UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset: Individual Conflict Events in Sweden

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence, geo-coded to the village level and temporally disaggregated to single days. The dataset is sourced from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and is documented in the Journal of Peace Research. It was last updated on 2026-04-03.

Use Cases

• Mapping conflict hotspots based on village-level geo-coding.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of violence based on daily event disaggregation.
• Modeling drivers of organized violence based on individual event data.
• Conducting sub-national conflict trend analysis based on georeferenced events.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days.
• Dataset is documented in peer-reviewed literature (Journal of Peace Research, 2013).

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 its focus on Sweden.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data collection method for organized violence events is not specified in the provided description.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the provided description.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:26:26.628089; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sweden.