Apathy, Intimidation and Non-Violence in Zimbabwe’s Contentious By-Elections
By the end of the 10th of June by-elections, the ruling Zimbabwean African National Union-Patriotic…
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Political Factionalism and Electoral Competition in Zimbabwe
Conflict levels decreased to below average levels in May. This decline follows a spike in…
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Protest, Service Delivery and Xenophobic Violence in South Africa
Conflict levels fell dramatically in May 2015 after South Africa suffered a wave of xenophobic…
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A New Working Paper on ACLED Reporting Sources
The growth of online media and easily accessible information has enabled conflict data projects to provide…
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Update on ACLED Resources on Boko Haram
Boko Haram is one of the most high-profile conflict actors in West Africa and the…
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Dynamic Conflicts and Static Promises: Shifting Advantage, the Political Marketplace and Broken Ceasefires
In the past half-decade, multiple peace agreements and ceasefires have been implemented in various African…
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State Repression as an Obstruction to Conflict Monitoring
Governments may purposely repress or limit the information available to NGOs, media outlets and academics…
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Political Militias and Remote Violence in 2014
Version 5 of ACLED carries a new event type termed ‘Remote violence’. Remote violence is…
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Service-delivery demonstrations, political voice and elections in South Africa
South Africa was the seventh most active country in the ACLED dataset in 2014, in…
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