UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset: Individual Conflict Events in Sierra Leone

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence in Sierra Leone. Events are geo-coded down to the village level and have temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is published by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Predicting conflict hotspots based on georeferenced event locations.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of violence based on daily-level event data.
• Training models for event classification based on descriptions of organized violence.
• Conducting spatial-temporal analysis of conflict dynamics at a granular scale.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded 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 focus on Sierra Leone.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data collection and coding of individual events of organized violence, as described in the referenced journal articles.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:26:15.533833; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sierra Leone