CSV / GeoJSON
ACLED Armed Conflict Events
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data — daily global political violence and protest event data with actor, type, and fatality details.
Conflict & security
Global armed conflict events, terrorism incidents, and food security early warning data for humanitarian and security analysis.
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Official sources and direct access
Mixed delivery
Pages combine official portals, direct downloads, and task-focused usage guidance in one canonical URL.
GEO coverage
Task-first content
Intros, FAQs, and workflows are written to answer real “where do I download…” searches.
Conflict and security pages provide event-level data on armed conflicts, terrorism, and food security crises for humanitarian response, risk assessment, and peace research.
These point and polygon datasets support spatial analysis of conflict patterns, humanitarian access, and vulnerability mapping.
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CSV / GeoJSON
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data — daily global political violence and protest event data with actor, type, and fatality details.
CSV / Shapefile
University of Maryland's comprehensive database of over 200,000 terrorist incidents worldwide from 1970-2020.
Shapefile / GeoJSON / PDF
USAID Famine Early Warning Systems Network — food security phase classification maps for at-risk regions.
Recommended conflict workflow
Category FAQ
ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data) provides daily-updated political violence and protest data for all countries, with event type, actors, fatalities, and location coordinates.
Yes. The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) from the University of Maryland provides free access to over 200,000 terrorist incidents worldwide from 1970 to 2020.