UCDP Georeferenced Event Data: Nicaragua Conflict Events

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset on organized violence, covering individual lethal events in Nicaragua. Events are geo-coded to the village level and have temporal durations disaggregated to single days, as described in the Journal of Peace Research. The dataset is provided by HDX 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 events disaggregated to single days.
• Modeling and predicting organized violence based on fine-grained event data.
• Cross-referencing conflict events with other socio-economic or political datasets.

Strengths

• Data is at the most disaggregated level, with events recorded individually.
• 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.
• Data may reflect geographic or temporal bias inherent to the source collection.

Provenance

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.

Collection Method

Data collection methodology referenced in the Journal of Peace Research (Sundberg & Melander, 2013) and the UCDP GED Codebook (Högbladh, 2019).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:25:52.105513; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nicaragua.