How States Use Amnesties in Peace Agreements

Abstract

This report summarizes the findings from a new dataset on Peace Agreement Amnesties.This dataset was created using the PA-X Peace Agreement database to identify peace agreements with amnesty provisions. It contains information on 120 peace agreements which express the parties’ commitment to offer amnesty in relation to internal armed conflicts from 1990 to 2024 in 47 countries.The analysis of this data reveals a number of key findings.