Democratic Republic of the Congo Conflict Events Geocoded to Village Level

Democratic Republic of the Congo conflict data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) Georeferenced Event Dataset. The dataset covers individual events of organized violence, with temporal durations disaggregated to single days. It is published under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license and was last updated on March 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling conflict intensity and spread based on georeferenced event locations.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of violence based on daily-level event disaggregation.
• Mapping conflict hotspots at the village level based on geo-coding capabilities.
• Studying the relationship between organized violence and other socio-political factors.

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 organized violence.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) Georeferenced Event Dataset.

Collection Method

Likely contains events of organized violence recorded from news reports, NGO documents, and other sources.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 14:28:29.336773; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Democratic Republic of the Congo.