UCDP Georeferenced Event Data: Zambia Conflict Events at Village and Daily Scale

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset records individual events of organized violence with precise location and timing. Events are geo-coded to the level of individual villages and have temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is published by HDX under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling spatiotemporal patterns of conflict based on village-level geo-coding.
• Analyzing trends in organized violence based on daily temporal disaggregation.
• Training machine learning models to predict conflict risk using fine-grained event data.
• Conducting sub-national comparative studies of violence within Zambia.

Strengths

• Events are geo-coded down to the level of individual villages.
• Temporal durations are disaggregated to single, individual days.
• Dataset is described as 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 and 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 records, and other sources documenting organized violence.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:27:16.106068; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Zambia.