Introducing ACLED: An Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset

This article presents ACLED, an Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset. ACLED codes the actions of rebels, governments, and militias within unstable states, specifying the exact location and date of battle events, transfers of military control, headquarter establishment, civilian violence, and ri...

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Published in:Journal of peace research 2010-09, Vol.47 (5), p.651-660
Main Authors: Raleigh, Clionadh, Linke, Andrew, Hegre, Håvard, Karlsen, Joakim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed conflict
Armed Forces
Civil War
Civil wars
Conflict
Datasets
Geodetic position
Government
Militias
Political violence
Special Data Feature
Territories
Transnationalism
Violence
War
War conflict
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Summary:This article presents ACLED, an Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset. ACLED codes the actions of rebels, governments, and militias within unstable states, specifying the exact location and date of battle events, transfers of military control, headquarter establishment, civilian violence, and rioting. In the current version, the dataset covers 50 unstable countries from 1997 through 2010. ACLED's disaggregation of civil war and transnational violent events allow for research on local level factors and the dynamics of civil and communal conflict. Findings from subnational conflict research challenges conclusions from larger national-level studies. In a brief descriptive analysis, the authors find that, on average, conflict covers 15% of a state's territory, but almost half of a state can be directly affected by internal wars.
ISSN:0022-3433
1460-3578
DOI:10.1177/0022343310378914