The International Criminal Tribunals 

Database Website

I am gathering here the various data sets and codebooks used to analyze the decisions made by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.  I and my co-authors have used these data sets in various articles in the Journal of Peace Research, the International Criminal Law Review, Judicature, the Leiden Journal of International Law, Social Science Quarterly and various book chapters.  These data sets are works in progress and are generally updated fairly soon after the tribunals hand down new rulings.  If you have any questions or find any errors, please email me at meernik@unt.edu. 

For more information on ICTY & ICTR research try my vita or Dr. Kimi King's vita. Also, try The ICTY web site or The ICTR web site

International Criminal Tribunal Defendant Data Base Codebook

Note - this codebook contains the codes for defendant level data at the ICTR, ICTY and SCSL.

International Criminal Tribunal Defendant Data Base Spreadsheet

Please note that the data set is updated as the tribunals issue new decisions.  If you wish to replicate the analysis in a particular article, please contact me for the list of appropriate cases used in various studies.  

Thanks to Matt Kohler and Amber Aubone for their invaluable and excellent assistance on this project.