Data on conflict and violent event records
We compiled this searchable list of peer-reviewed academic literature on population, health, and armed conflict to support further research and information seeking on these topics. This is not comprehensive of all literature on this subject. Please feel free to suggest other publications that could be included here by emailing: phacnetwork@gmail.com.
| Acronym | Full Name | Description | Geographic Coverage | Time Frame | URL |
| ACLED | Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project | Information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world. | Global | 2010 - Present: Southeast Asia See also: https://acleddata.com/acleddatanew/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2019/01/ACLED_Country-and-Time-Period-coverage_updatedFeb2022.pdf |
https://acleddata.com/data-export-tool/ |
| COW | Correlates of War | This is an alternative leading dataset on armed conflict. This dataset encompasses COW datasets on non-state, intra-state, interstate, and extrastate (comparable to the UCDP datasets). However, armed conflicts here are coded when a conflict reaches 1000 battle-related deaths. | Global | 1816-2007 | |
| CTCD | Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative | The Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative is the first global data hub on human trafficking, publishing harmonized data from counter-trafficking organizations around the world. Data on CTDC is available either to download or to visualize. The visualizations are powered by aggregate statistics which are available for download, and anonymized versions of the CTDC datasets are available publicly to download from the site. (Synthetic data) | Global | 2002-2022 | https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/page/dashboards-datasets |
| CNTS | Cross-National Time-Series Data | Domestic conflict events including nonviolent resistance, assassinations, purges, guerilla warefare, government crises, revolutions and riots | Global | 1815 - Present | https://www.cntsdata.com/ |
| CERAC | Database of the Armed Conflict in Colombia | More than 20,000 events - allowing analysis of actions of all conflict parties. Municipality data captures status of conflict in each municipality. | Columbia | 1988-2012 | https://www.cerac.org.co/es/recursos/datosconflictoscolombia/ |
| GDELT | Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone | News events, real time data collection | Global | 1979 - Present | https://www.gdeltproject.org/data.html#rawdatafiles |
| GTD | Global Terrorism Database | The Global Terrorism Database include information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2020 (with annual updates planned for the future). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on domestic as well as international terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes more than 200,000 cases | Global | 1970 - Present | https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/ |
| HERBS | Herbicide Reporting System Data | The Agent Orange Data Warehouse contains the digitized and cleaned data from the Herbicide Reporting System (https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/1257). The historical records detail herbicide mission dates, locations, and the herbicides used. | Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia | 1961-1971 | https://www.workerveteranhealth.org/milherbs/new/herbs.php?s=0 |
| HCED | Historical Conflict Event Dataset | Conflict Events Worldwide Since 1468BC | Global | 1468 B.C. - Present | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/6ZFC0V |
| MM | Mass Mobilization Project | The Mass Mobilization (MM) data are an effort to understand citizen movements against governments, what citizens want when they demonstrate against governments, and how governments respond to citizens. The MM data cover 162 countries between 1990 and 2018. | Global | 1990-2018 | https://massmobilization.github.io/about.html |
| Missing Migrants Project | Missing Migrants Project tracks incidents involving migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, who have died or gone missing in the process of migration towards an international destination. | Global | 2014-2024 | https://missingmigrants.iom.int/downloads | |
| NAVCO | Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes | Data catalogueing nonviolent and violent campaigns against the government and government responses to those campaigns | Global | 1900-2019 | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/navco |
| PITF | Political Instability Task Force Worldwide Atrocities Dataset | The Political Instability Task Force (PITF) Worldwide Atrocities Dataset is a global dataset that describes, in quantitative terms, the deliberate killing of non-combatant civilians in the context of a wider political conflict. This data collection project, which is still ongoing, is intended to advance efforts to understand and anticipate atrocities, i.e., the deliberate use of lethal violence against non-combatant civilians by actors engaged in a wider political or military conflict. | Global | 1995-2020 | https://eventdata.parusanalytics.com/data.dir/atrocities.html |
