About PIPS Database

Conflict, insecurity and violence are among the core thematic areas that the Pak Institute for Peace Studies focuses in its research-and-analysis and policy advocacy initiatives for peace and stability in Pakistan and wider region. When PIPS started to work as an independent research institute in last quarter of 2005, it found that available data consisted of day-to-day media reports of conflicts and incidents of violence and terrorism etc. in Pakistan or literature coming from Western sources, which lacked the local context and understanding. Most of the western and local research on conflict and insecurity in Pakistan also did not have strong empirical base due to increased focus on theoretical perspective and less reliance on field work and firsthand data.

Since 2006, the PIPS has been striving to develop a comprehensive database on conflict and security issues at national level through continuous monitoring and documentation of each and every incident happening in the country on daily basis, maintaining diversified info tracks of terrorist and insurgent attacks, sectarian related terrorism, ethno-political violence, cross-border attacks, operational attacks by the security forces, kidnappings, and search and arrest operations. Each incident is given special attention with strong follow up and liaison with correspondents in conflict zones, along with regularly updated profiles and archives, and after about six years’ rigorous exercise the PIPS launched this online database web portal as a baseline data and permanent source of independent information to map militant and security landscape of Pakistan and carry out research and analysis on issues related to conflict, insecurity, violence and terrorism etc.

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