UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset: Individual Conflict Events

The UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset is Uppsala University's most disaggregated dataset on organized violence, covering individual lethal events. Events are sufficiently fine-grained to be geo-coded to individual villages and disaggregated to single days. The dataset is documented in the Journal of Peace Research (2013) and a 2019 codebook from Uppsala University.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of conflict based on village-level geo-coding.
• Study temporal trends of organized violence based on daily event disaggregation.
• Model conflict intensity and frequency based on individual lethal events.
• Correlate conflict events with other socio-economic or environmental datasets based on precise location and date.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days.
• Dataset is documented by academic publications from Uppsala University.

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 University Department of Peace and Conflict Research (UCDP).

Collection Method

Likely compiled from news reports, official documents, and other conflict monitoring sources.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 11:04:54.027913; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Netherlands (from title), but likely includes events from other regions as UCDP is a global dataset.