Greenland Conflict Events: Aggregated Weekly Political Violence Totals

Aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Greenland are provided on a weekly basis. Produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries. The records track conflict trends through March 2026.

Use Cases

• Tracking the frequency of civilian-targeting events using monthly aggregated totals
• Comparing annual political violence counts across different years in Greenland
• Analyzing the seasonality of demonstration events using country-month records

Strengths

• Aggregated by country-year and country-month for standardized temporal analysis
• Categorizes events into specific types including civilian-targeting and demonstrations
• Maintained by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict data

Limitations

• Lacks granular event-level data such as specific coordinates or actor names
• Requires external registration on the ACLED website for full data access
• Limited to Greenland, resulting in a small sample size compared to global datasets

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from primary conflict event monitoring

Freshness

Updated weekly

Geography

Greenland