Armed Conflict and Post-conflict Justice Dataset Background Narratives
Helga Malmin Binningsbø Cyanne E. Loyle
Centre for the Study of Civil War PRIO
September 2012
Binningsbø & Loyle Post-conflict justice: Background narratives
Introduction This document contains the background information for the coding of the post-conflict justice (PCJ) dataset.1 Each peace period (following an internal armed conflict) with at least one PCJ is included and covered with a brief description of the conflict, its termination and the PCJ, including the descriptive and specific variables, and the sources which the coding is based on. The peace periods are ordered alphabetically according to the location of the conflict. The number following the location in the heading refers to the pperid variable, an idenfitication variable unique to each individual post- conflict peace period. See the codebook2 for details on coding criteria.3 The main abbreviated sources are as follows: