Tokelau Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence Counts

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian targeting, and demonstration events in Tokelau. This XLSX dataset organizes conflict data into country-year and country-month summaries to track security trends over time.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month aggregation
• Comparing annual civilian-targeting event counts via country-year summaries
• Monitoring the frequency of demonstration events in Tokelau over time

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Standardized aggregation by country-year and country-month
• Produced by ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring organization

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks specific event coordinates and individual actor names
• Small geographic scope limited to Tokelau
• Requires external registration for access to the full event-level API

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary conflict event monitoring and reporting system.

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

Tokelau