The Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions (ATOP) project provides data regarding the content of military alliance agreements signed by all countries of the world between 1815 and 2018.

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project.

The CIRI Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights for 202 countries, annually from 1981-2011.

Quantitative data project for topics in International Relations including militarized disputes, war, and territorial changes.

Today the GDELT Project consists of over a quarter-billion event records in over 300 categories covering the entire world from 1979 to present, along with a massive network diagram connecting every person, organization, location, theme and emotion.

From the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

The Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) creates the GPI using data collected by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The index consists of 23 indicators from a variety of respected sources.

Open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970-present.

Center for Systemic Peace datasets covering political violence, displaced populations, state failure, terrorist bombings, and more. Copyright applies to data if used, reproduced, or redistributed.

Covering 1918 to 2017, dataset consists of 487 crises and 1,078 crisis actors.

MAR project provides data on politically active communal groups of at least 500,000 people. Monitors status and conflict.

Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project is a multi-level data collection effort that catalogues major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns around the globe from 1900-2019

From the University of Notre Dame, this database compiles all comprehensive peace agreements and their implementations created between 1989 to 2012.

"Global dataset that describes, in quantitative terms, the deliberate killing of non-combatant civilians in the context of a wider political conflict." Coverage 1995-2020.

The PTS meas­ures levels of polit­ic­al vi­ol­ence and ter­ror that a coun­try ex­per­i­ences in a par­tic­u­lar year based on a 5-level “ter­ror scale” ori­gin­ally de­veloped by Free­dom House. Coverage: 1976-2019.

Over 40,000 events from 1968-2009. Free for research and analysis. If using the data in your research, you must attribute to RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents.

The Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) includes protests, riots, strikes, inter-communal conflict, government violence against civilians, and other forms of social conflict not systematically tracked in other conflict datasets. SCAD currently includes information social conflicts from 1990-2017, covering all of Africa and now also Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.

The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism maintains 19 data collections covering terrorism, public opinion, predictors of activism and radicalism and other topics.

The UCDP continually collects data on armed conflict.

From the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), depicts democratic trends at the country, regional and global levels across a broad range of different attributes of democracy from 1975–2020.
The indices present data for 158 countries around the world and consist of 5 main democracy attributes and 16 subattribute scores per country per year.

The Polity conceptual scheme is unique in that it examines concomitant qualities of democratic and autocratic authority in governing institutions, rather than discreet and mutually exclusive forms of governance. This perspective envisions a spectrum of governing authority that spans from fully institutionalized autocracies through mixed, or incoherent, authority regimes (termed "anocracies") to fully institutionalized democracies. Scroll down the page to find the data downloads.

From the University of Gothenburg's QoG Institute. It seeks to measure "trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions."

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. We provide a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. The V-Dem project distinguishes between seven high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, egalitarian, majoritarian and consensual, and collects data to measure these principles.

Covering 139 countries and jurisdictions, the Index relies on national surveys of more than 138,000 households and 4,200 legal practitioners and experts to measure how the rule of law is experienced and perceived worldwide.

From the World Bank, the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for over 200 countries and territories over the period 1996–2020, for six dimensions of governance.

An open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data.

The ISSP is a cross-national collaboration programme conducting annual surveys on diverse topics relevant to social sciences.

Survey of 100 countries gathering information on economic development, democratization, religion, gender, well-being, and other topics. Coverage 1981-2014.