British Indian Ocean Territory: Aggregated Political Violence and Conflict Events

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides this dataset of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration event counts for the British Indian Ocean Territory. The data is structured as weekly updates aggregated into country-year and country-month summaries. It tracks specific categories of conflict and unrest within this specific geographic jurisdiction.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month aggregation totals
• Comparing annual frequencies of demonstrations against civilian-targeting event counts
• Monitoring conflict intensity shifts within the British Indian Ocean Territory over multi-year periods

Strengths

• Produced by ACLED, a specialized authority in conflict monitoring
• Includes distinct categories for civilian-targeting and demonstrations
• Provides longitudinal data aggregated by month and year

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents granular analysis of specific incidents
• Extremely small geographic scope likely results in sparse data or many zero-count periods
• Full event-level data requires external registration and API access

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the ACLED primary event database and API

Freshness

Updated weekly as per the source description.

Geography

British Indian Ocean Territory