Christmas Island Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence Data

Aggregated weekly counts of political violence, civilian targeting, and demonstrations in Christmas Island provided by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries as of March 2026. It serves as a high-level monitoring tool for conflict trends in the territory.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual trends in political violence totals for Christmas Island
• Comparing civilian-targeting frequency against demonstration events over time
• Monitoring monthly fluctuations in conflict activity using country-month records

Strengths

• Sourced from ACLED, a primary authority in conflict monitoring
• Categorizes events into distinct types like civilian-targeting and demonstrations
• Weekly update frequency ensures recent data availability

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents granular spatial or actor-based analysis
• Likely low record count due to the small geographic size of Christmas Island
• Full event data requires external registration and API access

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary conflict event database

Time Range

Up to March 2026

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

Christmas Island