United Kingdom Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence Totals

Aggregated weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in the United Kingdom, curated by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is structured into country-year and country-month summaries and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in UK demonstrations using country-month totals
• Comparing annual frequencies of civilian-targeting incidents
• Monitoring shifts in political violence levels over multi-year periods

Strengths

• Data sourced from ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring organization
• Distinguishes between political violence and civilian-targeting events
• Provides consistent temporal aggregations for longitudinal study

Limitations

• Lack of granular event data restricts sub-national spatial analysis
• Requires registration on the ACLED platform for access to the full underlying event database

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Weekly updates

Geography

United Kingdom