UCDP GED: Georeferenced Conflict Events in Kenya

UCDP's Georeferenced Event Dataset provides individual events of organized violence, geo-coded to the village level and temporally disaggregated to single days. The dataset is based on research from Uppsala University and is licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO. It was last updated on 2026-04-03.

Use Cases

• Model conflict intensity and spread based on georeferenced event locations.
• Analyze temporal patterns of violence based on daily-duration events.
• Conduct sub-national or village-level risk assessments based on fine-grained geo-coding.
• Validate or train predictive models for organized violence based on individual event data.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal duration is disaggregated to single, individual days.
• Dataset is based on peer-reviewed research from the Journal of Peace Research.

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's coverage of Kenya.

Provenance

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Uppsala University.

Collection Method

Data collection and coding methodology described in the UCDP GED Codebook.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:25:22.283775; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kenya.