UCDP Georeferenced Event Data for Laos: Individual Conflict Incidents

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset records individual events of organized violence with precise location and timing. Events are geo-coded down to the village level and have temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is published by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Modeling conflict intensity and spread based on georeferenced event locations.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of violence based on daily-level event data.
• Conducting sub-national risk assessments based on village-level incident mapping.
• Studying the micro-dynamics of organized violence based on disaggregated event records.

Strengths

• Data is disaggregated to the level of individual villages for spatial precision.
• Temporal duration is disaggregated to single, individual days.
• Dataset is based on the UCDP methodology, a standard in conflict research.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely compiled from news reports, humanitarian agencies, and other conflict monitoring sources.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:25:26.133552; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lao People's Democratic Republic.