| SVAC | Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) data | The Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) dataset measures reports of the conflict-related sexual violence committed by armed actors. The armed actors include government forces, pro-government militias, and rebel groups between 1989-2009 (SVAC 1.0), and government forces and rebel groups for 2010-2015 (SVAC 2.1) and 2016-2021 (SVAC 3.2). The dataset includes information about the prevalence, perpetrators and forms of the reported sexual violence by each armed actor in each conflict-year. | Global | 1989-2021 | http://www.sexualviolencedata.org/ |
| SCAD | Social Conflict Analysis Database | The Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) includes protests, riots, strikes, inter-communal conflict, government violence against civilians, and other forms of social conflict not systematically tracked in other conflict datasets. SCAD currently includes information social conflicts from 1990-2017, covering all of Africa and now also Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. | Africa, Latin America | 1990-2017 | https://www.strausscenter.org/ccaps-research-areas/social-conflict/database/ |
| SATP | South Asia Terrorism portal | SATP is the largest website on terrorism and low intensity warfare in South Asia, and creates the database and analytic context for research and analysis of all extremist movements in the region. SATP establishes a comprehensive, searchable and continuously updated database on all available information relating to terrorism, low intensity warfare and ethnic/communal/sectarian strife in South Asia. | South Asia | 2000-2024 (varies by country) | http://www.satp.org/ |
| TPCONED | The Turkish State-PKK Conflict Event Dataset | TPCONED is a dataset on the fatal events of the armed conflict between the rebel organization PKK and the Turkish state that took place on Turkish soil and in which there was at least one combatant casualty. For each event, the exact date, location at the county (town) level, location at the province level, number of TSF and PKK casualties, and the data sources are listed. The dataset covers the conflict from its very beginning in 1984. Events were cross checked across different sources to make sure that the resulting dataset is as comprehensive, complete and accurate as possible. | Turkey | 1984- | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/138227/ |
| THOR - Korea | Theater History of Operations Data: Korean War | Theater History of Operations (THOR), is a painstakingly cultivated database of historic aerial bombings from the Korean War. | Korea | 1950-1953 | https://data.world/datamil/korean-war-thor-data |
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THOR - Vietnam
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Theater History of Operations Data: Vietnam | Theater History of Operations (THOR), is a painstakingly cultivated database of historic aerial bombings from Vietnam. It is a digitized version of paper mission reports by location that compiles the Combat Air Activities Files (CACTA, 10/1965 - 12/1970), Southeast Asia Database (SEADAB, 1/1970 - 6/1975)), and Combat Naval Gunfire File (CONGA, 3/1966 - 1/1973). See https://www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/electronic-data-files for original records. | Vietnam | 1965-1975 |
https://data.world/datamil/vietnam-war-thor-data You must register (free) and log in to access the data. |
| THOR - WWI | Theater History of Operations Data: World War I | Theater History of Operations (THOR), is a painstakingly cultivated database of historic aerial bombings from the World War I. | Europe | 1914-1918 |
https://data.world/datamil/world-war-i-thor-data You must register (free) and log in to access the data. |
| THOR - WWII | Theater History of Operations Data: World War II | Theater History of Operations (THOR), is a painstakingly cultivated database of historic aerial bombings from the World War II. | Europe, Mediterranean, Pacific | 1939-1945 |
https://data.world/datamil/world-war-ii-thor-data You must register (free) and log in to access the data. |
| UCPD |
Uppsala Conflict Event Dataset - Georeferenced Event Dataset
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Data on organized violence. The basic unit of analysis for the UCDP GED dataset is the “event”, i.e. an individual incident (phenomenon) of lethal violence occurring at a given time and place. | Global | 1946-2023: State Violence 1989-2023: Non-State Conflict 1989-2023: One-sided Violence 1989-2023: Georeferenced Events |
https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ |