Publications

Trends

ACLED Trend Reports are monthly updates on political violence and conflict events in African states. They are based on real-time data, and compare current trends and patterns to historical dynamics in key focus countries.

ACLED Conflict Trends Report No. 14 May 2013

ACLED Conflict Trends Report No. 13 April 2013

ACLED Conflict Trends Report No. 12 March 2013

ACLED Conflict Trends Report No. 11 February 2013

ACLED Conflict Trends Report No. 10 January 2013

Archived Conflict Trends reports (April - December 2012).

ACLED Papers

ACLED Working Papers explore and present different aspects of ACLED data, including the role of distinct actors, actor types and sources in coding.

ACLED Violent Islamist Groups Working Paper (January 2013)

ACLED Unidentified Armed Groups Working Paper (July 2012)

ACLED Sources Working Paper (July 2012)

Select Articles and Book Chapters

Raleigh, Clionadh, Andrew Linke, Havard Hegre and Joackim Karlsen. 2010. Introducing ACLED: An Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset. Journal of Peace Research 47, 5: 1-10.

Raleigh, Clionadh and Havard Hegre. 2009. Population Size, Concentration and Civil War: A Geographically Disaggregated Analysis. Political Geography 28, 4: 224-238.

Poverty and Civil War Events. Journal of Conflict Resolution 53, 4: 598-623.

'Spatial-Temporal Modeling of Civil War: The Example of Bosnia'.

ACLED Reports

• ACLED Country Report on Somalia (April 2013)
• ACLED Country Report on Nigeria (April 2013)
• ACLED Country Report on Democratic Republic of Congo
• ACLED Country Report on Chad
• ACLED Country Report on Central African Republic
• ACLED Country Report on Somalia (February 2009)

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