Sri Lanka Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence Data

A source of weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Sri Lanka, produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month event counts
• Comparing annual frequencies of civilian-targeting incidents in Sri Lanka
• Monitoring the volume of demonstration events over time

Strengths

• Produced by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict monitoring
• Weekly update frequency ensures current trend monitoring
• Distinguishes between political violence and civilian-targeting events

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents sub-national geospatial analysis
• Full event-level data is gated behind external registration

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary conflict event database

Freshness

Weekly updates

Geography

Sri Lanka