Benin Conflict Events: Georeferenced and Temporally Disaggregated Violence Data

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence in Benin. Events are geo-coded to the village level and have temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is based on research from Uppsala University and is licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO.

Use Cases

• Model conflict patterns and escalation based on georeferenced event locations.
• Analyze temporal trends in organized violence based on daily-level event data.
• Conduct spatial risk assessments for villages or regions based on historical violence events.
• Validate or augment peace and conflict theories with fine-grained empirical data.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days.
• Dataset is UCDP's most disaggregated dataset for conflict events.
• Based on peer-reviewed methodology from the Journal of Peace Research.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or temporal bias inherent to the source collection.

Provenance

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Uppsala University.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from news reports, NGO dispatches, and other conflict monitoring sources.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 14:27:51.793744; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Benin.