Bangladesh Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence

A source of weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Bangladesh, aggregated by year and month. Produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the records are updated weekly to track conflict trends through March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month aggregation
• Comparing the frequency of civilian-targeting versus demonstrations over time
• Forecasting conflict intensity based on historical weekly event counts

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency ensures data reflects recent developments
• Standardized categorization into political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstrations
• Data originates from ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict monitoring

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks granular event-level details such as specific coordinates or actor names
• Access to full raw event data requires external registration on the ACLED website

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary conflict event monitoring

Freshness

Updated weekly

Geography

Bangladesh