Data on Security Council Decision-Making

This page lists 59 datasets on decision-making in the UN Security Council, and a few on the General Assembly. Many can be joined to the vetoes data by country, year, conflict or UN document symbol.

Votes and vetoes

Consensus and satisfaction in Council decision-making Uziel and Cardoso, Dados 69(2), 2026Data measuring how far members' preferences are reflected in unanimous Council decisions.
Security Council vetoes since 1946 UN DPPA, UN Peace and Security Data HubThe official list of vetoes since 1946, including those on amendments and procedural questions, with agenda item and topic. This dataset builds on it.1946–present
Security Council voting data for adopted resolutions UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library, UN Peace and Security Data HubEach member's vote on every adopted resolution; failed drafts are not included.1946–2026 · Member state × adopted resolution
UN Security Council votes World Politics Data Lab, GitHub repositoryYearly counts of adopted resolutions, vetoes, meetings and Chapter VII resolutions to 2021, and meeting outcomes from 1992 to 2022.1946–2022 · Year; meeting
UN Voting Incidence and Coincidence (Diplometrics) Moyer and others, Pardee Center, University of DenverVotes and bilateral voting-coincidence scores for the General Assembly, Security Council and Human Rights Council.1946–2025 · Vote; country-pair-year
UNSCR open data unscr.com, Website downloadCSV and JSON files of all adopted resolutions with vote counts, topics, cross-references and country-level votes.1946–2025 · Resolution; country × resolution vote
Voting records of the Security Council UN DPPA, UN Peace and Security Data HubVotes of each Council member on draft resolutions put to a vote, with outcome, agenda item, meeting record and topic.1992–present · Draft resolution put to a vote

Resolutions and drafts

Co-penholder selection Knapp, Review of International Organizations, 2025Data on co-penholder selection and the outcomes of Council draft resolutions.Draft resolution
Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council (CR-UNSC) Fobbe, Gasbarri and Ridi, Zenodo, 2026Texts of resolutions in six languages, with English drafts, meeting records, votes by state and citation network.1946–2026 · Adopted resolution
Council resolutions and peace processes Hauenstein and Joshi, International Studies Quarterly 64(4), 2020Council resolutions linked to peace agreement implementation after civil conflict.Resolution; peace process
Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset (IPOD) Lundgren, Squatrito, Sommerer and Tallberg, Review of International Organizations 19(1), 2024About 37,000 policy acts of 13 international organizations, including the resolutions and presidential statements of the Security Council.1980–2015 · Policy act
Presidential statements of the Security Council UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library, UN Peace and Security Data HubList of Security Council presidential statements with metadata, compiled by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.1946–2023 · Presidential statement
Resolutions and agenda items Pires, Harvard Dataverse, 2024All adopted resolutions with subject and agenda items assigned manually following the Repertoire.Adopted resolution
Resolutions and decisions of the Security Council UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library, UN Peace and Security Data HubMetadata list of Security Council resolutions and decisions compiled by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.1946–2024 · Resolution/decision
The language of responsibility in Council resolutions Bethke, Haass and Niemann, International Studies Quarterly 68(2), 2024Corpus of resolution texts used to measure how the Council assigns responsibility.1946–2020 · Resolution
UN Security Council Resolution Authors (UNSCRA) Knapp, Journal of Peace Research 62(6), 2025Sponsors (1990–2023) and lead negotiators (2008–2023) of 2,179 draft resolutions, adopted or not.1990–2023 · Draft resolution
UNBench Liang and others, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026Benchmark built from Council drafts, co-sponsors, votes and statements for testing language models.1994–2024 · Draft resolution; vote; statement
United Nations Conflict Resolutions (UNCR) Benson and Tucker, Journal of Conflict Resolution 66(3), 2022Resolutions adopted during UCDP/PRIO civil conflicts and their content, at several units of analysis.1946–2015 · Resolution; conflict-month/year
UNRESO resolution corpus Scherzinger, International Relations, 2022Resolution corpus with meeting (S/PV) identifiers for merging with speech data, used to study Chapter VII authorizations.1995–2017 · Resolution
Weapons and ammunition in Council resolutions UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, UN Peace and Security Data HubParagraphs of resolutions containing weapons and ammunition management language, classified by resolution type and category.2003–2025 · Resolution paragraph

