Terror-listing and mediation in armed conflict

Over the last decades, states and international organizations have significantly strengthened their ability to provide and support diplomatic conflict resolution, such as mediation. At the same time, they have become increasingly willing to blacklist armed groups, labeling them terrorists and imposing various forms of sanctions. There is a suspicion that these two strategies are conflictual – that terror-listing complicates or crowds out diplomatic conflict resolution – but a lack of data has precluded systematic tests. To enable investigation into how terror-listing affects mediation, this project will create the first systematic dataset on proscribed armed actors. The dataset will cover all armed actors in the 1945-2020 period.