The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a detailed initiative focused on gathering, analyzing, and mapping data related to conflicts. ACLED tracks information about the timing, participants, locations, casualties, and nature of political violence and protests globally. The team at ACLED analyzes this data to understand and explore various conflict situations, and they provide both the data and their findings for free public access.

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Latin America and the Caribbean Overview: June 2025

3 weeks ago | acleddata.com | Laura Fuentes |Maria Arocha |Sandra Pellegrini |Tiziano Breda

Guatemala: Intensifying inter- and intra-gang disputes drive an uptick in violence in the Guatemala departmentViolent events more than doubled in Guatemala in May compared to the month prior, driven by an intensification of gang violence.
New frontlines: Jihadist expansion is reshaping the Benin, Niger, and Nigeria borderlands

2 months ago | acleddata.com | Héni Nsaibia
Latin America and the Caribbean Overview: April 2025

2 months ago | acleddata.com | Laura Fuentes |Maria Arocha |Tiziano Breda |Sandra Pellegrini

Argentina: Police repression against retirees triggers discontent On 12 March, police intervened in a protest in Buenos Aires over pensions using tear gas, water cannons, and pellets. This sparked violent clashes that resulted in more than a hundred demonstrators being arrested and dozens injured.
The Raleigh Report - January 2025

Jan 30, 2025 | acleddata.com | Clionadh Raleigh

Welcome readers,I hope that the start of the New Year has been exciting for you. 2025 promises to bring controversy, competition, and change — though the destination remains uncertain (or is it?). Perhaps it’s this ‘known-unknown’ of the future that is driving what I’d call ‘exhausted anxiety’ in our collective reactions to ceasefires, inaugurations, and policies.
The Raleigh Report - December 2024

Dec 19, 2024 | acleddata.com | Clionadh Raleigh

Dear readers,Many of us won’t be devastated that 2024 is ending. It has been an extraordinarily vicious year: Conflict has increased by 25% and, as detailed in our new Conflict Index, conflict rates have doubled in the past five years. So…season’s greetings? Bring on 2025. This year’s findings from the ACLED Conflict Index are stark. Global conflict levels have surged dramatically, with nearly 200,000 political violence events recorded in 2024 alone.
CAST Monthly Report: December 2024

Dec 13, 2024 | acleddata.com | Trey Billing

The ACLED Conflict Alert System (CAST) forecasts organized political violence up to six months into the future. Forecasts are made globally - at the national and sub-national levels - and can be disaggregated by event type (battles, explosions/remote violence, or violence against civilians). Every month, ACLED CAST produces a report highlighting key conflict developments and significant predictions for the coming months. This report reflects the December 2024 update of global forecasts.
December 2024 - ACLED

Dec 11, 2024 | acleddata.com | Clionadh Raleigh |Katayoun Kishi

Movement around the IndexOver the course of 2024, Lebanon rose significantly in the Index, entering into the ‘extreme’ list, whereas it previously had hosted ‘high’ levels of conflict. Libya and Peru have also become worse, both because of increases in fatalities as a result of political violence. Levels of violence overall declined in Yemen despite remaining a site of very high conflict levels.
Latin America and the Caribbean Overview: November 2024

Dec 9, 2024 | acleddata.com | Maria Arocha |Laura Fuentes |Mónica Betancur

Bolivia: Pro-Morales demonstrations decrease despite persisting political and economic tensionsIn the first week of November, supporters of former President Evo Morales lifted their 24-day-long roadblocks that were set to demonstrate against an arrest warrant against Morales. The roadblocks had been erected in mid-October across multiple parts of the country1 amid growing political tensions between Morales and President Luis Arce over control of the ruling Movement to Socialism (MAS) party.
Al-Shabaab targets civilians in Somalia in retaliation for installing CCTV cameras - November 2024

Nov 29, 2024 | acleddata.com
Petro's policy reduced violence, but armed groups grew stronger

Nov 28, 2024 | acleddata.com | Tiziano Breda

Since he took office in August 2022, Gustavo Petro — the first left-wing and former guerrilla president in Colombia’s history — has invested much of his political capital into ending the country’s decades-long conflict. His strategy, known as Total Peace,1 aims to enforce the 2016 peace accords signed with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that his predecessor, Iván Duque (2018-2022), failed to implement.