Geographic focus: Africa, East, South and Southeast Asia, Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Latin America and the Caribbean, Southeastern and Eastern Europe and the Balkans “ACLED receives financial support from the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations at the United States Department of State, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the German Federal Foreign Office, the Tableau Foundation, the International Organization for Migration, and The University of Texas at Austin.” ( ACLED website: About ACLED, undated) “ACLED is a registered non-profit organization in the United States.” ( ACLED website: About ACLED, undated)

The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open for free use by the public. ACLED collects the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events. “The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. Reports, analyses, maps, Conflict Trend ReportsĬovered monthly on, for countries of priorities A, B and C. In brief: Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) collects, analyses and maps information on crisis and conflict in Africa, South & Southeast Asia and the Middle East and provides datasets on conflict-related incidents. Source description last updated: 29 September 2020

Armed conflict database