UCDP Georeferenced Event Data: Individual Conflict Events in Eritrea

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence, with lethal incidents geo-coded to specific villages and dated to single days. The data is sourced from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and is documented in the Journal of Peace Research and a UCDP codebook. It was last updated on March 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Spatial analysis of conflict hotspots based on village-level geo-coding.
• Temporal trend modeling of violence based on daily event disaggregation.
• Validation of peace and conflict theories based on individual event data.
• Feature engineering for predictive models based on event location and timing.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days.
• Dataset is documented in peer-reviewed research (Journal of Peace Research, vol.50, no.4).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the source platform's focus.

Provenance

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.

Collection Method

Data collection method for organized violence events is referenced in UCDP publications.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 14:28:35.295157; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Eritrea.