UCDP Georeferenced Event Data: Disaggregated Conflict Events in Saudi Arabia

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset records individual events of organized violence with precise location and timing. The data is sufficiently fine-grained to be geo-coded to the village level and disaggregated to single days. It is sourced from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and last updated on 2026-04-03.

Use Cases

• Predicting conflict escalation based on event location and temporal granularity.
• Mapping spatial patterns of organized violence based on village-level geo-coding.
• Analyzing temporal trends in lethal violence based on daily event disaggregation.
• Training models for early warning systems based on georeferenced 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 for organized violence.
• License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO, allowing for reuse with attribution.

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 or temporal bias inherent to the source collection.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

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

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:26:12.444797; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Saudi Arabia.