Canada Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregates of Political Violence

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Canada. This dataset aggregates reports into country-year and country-month summaries to track domestic unrest and conflict trends.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in civilian-targeting events across different years
• Comparing the frequency of demonstrations versus political violence incidents
• Statistical modeling of monthly civil unrest patterns in Canada

Strengths

• Expert-categorized event types including civilian-targeting
• Weekly update frequency
• Standardized ACLED methodology for conflict classification

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents spatial analysis below the national level
• Requires external registration for granular event-level data

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Expert-coded aggregation of reported conflict events

Freshness

Updated weekly as per ACLED reporting cycles.

Geography

Canada