Lesotho Conflict Events Georeferenced to Village and Day Level

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset on organized violence, with events geo-coded to individual villages and temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is sourced from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and was last updated on 2026-04-03. It is licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO.

Use Cases

• Predicting conflict hotspots based on fine-grained geospatial and temporal event data.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of organized violence at a daily resolution.
• Mapping the geographic distribution of violent incidents down to the village level.
• Conducting causal inference studies on conflict drivers using highly disaggregated event records.

Strengths

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

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, NGO records, and other sources documenting organized violence.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:25:28.373688; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lesotho.