UCDP Georeferenced Event Data: Individual Conflict Events in North Macedonia

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset records individual events of organized violence with precise location and timing. Events are geo-coded to the village level and have temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is based on research from Uppsala University and is licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO.

Use Cases

• Predicting conflict hotspots based on fine-grained geospatial and temporal event data.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of violence based on daily-level event durations.
• Conducting spatial analysis of organized violence at the village-level resolution.
• Training machine learning models for early warning systems using historical conflict event features.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded to the level of individual villages, enabling high-resolution spatial analysis.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days, providing precise timing data.
• Dataset is described as UCDP's most disaggregated dataset, suggesting a high level of detail.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its focus on North Macedonia.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data collection methodology referenced in the UCDP GED Codebook and associated journal publication.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:25:56.639178; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North Macedonia, with events geo-coded to the village level.