UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset: Individual Conflict Events

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence, geo-coded down to the village level with temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is documented in the Journal of Peace Research and a codebook from Uppsala University. It is published under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Spatial analysis of conflict patterns based on village-level geo-coding.
• Temporal analysis of violence trends based on daily event disaggregation.
• Modeling and predicting organized violence based on fine-grained event data.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days.

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 documents, and other sources tracking organized violence.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:25:51.241453; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Focus on the Netherlands (Kingdom of the), but the description suggests a global scope for the UCDP dataset.