United States Conflict Events: Aggregated Weekly Incident Counts

Aggregated weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in the United States, produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries to track domestic conflict trends over time.

Use Cases

• Time-series forecasting of 'political violence' frequency in the US
• Correlation analysis between 'demonstration events' and monthly socio-political factors
• Monitoring trends in 'civilian-targeting' incidents over multiple years

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Authoritative data from ACLED
• Categorized by specific event types like civilian-targeting

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents sub-national spatial analysis
• Requires external registration for full event-level data

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary event tracking database

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

United States