Laos Conflict Events: Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

Weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Laos, curated by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is structured into country-year and country-month summaries to track conflict trends over time.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual trends in political violence using country-year totals
• Monitoring monthly shifts in demonstration frequency
• Evaluating the prevalence of civilian-targeting incidents relative to other conflict types

Strengths

• Weekly update cycle
• Categorization by specific event types like civilian-targeting
• Data sourced from ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring entity

Limitations

• Aggregated format limits sub-national spatial analysis
• Full event-level data requires external registration and API access
• Small geographic scope limited to Laos

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

Laos