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Words of Power: Introducing a Comprehensive Corpus of UN Security Council Resolutions

Authors: Fobbe, Seán; Gasbarri, Lorenzo; Ridi, Niccolò;

Words of Power: Introducing a Comprehensive Corpus of UN Security Council Resolutions

Abstract

Abstract We introduce the Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council (CR-UNSC), a novel international legal-political dataset containing texts and metadata for all resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) from resolution 1 (1946) through resolution 2722 (2024), as published by the UN Digital Library (UNDL). The dataset provides full resolution texts in all six official UN languages, draft texts and full meeting records in English, as well as dozens of metadata variables, for a grand total of 82 variables in structured tabular CSV format, accompanied by extensive narrative documentation. In addition to the main tabular dataset the CR-UNSC is accompanied by specialized variants for network analysis and bibliography management. The network analysis variant of the dataset offers citation network data in GraphML format containing all full-text citations to UN Security Council and to UN General Assembly resolutions associated with 54 node-level metadata variables and citation counts. The bibliography management variant reproduces a significant part of the dataset metadata in BibTeX format ready for import into widely used reference managers such as Zotero, Jabref, Citavi and Endnote. The bibliographic database ensures inclusive access to the dataset for traditional researchers with no expertise in data analysis. The computational workflow is engineered as a fully automated end-to-end extract-transform-load (ETL) data pipeline with citation analysis and NLP components, unit tests and extensive reporting. The declarative workflow is fault-tolerant, resumable and stores intermediate results in over one hundred individual checkpoints. The code is published open source under the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3). We intend to update the corpus at least once per year. The most recent version of the CR-UNSC corpus will always be available open access via Zenodo through its Concept DOI located at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7319783. Author Websites Seán Fobbe --- https://www.seanfobbe.com Lorenzo Gasbarri --- https://www.lorenzogasbarri.com/ Niccolò Ridi --- https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/niccolo-ridi

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United Nations, United Nations/legislation & jurisprudence, Natural language processing, International Relations, International law, United Nations/legislation & jurisprudence, International politics, Public international law, International conflict, Data Engineering, International organisation, International Law, United nations, International relations, International Peace and Security, United Nations/organization & administration, Legal text, Natural Language Processing, United Nations/organization & administration

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