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Published on: | Last updated:  The ACLED dataset provides information about political violence and demonstration events, disaggregated by date (when the event happened), type of violence (what happened), actors (who is involved), and location (where the event happened).…

Published on: | Last updated:  ACLED is a living dataset and its coverage is updated by adding new events and updating existing events as new information becomes available. There is no limit to how far back events are updated within our temporal coverage per country.…

Published on: | Last updated:  ACLED researchers systematically collect and review the latest reports from selected local, national and international sources, including media, vetted social media accounts, government and NGO reports, and partner organizations.…

Published on: | Last updated:  ACLED researchers scrutinize the information collected during our sourcing process and code the relevant variables according to our global methodology and country-specific methodology rules. Researchers frequently engage with ACLED colleagues and managers on the interpretation of events and the appropriate methodology to ensure that collected data represents the situation on the ground accurately.…

Published on: | Last updated:  ACLED has developed a general methodology with principles that apply across all time periods and regions covered in the dataset. This is documented in the ACLED Codebook and in separate explainers that provide additional information about different facets of the core methodology.…