UCDP Georeferenced Event Data for Papua New Guinea

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence in Papua New Guinea. Events are geo-coded to the village level and have temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is sourced from Uppsala University's Department of Peace and Conflict Research and is licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO.

Use Cases

• Analyzing spatial patterns of conflict based on village-level geo-coding.
• Modeling temporal dynamics of violence based on daily event disaggregation.
• Conducting sub-national risk assessments based on georeferenced event locations.
• Validating or supplementing other conflict datasets based on high-resolution UCDP data.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days.
• Dataset is UCDP's most disaggregated dataset for organized violence.

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 bias inherent to the UCDP collection methodology for Papua New Guinea.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely compiled from news reports, NGO documents, and other sources documenting organized violence.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:26:01.243380; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Papua New Guinea.