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Title:The UN Security Council debates 1995-2017

Abstract: This paper presents a new dataset containing 65,393 speeches held in the public meetings of the UN Security Council (UNSC) between 1995 and 2017. The dataset is based on publicly available meeting transcripts with the S/PV document symbol and includes the full substance of individual speeches as well as automatically extracted and manually corrected metadata on the speaker, the position of the speech in the sequence of speeches of a meeting, and the date of the speech. After contextualizing the dataset in recent research on the UNSC, the paper presents descriptive statistics on UNSC meetings and speeches that characterize the period covered by the dataset. Data highlight the extensive presence of the UN bureaucracy in UNSC meetings as well as an emerging trend towards more lengthy open UNSC debates. These open debates cover key issues that have emerged only during the period that is covered by the dataset, for example the debates relating to Women, Peace and Security or Climate-related Disasters.
Comments: The UN Security Council Debates corpus is available online at this https URL
Subjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
Cite as: arXiv:1906.10969 [cs.DL]
  (or arXiv:1906.10969v1 [cs.DL] for this version)

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From: Mirco Schönfeld [view email]
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