UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset: Individual Conflict Events in the USA

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence, with each event defined as lethal violence occurring at a specific time and place. The data is sufficiently fine-grained to be geo-coded to the level of individual villages and disaggregated to single days. The dataset is published by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, with a last update recorded on 2026-04-03.

Use Cases

• Mapping the spatial distribution of conflict events based on village-level geo-coding.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of violence based on daily-level event disaggregation.
• Modeling the intensity and frequency of organized violence based on individual event records.
• Conducting sub-national or local-level conflict analysis based on fine-grained geographic data.

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.
• Data may reflect geographic or temporal bias inherent to the source collection methodology.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely compiled from news reports, NGO documents, and other sources tracking organized violence.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:27:10.946106; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States of America, with events geo-coded to village level.