ACLED - The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project

Owned by Helena Mak
Last updated: May 27, 2021
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Data Assets:

ERI is interested in the three data assets that are already on their portal:

  • Crisis Monitor of U.S.

  • ACLED: Number of Fatalities in Armed Conflicts: Aggregate Data by Country, Monthly Update

  • Armed Conflict Location and Event Database (ACLED), 1997 to Current

Instructions:

You can download the data via ACLED’s Data Export Tool or directly from the API:

  • For Data Export Tool - the access key, email address, and password will be sent to you.

  • For API - the API link/key will be sent to you.

  • Credentials belong to ERI (client), not Knoema.

Country and Time Period Coverage:

ACLED_Country and Time Period coverage_updMay2021 (acleddata.com)

Resource Library:

Resource Libary | ACLED (acleddata.com) - see files under “Core Methodology”

API User Guide:

API-User-Guide (acleddata.com)