ACLED and the Ideas for Peace Foundation (FIP) reveal these findings following an analysis of the current impact of disputes between illegal armed groups. An increasing number of civilians are…
Q&A with Héni Nsaibia West Africa Senior Analyst, ACLED After more than a decade of protracted conflict in the central Sahel, insecurity continues to spread both within the region and…
Four years since the 1 February 2021 coup in Myanmar, the political impasse that has generated increased conflict across the country is no closer to being resolved. While the armed…
ACLED’s 2024 Year in Review infographic series highlights the most-read publications and lists the top 10 most-visited web pages for each of the six regions for the year. Click through…
Israel’s continued military presence in southern Lebanon after the 26 January deadline has once again raised concerns over further confrontation along the border. During the first 60 days of the…
Q&A with Ladd Serwat Africa Senior Analyst, ACLED After more than three years of renewed operations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the March 23 Movement (M23) and Rwandan Defence…
Tiziano Breda, Senior Analyst for Latin America & the Caribbean at conflict data mapping organization ACLED, said: “The offensive launched by the National Liberation Army (ELN) against the General Central…
Sandra Pellegrini, Senior Latin America Analyst at conflict data mapping organization ACLED said: “Labelling cartels as terrorist organizations opens the door for legal and political justification for US actions beyond…
According to the latest ACLED figures, over 200 towns and villages in Syria have been captured by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led rebel forces from the start of their offensive on…
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) is pleased to share that the partners behind the Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF’d) will continue to support ACLED’s core operations and advance…
With a week to go before the 5 November US elections, political violence by extremist groups looks unlikely according to analysis by Kieran Doyle, US expert at independent non-profit conflict…
Palestine is the most dangerous place in the world, according to the ACLED Conflict Index, now updated with mid-year rankings. It finds that 87% of the Palestinian population across Gaza…
Source: México Evalúa | Mexico City, 2 July 2024 Leer en Español en México Evalúa Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), Data Cívica, México Evalúa, and Animal Político presented…
Over 450 demonstration events were recorded across France in the immediate aftermath of the killing, marking a 380% increase compared to the previous week and a 456% increase compared to the weekly average since 2021.
Updated: 24 May 2023 | Since the start of the fighting in Sudan, ACLED has recorded almost 200 conflict incidents around the country, with more than 750 reported fatalities. Two-thirds of the clashes have taken place in cities of over 100,000 people.
A series of attacks targeting churches as well as Catholic and Protestant leaders has raised concerns about escalating violence against the Christian community in Nigeria
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has now achieved global real-time coverage with a final geographic expansion to Canada, Oceania, Antarctica, and all remaining small states and territories.
Following the completion of the initial beta testing phase, ACLED is pleased to launch an updated and expanded version of the Early Warning Research Hub — our new suite of interactive resources aimed at facilitating data-driven initiatives to anticipate and respond to emerging crises.
Three years ago, ACLED released new data capturing political violence targeting women (PVTW). Building on that work, ACLED has now expanded the data to introduce identity types for the targets of PVTW, including specifically tracking political violence targeting women in politics (PVTWIP) for the first time.
Civilian fatalities from anti-drug operations in the Philippines are at least 25% higher than official figures suggest, new data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) reveal.
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has now expanded real-time coverage to 13 small states and territories in Africa and Asia, adding over 600 new events to the dataset from the start of 2020 to the present.
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), in partnership with Everytown for Gun Safety, today released a new report documenting 560 armed demonstrations that have taken place across the United States since the start of 2020.
Key Trends Since former President Donald Trump issued an executive order widely seen as an attempt to ban critical race theory (CRT) in September 2020, six states have moved forward…
At least 34 states have introduced “anti-protest” bills to restrict demonstration activity or to expand legal protections for drivers who strike protesters with their vehicles.
