The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. ACLED collects information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world. The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open for free use by the public.
ACLED is the leading source of real-time data on political violence and protest activity around the world. We regularly provide the media with the latest figures on conflict events and fatalities, commentary on trends and dynamics, insight into ACLED data collection methodology, and more.
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ACLED was created by Clionadh Raleigh, a Professor of Political Violence and Geography at the University of Sussex, in 2005 as a component of her PhD work. Since 2014, ACLED has operated as a non-profit, non-governmental organization incorporated in Wisconsin. In 2022, ACLED expanded coverage to the entire world, collecting data in real time and publishing weekly updates.
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ACLED is a registered non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status in the United States. ACLED receives financial support from the Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF’d), the European Commission, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Tableau Foundation.
ACLED partners with Mapbox for support on the latest location data and mapping tools.
The project has previously received funding from the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations at the United States Department of State, the German Federal Foreign Office, the International Organization for Migration, the University of Texas at Austin, and the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n° 283755 from 2013 to 2017.
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Three weeks after the initial Hamas attack on southern Israel, the IDF launched a ground operation into northern Gaza following intense airstrikes. Violence has simultaneously…
Conflict is widespread and pervasive. ACLED data indicate that political violence incidents are up 27% worldwide. In this Q&A to mark the release of our…
More than 60 people were killed in a suspected jihadist attack on a river boat near the village of Abakoira in Mali’s northern Tombouctou region…
ACLED records over 570 political violence events along the Armenia-Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact from the start of the year through the days leading up to…
ACLED’s Global Conflict Index ranks every country and territory according to four key indicators: deadliness, danger to civilians, geographic diffusion, and armed group fragmentation.
Elections for a new president in Zimbabwe had chaotic moments and were heavily biased in favor of incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling ZANU-PF party.…
Violence is escalating in Amhara region, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency. Nearly 30 clashes between government forces and Fano militias were…
While political violence incidents increased in Niger last year, the lethality of the violence has steadily declined, with a significant overall decrease in fatalities in…
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…
Updated: 24 May 2023 | Since the start of the fighting in Sudan, ACLED has recorded almost 200 conflict incidents around the country, with more…
Anti-LGBT+ mobilization has risen to its highest levels since ACLED started collecting data for the United States in 2020.
A new platform developed by ACLED and CDD to monitor patterns of political violence around the 2023 Nigerian general elections.
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
ACLED records a fourfold increase in anti-LGBT+ events from 2020 to 2021, and 2022 is currently on track to escalate even further.
Dozens of bomb and shooting threats have been recorded across the country this year, with a surge reported during Black History Month.
Since the attack, over 1,800 demonstrations have been reported worldwide.
New data on Canadian convoy protests and the police response.
Back-coding adds over 6,000 new events to the dataset for the seven countries covered by the pilot project.
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…
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…
A year on from the Capitol attack, armed pro-Trump demonstrations continue around the country.
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…
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 &…
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…
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), in partnership with Everytown for Gun Safety, today released a new report documenting 560 armed demonstrations…
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,…
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.
Download a PDF We are pleased to announce the launch of ACLED-Religion, our new pilot project collecting real-time data on religious repression and disorder across…
Download a PDF 5 February 2021: New US Crisis Monitor data extend ACLED’s coverage of political violence and demonstration activity in the United States to…
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…
9 December 2020: Historical back-coding extends ACLED’s coverage of Latin America & the Caribbean back to 2018, adding more than 44,000 events. The new data…
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…
Download a PDF 31 August 2020: Nearly 11,000 demonstration, political violence, and strategic development events are recorded across America since the end of May, according…
A special project launched by ACLED and BDI to track political violence and demonstration activity in the United States.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
5 April 2019: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is pleased to announce the incorporation of new data collected by the Syrian…
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 &…
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…
ACLED has recorded over 2,000 political violence and protest events in the Balkans — defined as Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Serbia —…
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…
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…
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…
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…
28 March 2019: As the UN Security Council returns from a visit to Mali and Burkina Faso, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is pleased to announce the release of the most comprehensive dataset on the Syrian conflict to…
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…
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…
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,…
Over 1000 events have been added to ACLED’s Cambodia dataset — extending coverage back to 2010 — bringing the total number of reported political violence,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This Reuters article uses our Infographic on Global Demonstrations in Response to the Israel-Palestine Conflict to analyze the global protest movement to the war.
This New York Times article uses ACLED data to map and analysis from our Fact Sheet: Israel and Palestine Conflict to map the increase in violence across the West Bank.
This Sky News analysis uses ACLED data to map 33 separate sites that had been bombarded from 7-12 October.