Mandates and sanctions

Council oversight of peace operations Allen and Yuen, International Studies Quarterly, 2014Data on variation in mandate flexibility and Council oversight across UN peacekeeping missions.Mission
Mandate components of field missions UN DPPA, UN Peace and Security Data HubMandates of peace operations and special political missions coded into 21 components from Council decisions.2018–present · Mission mandate
Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Di Salvatore, Lundgren, Oksamytna and Smidt, Journal of Conflict Resolution 66(4–5), 2022Tasks and their wording in the Council resolutions mandating 27 UN peace operations in Africa.1991–2017 · Mission-resolution-task
Targeted Sanctions Consortium (TSC) database Biersteker, Eckert and Tourinho, Graduate Institute GenevaCoded UN targeted sanctions regimes and episodes, their purposes, types and effectiveness.1991–2013 · Sanctions episode
UN Peace Mission Mandates (UNPMM) UN DPPA and DPO, UN Peace and Security Data HubMandate tasks of UN peace missions, with reference to the text of the Council resolutions.1948–2023 · Mandate task
United Nations Peacekeeping Resolutions (UNPR) Benson and Tucker, Journal of Conflict Resolution 66(3), 2022Council resolutions on peacekeeping operations in civil conflicts and their content.Resolution

Debates and speeches

Council debates on Syria Medzihorsky, Popovic and Jenne, Research & Politics, 2017Council speeches on the Syrian civil war scaled by rhetorical position.2011–2016 · Speech
Explanations of Votes Sundström, Lundgren and Klamberg, International Studies Perspectives 27(1), 2026Members' arguments about threats to the peace and norm violations in explanations of votes and in resolutions. The data are supplementary files to the article.1989–2019
Named entities in the UNSC Debates corpus (UNSC-NE) Glaser, Patz and Stede, Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 35, 2022Named-entity annotations linked to Wikidata for the UN Security Council Debates corpus.1992–2023 · Speech (entity annotations)
Naming and shaming armed groups Brandt and Kotajoki, International Organization 80(2), 2026Admonishments of states and non-state armed groups in Council speeches, linked to UCDP actors.1995–2016 · Admonishment in a Council speech
Rhetorical signals and unanimity Scherzinger, International Studies Quarterly 70(3), 2026Speech and resolution data used to study how rhetorical signals in public debates relate to unanimous adoption.Speech; resolution
Speech–resolution alignment Knapp, Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2026Similarity between 15,000 state speeches on humanitarian emergencies and the resolutions adopted, used to measure influence.1990–2019 · Speech; resolution
The UN Security Council Debates Schoenfeld, Eckhard, Patz, van Meegdenburg and Pires, Harvard Dataverse, 2025106,302 speeches from 6,233 meeting records, with speaker, affiliation, role and meeting topic.1992–2023 · Speech
The UNSC Meetings and Speeches Sakamoto, Matsuoka and Ito, Journal of Peace Research 63(4), 2026Records of over 10,600 formal meetings and transcripts of more than 180,000 speeches, with speaker, affiliation and order.1946–2026 · Meeting; speech
UN sanctions in Council debates Peez and Scherzinger, Harvard DataverseCouncil speeches coded with language models for positions on UN sanctions.Speech
UNSC Peace-related Speeches (UNSCPeaS) Badache, Hellmüller and Salaymeh, Contemporary Security Policy, 2022Peace-related speeches in the Council by the P5, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey.1991–2020 · Speech

