Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Weekly Political Violence and Conflict Event Counts

Weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands are provided by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of political violence frequency over time using country-month aggregations
• Comparative study of civilian-targeting vs. demonstration event counts
• Long-term conflict intensity mapping using country-year totals

Strengths

• Produced by ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring organization
• Provides longitudinal tracking via country-year and country-month aggregations
• Categorizes events into specific types such as civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents analysis of specific event locations or actors
• Requires external registration for granular event-level data
• Small geographic scope may result in low event frequency or zero-count periods

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from primary conflict event monitoring

Freshness

Updated weekly according to the source description.

Geography

Cocos (Keeling) Islands