Bahrain Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

A source of aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Bahrain, updated weekly by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The records are organized into country-year and country-month summaries, reflecting conflict trends through March 2026. It serves as a high-level monitoring tool for civil unrest and political instability within the country.

Use Cases

• Analyzing monthly trends in demonstration counts to identify periods of heightened civil unrest
• Comparing annual totals of civilian-targeting events against historical benchmarks
• Time-series forecasting of political violence frequency using country-month aggregates

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency ensures current monitoring of trends
• Standardized event categorization into political violence and demonstrations
• Produced by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict data collection

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents sub-national spatial analysis or daily event tracking
• Full event-level data is gated behind external registration on the ACLED website
• Geographic scope is restricted solely to Bahrain

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Time Range

Ending March 2026

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

Bahrain