UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset for Eswatini

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence in the Kingdom of Eswatini. Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages and temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is published by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.

Use Cases

• Analyzing spatial patterns of conflict based on village-level geo-coding.
• Studying temporal trends of lethal violence based on daily event disaggregation.
• Mapping conflict intensity and event types based on the concept of organized violence.
• Conducting sub-national comparative studies based on fine-grained geographic data.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days.
• The dataset is UCDP's most disaggregated dataset for conflict events.

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.

Provenance

Source

Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research (UCDP)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 11:05:00.857796; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kingdom of Eswatini