ACLED in the News US Joins List of Top 50 Conflict-Ridden Countries | VOA Source: VOA | 22 September 2023 The ACLED Conflict Index ranks every country and territory according to…
In this episode of the Africa Daily podcast, ACLED President and CEO Prof. Clionadh Raleigh spoke with host Alan Kasujja on the fighting in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces…
This article by Forbes used ACLED data and featured commentary from our Conflict Watchlist report, ‘Myanmar: Continued Opposition to the Junta Amid Increasing Civilian Targeting by the Military’
This VICE analysis uses ACLED data on far-right mobilization in the United States.
In this video, France 24 Journalist Wassim Nasr uses ACLED and Menastream data to map Jihadist activity in the Central Sahel
With increased availability of disaggregated conflict event data for analysis, there are new and old concerns about bias. We contend that it is necessary to advance an open and honest…
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, this Time article looks at the increase of armed demonstrators and far-right extremists at abortion-related demonstrations
This article from LGBTQ Nation outlines 16 violent attacks on Pride events in 2022, noting the ACLED finding that incidents of political violence targeting the LGBTQ community in the first…
About half the world’s population live in an area of active or latent conflict, and few corners of the planet are not feeling the effects of climate change
Commentary from ACLED’s Head of Communications, Sam Jones, specifically citing ACLED data that shows the anti-LGBT+ mobilization increased by over four times from 2020 to 2021
The Washington Post cites ACLED estimates that the coalition air campaign in Yemen has directly resulted in nearly 24,000 total fatalities, including approximately 9,000 civilians.
In the wake of the May 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, ACLED Director of Research & Innovation Dr. Roudabeh Kishi discusses our latest report on far-right activity in…
ACLED in the News The Buffalo Killer Ripped off Past Manifestos and Mainstream GOP Talking Points | Daily Beast Source: NPR | 3 May 2022 NPR’s Morning Edition breaks down ACLED’s…
Highlighting our special report on 10 Conflicts to Worry About in 2022, the Addis Standard Daily Scoop features ACLED data showing that conflict events increased by 161% in Ethiopia in…
The Intercept features our new report with Afghan Peace Watch — Tracking Disorder During Taliban Rule in Afghanistan — on the rise in violence targeting women, journalists, and former government…
Drawing on ACLED and other data sources to triangulate reports, this Washington Post Visual Analysis investigation verifies “nine incidents where hospitals faced direct damage as a result of a reported…
Al Jazeera analysis of ACLED data finds that violence is surging in Burkina Faso, making it the new epicenter of the Sahel crisis, and features commentary from Héni Nsaibia, ACLED…
Business World Online covers a new investigation into 250 potential drug war killings in the Philippines, citing recent ACLED research that indicated the government was severely undercounting civilian fatalities from…
ACLED Executive Director Prof. Clionadh Raleigh outlines new research into political change in African competitive autocracies using the notion of ‘regime cycles.’ This framework seeks to explain political change in…
For Ms. Magazine, ACLED Director for Research & Innovation Dr. Roudabeh Kishi breaks down new showing that physical violence targeting women in politics is increasing in most regions of the…
To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Al Jazeera uses ACLED data to chart trends in sexual violence against women in armed conflict.
This interactive project from the Boston Globe uses ACLED data to map 139 car-ramming incidents at demonstrations across the United States since May 2020, and features commentary from ACLED Director…
Drawing on new data produced by ACLED and the Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, Diana Palmer and Timothy Zick argue that firearms are having chilling effect on the exercise…
This Reuters special report uses ACLED data to document a “wave of assassinations” targeting village leaders and their families in the Sahel.
Co-written by ACLED Senior Researcher Héni Nsaibia, this The New Humanitarian investigation draws on ACLED data to track extrajudicial killings in Mali. In 2020, Malian security forces were linked to…
The Washington Post uses ACLED data to show the scale of the military junta’s crackdown on anti-coup demonstrations in Myanmar.
USA Today features our joint report with the Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund analyzing new data on armed demonstrations in the United States, with commentary from ACLED Director of…
In this interactive analysis, Sky News uses ACLED data to explore Islamic State activity across Africa, mapping trends in Egypt, the Sahel, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mozambique.
External New Perspectives on Preventing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence | IPI Global Observatory Source: IPI Global Observatory | 16 February 2021 In this op-ed published by the International Peace Institute, our Director…
In the wake of the January 6 isurecction, this FiveThirtyEight report draws on ACLED analysis around police response to protests in the United States and features commentary from ACLED’s Director…
The political participation of women, especially in conflict-affected countries, is an official foreign policy priority for the United States. In this commentary published in War on the Rocks, our Director…