Panama Conflict Events: Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstration Counts

Aggregated counts of political violence, civilian targeting, and demonstration events in Panama are provided weekly by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is structured into country-year and country-month summaries to track conflict trends through March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual trends in 'political violence' event counts
• Comparing 'civilian-targeting' frequency against 'demonstration' totals by month
• Time-series forecasting of conflict intensity using 'country-month' aggregates

Strengths

• Expert-curated by ACLED
• Weekly update frequency
• Categorized by specific event types like civilian-targeting

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks granular event-level data
• Geographically restricted to Panama
• Requires external registration for full dataset access

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary conflict event database

Freshness

Updated weekly; current through March 2026.

Geography

Panama