Agenda and attention

Agenda-setting speed on civil conflicts Binder and Golub, International Studies Quarterly 64(2), 2020Time from civil conflict onset to entry on the Council's agenda, with presidency data.Civil conflict
Climate, peace and security in Council decisions UN DPPA, UN Peace and Security Data HubParagraphs on climate and security in Council resolutions and presidential statements. Meetings and Arria-formula meetings on the subject are in separate files on the same portal.2008–present · Decision paragraph
Communications to the Council invoking Article 51 UN DPPA, UN Peace and Security Data HubLetters to the Council that explicitly invoke Article 51 self-defence, compiled for the Repertoire.1990–present · Communication (letter) to the Council
Council action in self-determination disputes Beardsley, Cunningham and White, British Journal of Political Science 47(3), 2017Council engagement with self-determination disputes before they escalate to civil war.Self-determination dispute
Council activity, 1994–2013 Allen and Yuen, Journal of Peace Research 57(5), 2020Monthly Council activity on agenda items: meetings, consultations, resolutions and presidential statements.1994–2013 · Agenda item × month
Council responses to humanitarian crises Binder, Journal of Peace Research 52(6), 2015Council responses to humanitarian crises, used to explain selective intervention.1991–2004 · Humanitarian crisis
Protection of civilians in Council decisions UN DPPA, UN Peace and Security Data HubProvisions in resolutions and presidential statements containing curated protection-of-civilians keywords, prepared for the Repertoire.1999–present · Provision in a Council decision
Selective Attention Lundgren and Klamberg, British Journal of Political Science 53(3), 2023Which armed conflicts the Council took up in formal meetings, by conflict and year.1989–2019 · Conflict × year
UN involvement in international crises Beardsley and Schmidt, International Studies Quarterly 56(1), 2012UN involvement in ICB international crises, compared with P5 interests.1945–2002 · International crisis
Women, peace and security in Council decisions UN DPPA, UN Peace and Security Data HubProvisions in resolutions and presidential statements containing curated Women, Peace and Security keywords, prepared for the Repertoire.2000–present · Provision in a Council decision

Membership and subsidiary bodies

Council membership and General Assembly voting Hwang, Sanford and Lee, International Interactions, 2015Replication data linking temporary Council membership to General Assembly voting.Country × year
Council membership and militarized disputes Smith and Vreeland, International Interactions 49(4), 2023Council membership merged with militarized dispute data, including election probabilities.Country × year
Council subsidiary bodies Lugg, Lansdale and Carcelli, International Studies Quarterly 68(2), 2024Proposed and created Council subsidiary bodies with their purpose and design.1972–2020 · Subsidiary body (proposed or created)
Regional group memberships on the Security Council UN DPPA, UN Peace and Security Data HubSummary of whether each member state served on the Council as part of a given regional group.1946–present · Member state
Security Council membership UN DPPA, UN Peace and Security Data HubMembership of the Security Council by member state and year.1946–2022 · Member state × year
Security Council presidencies held by elected members UN DPPA, UN Peace and Security Data HubCouncil presidencies held by elected members, broken down by terms served; permanent members excluded.1946–present · Elected member term
Security Council representatives and presidents UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library, UN Digital LibraryNames, salutations, member states and functions of representatives to the Council and Council presidents.1946–2026 · Individual representative

General Assembly

General Assembly ideal points Bailey, Strezhnev and Voeten, Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(2), 2017Ideal points and dyadic agreement scores estimated from General Assembly roll-call votes.1946–2025 · Country × session
General Assembly resolutions text Mesquita and Pires, Harvard DataverseTexts and metadata of General Assembly resolutions, with their citation network.1946–2019 · Resolution
General Assembly sponsorship Seabra and Mesquita, Harvard DataverseDraft resolutions in the General Assembly and their sponsors.2000–2020 · Draft resolution
General Assembly voting data UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library, UN Digital LibraryEach member's vote on every adopted General Assembly resolution.1946–2025 · Member state × adopted resolution
UN General Assembly Decision-Making (UNGA-DM) Fjelstul, Hug and Kilby, University of GenevaPlenary decisions of the Assembly, including failed drafts and adoptions without a vote, with country votes.1946–2023 · Plenary decision; country vote
UN General Debate Corpus (UNGDC) Jankin, Baturo and Dasandi, Journal of Peace Research 62(4), 2025Texts of all country statements in the annual UN General Assembly General Debate.1946–2025 · Country-session speech