On 19 October at 9 am EST/3 pm CET we held a virtual launch of the inaugural report in this series, featuring a panel discussion with ACLED Senior Researcher Héni Nsaibia, GI-TOC Senior Analyst Dr. Eleanor Beevor, International Crisis Group Senior Analyst Sahel Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim, and Ornella Moderan, a political and security analyst working on the Sahel, moderated by ACLED Africa Regional Specialist Ladd Serwat. See the full recording of the event below, and read the report here.
The ACLED Conflict Index assesses every country and territory in the world according to four indicators – deadliness, danger to civilians, geographic diffusion, and armed group fragmentation – based on analysis of political violence event data collected for the past year. The top 50 ranked countries and territories are experiencing extreme, high, or turbulent levels…
Local government officials are frequent victims of violence and intimidation worldwide. In 2023, ACLED records close to 2,500 incidents of violence targeting local government officials reported in 94 countries, and our data show that election cycles heighten these risks. To better monitor this threat, ACLED’s new 2023 Annual Report on Violence Targeting Local Officials sheds…
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The 2024 electoral process was one of the most violent in Mexico in recent decades. Only in the year preceding the election, the project "Votar entre balas" (Voting between bullets) has documented more than 550 acts of violence against political actors. In addition, ACLED has recorded other expressions of political violence and disorder in the…
Join us on 3 July 2024 for a roundtable discussion with ACLED experts monitoring settler violence in the West Bank, as they analyze the impacts of the October 2023 attacks across the world.
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) launched a joint series of publications profiling non-state armed groups in West Africa that explores the intersections of their involvement in illicit economies and attempts at governance provision. The first installment focused on Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) in…
Photo: Tyler Merbler/Wikimedia Commons.In this year of global elections, all eyes are on the contentious US race. The attempted assassination at former President Trump’s campaign rally shows that even at a time of lower mobilization, the risk of violence remains significant. With the campaign season at full speed and formal nominations underway, ongoing monitoring and…
Off the heels of successive coups in the region, ACLED and GI-TOC are conducting a joint series of publications profiling non-state armed groups in West Africa. The series explores the intersections of their involvement in illicit economies and attempts at governance provision. The series brings new material and updated analyses using the ACLED data, ongoing…
Join us for the first Global Unrest Deep Data Dive from Emergent Risk International (ERI) and ACLED. In this webinar, we’ll talk through how ACLED meticulously sources their data and then how ERI translates this data into concise analysis, using current topical areas: the US, Israel-Palestine and Bangladesh. You will get the opportunity to pose…
As countries in Africa move away from multilateral security interventions, Rwanda has presented itself as an alternative partner. While Rwanda has increased involvement in regional security alongside host governments, since 2022 the bulk of its operations have been in the DRC.Watch the recorded webinar examining Rwanda’s security interventions, with a special focus on operations in…
A series of military coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger in recent years have transformed military dynamics in the region, shifting bilateral assistance from traditional Western partners like France and the United States to Russia, through mercenaries from the Wagner Group and its successor, Africa Corps. Despite these seismic changes, the Islamist insurgency spearheaded…
Since the attempted coup in February 2021, the conflict landscape in Myanmar has become the most fragmented in the world. ACLED records over 2,600 new non-state actors participating in Myanmar’s conflict since April 2021, accounting for 21% of total active non-state armed groups worldwide. Join us on Wednesday, 27 November at 7pm Bangkok / 1pm…
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