The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project that collects information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world.

I spoke with the creator, Clionadh Raleigh, a Professor of Political Violence and Geography at the University of Sussex. Since 2014, ACLED has operated as a non-profit, non-governmental organization incorporated in the USA. In 2022, ACLED expanded coverage to the entire world, collecting data in real time and publishing weekly updates. So far, ACLED has recorded a total of more than one million individual events globally.

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