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. Watch the recorded conversation on the complexities of the ongoing conflict,…
Since President Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first left-wing and former guerrilla president, took office in August 2022, the country’s conflict landscape has continued to evolve. His strategy, known as Total Peace, aims to revamp the implementation of the 2016 peace accords that his predecessor, Iván Duque, failed to implement and to strike new agreements with the…
ACLED’s Conflict Index ranks the top 50 countries and territories experiencing the most extreme conflicts, based on four key indicators: deadliness, civilian danger, geographic spread, and armed group fragmentation. Informed by the Conflict Index, ACLED’s 2025 Conflict Watchlist, spotlights 10 critical crisis areas likely to evolve in the year ahead. From civil wars and insurgencies…
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its third year, Russian targeting of civilians has reached its highest levels since the first year of the war — both in terms of the number of attacks and associated fatalities and in the targeting of civilian infrastructure. Watch our recorded webinar for a conversation analyzing the data…
Since early 2024, the violent campaigns of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP) jihadist groups have been reshaping the security landscape in the Sahel and its littoral borderlands. These groups have significantly expanded their operations, transforming the regions bordering the Sahel toward the coast into an active…
