Rwanda Conflict Events: Georeferenced and Day-Level Violence Data

Rwanda conflict data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program's most disaggregated dataset, covering individual events of organized violence. The dataset is geo-coded down to village level and disaggregated to single days, as described in the Journal of Peace Research. It was last updated on 2026-04 03.

Use Cases

• Modeling conflict intensity and spread based on georeferenced event locations.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of violence based on day-level event durations.
• Conducting sub-national risk assessments based on village-level geographic precision.
• Validating or supplementing peace and conflict research theories with empirical event data.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days.
• Dataset is described as UCDP's most disaggregated dataset.
• License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO, permitting open use with attribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

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

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:26:11.527382; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rwanda.