acled function

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED)

From ACLED's homepage: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. ACLED collects information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world. The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open for free use by the public.

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).

get_acled(
  years = 2000,
  key = Sys.getenv("ACLED_ACCESS_KEY"),
  email = Sys.getenv("ACLED_ACCESS_EMAIL"),
  accept_terms = FALSE
)

Arguments

• years: A numeric vector specifying the years for which to make ACLED data available (between 1997 and today). Defaults to 2000.
• key: ACLED API key obtained by registering with ACLED (see Details).
• email: Email addressed used to register with ACLED (see Details).
• accept_terms: A logical indicating if you agree to abid by ACLED's terms of use. Defaults to FALSE, thus must be manually set to TRUE.

Returns

A function that returns an sf footprint object.

Details

In order to access data from the ACLED API, you first must register an an account. Note, that the ACLED API used here provides a living database

with single events being altered or removed altogether over time.

References

Raleigh, C., Kishi, R. & Linke, A. Political instability patterns are obscured by conflict dataset scope conditions, sources, and coding choices. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 10, 74 (2023). tools:::Rd_expr_doi("https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01559-4")