UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset: Individual Conflict Events

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence, with events geo-coded down to the village level and temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is published by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and was last updated on 2026-04-03. It is licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO.

Use Cases

• Predicting conflict hotspots based on fine-grained geospatial and temporal event data.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of organized violence based on daily-duration events.
• Mapping violence at a local scale for humanitarian planning based on village-level geo-coding.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down 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.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely compiled from news reports, NGO records, and other sources documenting organized violence.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:27:10.154167; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.