UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset: Conflict Events in Peru

The UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset provides disaggregated data on individual events of organized violence. It is the Uppsala Conflict Data Program's most detailed dataset, with events geo-coded to village level and temporal durations specified to single days. The dataset is documented in the Journal of Peace Research and by Uppsala University.

Use Cases

• Modeling spatial patterns of conflict based on village-level geo-coding.
• Analyzing temporal trends in organized violence based on daily event durations.
• Conducting sub-national conflict risk assessments based on disaggregated event data.
• Validating or supplementing peace and conflict research based on the UCDP methodology.

Strengths

• Events are disaggregated to the level of individual villages, as stated in the description.
• Temporal durations are specified to single, individual days.
• Dataset is documented in peer-reviewed research (Journal of Peace Research, vol.50, no.4).

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 source's collection methodology.

Provenance

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Uppsala University.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:26:03.273364; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Peru.