Malaysia Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Malaysia. This dataset organizes reported incidents into country-year and country-month summaries, updated through March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence counts across different years
• Correlating civilian-targeting event frequency with monthly socio-political changes
• Comparing the volume of demonstrations versus violent events in Malaysia

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Categorized by specific event types like civilian-targeting
• Curated by ACLED experts

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents granular spatial analysis
• Full event data requires external registration
• Unknown total record count

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Expert-curated aggregation of reported conflict events

Time Range

Up to March 2026

Freshness

Weekly updates.

Geography

Malaysia