UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset: Individual Conflict Events in Tanzania

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence occurring at a given time and place. Events are sufficiently fine-grained to be geo-coded down to the level of individual villages, with temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is maintained by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of conflict intensity based on geo-coded village-level locations.
• Study temporal trends and event frequency based on daily-level disaggregation.
• Model the relationship between organized violence and local socio-economic factors using precise event data.
• Visualize conflict hotspots and diffusion over time using the georeferenced event points.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages, offering high spatial precision.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days, providing high temporal resolution.
• The dataset is UCDP's most disaggregated dataset, indicating a high level of detail.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Freshness should be verified; the last metadata update was 2026-05-07.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data collection likely involves coding individual events of organized violence from source materials.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 11:04:50.547572

Geography

United Republic of Tanzania