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The ACLED Data Project: Purpose and Methods
Clionadh Raleigh, Joachim Carlsen
161 - 168
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics
Volume 36: Building and Using Datasets on Armed Conflicts
Abstract

This paper is reporting on the ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data) project which records civil war events by precise location and by day. First the paper explains how the dataset can support and further ongoing research on civil war. Then the paper briefly presents a summary of how the dataset is defined. Lastly some of the methodological issues related to high resolution geographical coding and analysis are discussed.

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