East Timor Conflict Events: Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

This dataset tracks weekly totals of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in East Timor, aggregated by country-year and country-month. Maintained by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the records provide a longitudinal view of conflict trends through March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month event counts
• Comparing annual demonstration frequency against historical civilian-targeting rates
• Correlating aggregated conflict totals with national-level economic or social indicators

Strengths

• Aggregated by country-year and country-month for immediate longitudinal analysis
• Produced by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict monitoring
• Categorizes events into distinct types like civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents geospatial mapping of specific incident locations
• Full event-level data is gated behind external registration on the ACLED website

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary conflict event database

Time Range

Updated through March 2026

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

East Timor