About the data
For a full description of the dataset and the coding decisions, download the article, data, and extra material in "download data."
Information presented below is taken from
Joakim Kreutz & Magda Lorena Cárdenas (2023, forthcoming) "The Women and Men that make peace: Introducing the Mediating individuals (M-ind) dataset", Journal of Peace Research.
M-ind data contains information about:
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1,080 unique individual mediators
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1,832 unique mediation appointments
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552 conflict dyad-years of mediation
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Total coverage of 1,831 conflict dyad-years of intrastate armed conflict and lethal militarized interstate disputes
Who appoints mediators?
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States (889 mediation appointments)
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Intergovernmental Organizations (560)
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Local civil society (184)
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Prominent individuals and experts (136)
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International non-governmental organizations (62)
