ACLED Asia covers real-time information on political violence, riots and protests. Information is available from January 2015, with backdated information released for all countries when complete.  The data project covers eleven states including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar.

The situations in individual states are covered throughout the Trend Reports:

ACLED Asia Conflict Trends Report No. 3 August 2015

The August 2015 ACLED-Asia’s Conflict Trends Report focuses on areas of heightened activity across the subcontinent. Special focus topics include an analysis of Pakistan’s ongoing military operation, Zarb-e-Azb, and its impact on Pakistani security, as well as an overview of the various causes for competition and conflict over land in India.


ACLED Asia Conflict Trends Report No. 2 May 2015 

The May 2015 issue of ACLED-Asia’s Conflict Trends Report focuses on political violence events in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The report notes an overall downward trend of politically violent events throughout the subcontinent and Southeast Asia, largely due to a decline in active politically violent events in Bangladesh. ACLED also incorporates reporting on non-violent protesting into its analysis, which constitutes the majority of reported events within South Asia.


ACLED Asia Conflict Trends Report No. 1 March 2015

In the first ever issue of Asian Conflict Trends, ACLED researchers Dr. Clionadh Raleigh and Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith of the University of Sussex introduce the conflict environments and profiles of five of the eleven countries included in the South and Southeast Asia expansion of the ACLED dataset: Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

 


South/Southeast Asia and Africa have seen similar rates of political conflict so far this year, but the composition of the respective conflict differs. For example, Asia sees considerably more riots and protests than other conflict types (at 74% of total political violence). While African protests and riots are increasing, it also experiences more armed, organized violence than these typically civilian events. When comparing fatalities stemming from organized, armed conflict events, the difference between the two continents is much more stark – far more Africans have died in recent conflict compared to South and Southeast Asians.

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2015 Realtime Running Asia File


2015 Realtime Monthly Asia File