Lie, Tove GreteBinningsbø, Helga MalminGates, Scott2012-06-042012-06-042007-04https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7007No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict justice efforts (trials, purges, reparation to victims, and truth commissions) as well as processes associated with abstaining from post-conflict justice (amnesty and exile). It investigates the long-term effects of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace after conflict. It uses a Cox proportional hazard model to analyze the influence of the various types of post-conflict justice on the length of the peace period before the recurrence of violent conflict. Post-conflict trials as well as other types of justice do lead to a more durable peace in democratic as well as non-democratic societies, but the results are weak and are therefore difficult to generalize. Forms of non-retributive justice (that is, reparations to victims and truth commissions), however, are strongly associated with the duration of peace in democratic societies, but are not significant for non-democratic societies. Amnesty tends to be destabilizing and generally associated with shorter peace duration, but exile tends to lead to a more durable peace.CC BY 3.0 IGOACCOUNTABILITYAMNESTIESAMNESTYARMED CONFLICTARMED CONFLICTSAUTOCRACY SCORECAUSE OF CONFLICTCIVIL CONFLICTCIVIL WARCIVIL WARSCONFLICTSCRIMECRIMESDEMOCRACY SCOREDETERRENCEDISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICEDURATION OF PEACEETHNIC CLEANSINGHAZARD MODELHIGH RISKHUMAN RIGHTSHUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONSIDEASINTENSITY OF CONFLICTINTERNATIONAL LAWINTERNATIONAL RELATIONSLATIN AMERICANLAWSLEADERSHIPMASSACRESPARAMILITARY GROUPSPEACE AGREEMENTSPEACE BUILDINGPEACE PERIODPEACE PERIODSPEACE PROCESSPEACEBUILDINGPOLITICAL VIOLENCEPOST-CONFLICTPOST-CONFLICT GOVERNMENTPOST-CONFLICT PEACEPOST-CONFLICT PERIODPOST-CONFLICT SOCIETIESPOST-CONFLICT SOCIETYPRIVATE JUSTICEPROSECUTIONPUNISHMENTREBELLIONRECONCILIATIONREPRESSIONRISK OF CONFLICTSOCIAL RELATIONSTORTURETREATIESTRIALSVICTIMSVIOLENT CONFLICTWEAPONSWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-4191