UCDP Georeferenced Event Data for Niger: Individual Conflict Events

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence in Niger. 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 and was last updated on April 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Predicting conflict hotspots based on georeferenced event locations.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of violence based on daily-level event data.
• Training models for event classification using features of organized violence.
• Conducting spatial analysis of conflict at the village-level granularity.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days.
• Dataset is described as UCDP's most disaggregated dataset.
• Based on peer-reviewed methodology published in the Journal of Peace Research.

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/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 and coding methodology described in 'UCDP GED Codebook' and 'Introducing the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset'.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04 03 14:25:53.063999; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Niger