U.S. Virgin Islands: Political Violence and Demonstration Event Counts

Aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in the U.S. Virgin Islands, maintained by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is updated weekly and structured into country-year and country-month summaries. This dataset provides a longitudinal view of conflict trends within the territory.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual trends in political violence using country-year aggregated counts
• Monitoring the frequency of civilian-targeting events to identify periods of increased risk
• Comparing monthly demonstration volumes to track civil unrest patterns

Strengths

• Standardized event categorization by ACLED including political violence and demonstrations
• Weekly update frequency ensures current monitoring of local conflict dynamics
• Aggregated by country-year and country-month for longitudinal comparison

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks specific incident coordinates and qualitative descriptions
• Full event-level data is restricted behind a mandatory registration wall on the ACLED website
• Geographic scope is restricted solely to the U.S. Virgin Islands

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

Virgin Islands, U.S.