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{{ vc_btn: title=Download+a+PDF&style=custom&custom_background=%23004359&custom_text=%23ffffff&align=center&i_icon_fontawesome=fas+fa-arrow-alt-circle-down&add_icon=true&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Facleddata.com%252Facleddatanew%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2021%252F02%252FACLED_BDI_USCM2020Release_2021.pdf%7Ctarget%3A_blank }} 5 February 2021: New US Crisis Monitor data extend ACLED’s coverage of political violence and demonstration activity in the United States to all of 2020. Over…
14 January 2021: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has now expanded real-time coverage to all of Europe, extending the dataset to 37 new countries and territories.…
9 December 2020: Historical back-coding extends ACLED’s coverage of Latin America & the Caribbean1ACLED’s Latin America & Caribbean dataset covers more than 40 countries and territories across the region. For…
3 December 2020: Historical back-coding for 2018, as well as supplemental data drawing on 18 new sources, together result in ACLED’s most comprehensive coverage of East Asia to date. The…
{{ vc_btn: title=Download+a+PDF&style=custom&custom_background=%23004359&custom_text=%23ffffff&i_icon_fontawesome=fas+fa-arrow-alt-circle-down&add_icon=true&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Facleddata.com%252Facleddatanew%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2020%252F08%252FACLED_US-Crisis-Monitor-Summer-2020_Overview.pdf%7Ctarget%3A_blank }} 31 August 2020: Nearly 11,000 demonstration, political violence, and strategic development events are recorded across America since the end of May, according to new US Crisis…
30 June 2020: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has now expanded real-time coverage to East Asia. The new data span six countries — China, Taiwan,1 For…
On 15 March 2020, Syria entered its 10th year of war. Although ACLED data show an overall decrease in violence over the course of 2019, the war in Syria remains…
At the height of the Arab Spring in February 2011, a mass protest movement took to the streets in Bahrain calling for democratic reforms, human rights protections, and an end…
27 February 2020: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has now expanded real-time coverage to Latin America and the Caribbean. These new data span more than 40…
31 October 2019: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) currently records more than 100,000 reported fatalities in Yemen since 2015, including over 12,000 civilians killed in direct…
24 October 2019: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is pleased to announce the expansion of real-time coverage to Central Asia and the Caucasus. The new data…
25 July 2019: An upsurge in subregional conflict, an outbreak of the Ebola virus, and a contentious election combined to make 2018 one of the most violent years on record…
3 July 2019: Violence against civilians has continued unabated in the Philippines through the first half of 2019, prompting condemnation last week from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights…
19 June 2019: On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, ACLED data confirm that sexual violence remains a serious threat around the world — both…
18 June 2019: New data for 2015 bring the total number of reported fatalities in Yemen to more than 91,000 over the past four and a half years. For the…
28 May 2019: Women around the world are facing unprecedented levels of targeted political violence. According to new data on political violence targeting women collated by the Armed Conflict Location…
28 May 2019: Twenty years after the United Nations officially added the protection of civilians in armed conflict to the Security Council agenda, noncombatants continue to be targeted at alarming…
With the release of its new sub-event type categorization ACLED now includes a ‘Sexual violence’ sub-event type under the larger ‘Violence against civilians’ event type. This sub-event type includes all…
18 April 2019: More than 10,000 people have been reported killed in Yemen over the last five months, bringing the war’s total death toll to over 70,000 since 2016 according…
5 April 2019: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is pleased to announce the incorporation of new data collected by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR),…
2 April 2019: Data for more than 23,500 political violence and protest events across Eastern Europe are now available from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).
