Norfolk Island Conflict Events: Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides this weekly updated dataset tracking political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Norfolk Island. The data is aggregated into country-year and country-month files to summarize conflict trends over time. It serves as a high-level statistical summary of reported unrest and violence within the territory.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of political violence using country-year event counts
• Monitoring civilian-targeting frequency over country-month intervals
• Comparing demonstration volumes against historical political periods in Norfolk Island

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency ensures current monitoring
• Data provided by ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring organization
• Categorized by specific event types including civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents granular spatial or tactical analysis of individual incidents
• Requires external registration on the ACLED website for access to full event-level data
• Small geographic scope of Norfolk Island likely results in very low event counts or sparse data

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary conflict monitoring database

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

Norfolk Island