Across Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, and Cyprus, nearly 1,700 political violence and protests events were recorded, the majority of which are protests. Nearly half of these events took place…
ACLED has recorded over 2,000 political violence and protest events in the Balkans — defined as Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Serbia — since January 2018. Across all…
Over 700 political violence and protest events spread across Romania, Moldova, and Belarus have been recorded in 2018 and since. Most of these events have been protests, and most have…
Over 2,000 political violence and protest events took place in Russia in 2018. A vast majority of these were protest events, including anti-government protests and demonstrations against various proposed reforms…
By far the highest number of political violence and protest events in Europe have taken place in Ukraine, with over 17,500 total events. A vast majority of these events have…
ACLED’s new Europe dataset has over 23,500 new political violence and protest events, spanning 15 countries across Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Balkans, Ukraine, and Russia. By far the highest…
28 March 2019: As the UN Security Council returns from a visit to Mali and Burkina Faso, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has recorded a massive…
22 March 2019: Eight years into the Syrian Civil War, the country remains one of the deadliest places for civilians according to data collected by the Armed Conflict Location &…
20 March 2019: With the UN announcing a new plan to shore up the December 2018 Stockholm Agreement between Yemen’s warring parties, the latest Armed Conflict Location & Event Data…
ACLED has debuted new event types to make analysis for users easier and more informative, and has also added a new sub-event type variable, which disaggregates event types further to…
21 December 2018: Despite a decrease in total fatalities this year, the majority of countries experienced more conflict, expanding the scope of political violence across Africa, Asia, and the Middle…
11 December 2018: As UN-led peace talks proceed in Stockholm and a landmark bill to end US support for the Saudi-backed coalition works its way through Congress, the Armed Conflict…
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is pleased to announce the release of the most comprehensive dataset on the Syrian conflict to date. The data are based…
Nearly 2500 additional conflict, protest, and non-violent events have been added to the ACLED Nepal dataset, expanding coverage back to 2010. The newly added data indicate a relatively low level…
Spanning from 2010 to the present, ACLED’s dataset for Myanmar includes over 5,000 recorded events. The data cover three political periods: the tail-end of the military dictatorship through 2010, the…
ACLED’s Thailand dataset contains nearly 3,000 recorded political violence, protest, and other non-violent political events from 2010 through the present. Throughout most of the country, the most common events are…
Over 1000 events have been added to ACLED’s Cambodia dataset — extending coverage back to 2010 — bringing the total number of reported political violence, protests, and other non-violent events…
Over 250 additional events were added to the ACLED Vietnam dataset, nearly tripling the number of political violence, protest, and non-violent events in Vietnam coded by ACLED. The new data…
The period of ACLED’s coverage of Sri Lanka, 2010-2014, was bookended by the country’s sixth and seventh presidential elections, each marking major political events in the country’s political violence and…
Over 3700 political violence, protests, and other non-violent events have been added to ACLED’s Bangladesh dataset. This new release represents the addition of two major years in Bangladesh’s political history…
Recorded political violence, protests, and other non-violent events drastically increased in the Philippines after President Duterte assumed office (June 30, 2016) and declared a ‘War on Drugs’ (July 1, 2016).…
During 2016, the war in Syria greatly impacted Lebanon due to the more than one million Syrian refugees entering the country, and the active fighting with Syrian rebel forces along…
In 2016, an increase in the development of settlements by Israel in the Palestinian West Bank was recorded while discriminatory land policies remained in place to prevent land development by…
In Turkey, the beginning of 2016 was marked by escalating violence in the southeast as part of the renewed Kurdish/Turkish conflict following the 20 July 2015 Islamic State (IS) attack…
In 2016, high periods of demonstration activity were reported during three particular periods in Bahrain. First, the year started with Saudi Arabia executing the prominent Shiite cleric Nimr Baqir al-Nimr.…
2016 was marked by an upsurge in Iran’s conflict with Kurdish insurgents. From the mid-1990s through 2016, the Iranian Kurdish parties had refrained from taking action against Iranian security forces,…
In 2016, the groundwork was laid for the dramatic defeat of the Islamic State in 2017. During offensives throughout the year, a number of towns in western Iraq in particular…
On Monday, May 14, the US moving of its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on the 70th anniversary of the formation of Israel was met with demonstrations and violence on…
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