Acled
Acled
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Mission
ACLED IS THE HIGHEST QUALITY, MOST WIDELY USED, REALTIME DATA AND ANALYSIS SOURCE ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND PROTEST IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD.
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CONFLICT DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING - ACLED COLLECTS DATA ON REPORTED POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND PROTEST EVENTS ACROSS THE WORLD INCLUDING INFORMATION ON THE DATE, ACTORS, TYPE OF VIOLENCE, LOCATION AND FATALITIES. ACLED ANALYZES THESE DATA TO DESCRIBE, EXPLORE AND TEST CONFLICT SCENARIOS. ACLED MAKES BOTH DATA AND ANALYSIS OPEN FOR USE BY THE PUBLIC.PROJECT TITLE: ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) DONOR: BUREAU OF CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS (CSO) OF UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE. PROJECT RAN FROM JULY 2018 TO JUNE 2019 (WHEN IT WAS EXTENDED THROUGH A COST AMMENDMENT FOR ANOTHER 18 MONTHS). FROM JULY 2018 TO JUNE 2019 IN THIS PROJECT ACLED AIMED TO "ENCOURAGE EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING ON CONFLICT AND CRISIS ISSUES WITH TIMELY DATA AND ANALYSIS THAT REFLECT THE REALITY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND UNREST LOCALLY." THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE CONTINUATION OF DATA COLLECTION ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND PROTEST IN 49 COUNTRIES IN AFRICA, 14 IN SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST ASIA AND THE EXPANSION OF THE PROJECT TO COVER 15 COUNTRIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. DATA WAS PRODUCED COVERING 2010-PRESENT ON MOST ASIAN COUNTRIES COVERED (FEW EXCEPTIONS INCLUDED INDIA, INDONESIA AND THE PHILIPPINES WHICH WERE NEWER OR HIGH VOLUME SO WERE ONLY CODED BACK A FEW YEARS), COVERING 2016-PRESENT ON MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES (EXCEPT SYRIA WHICH WAS COVERED ONLY THROUGH 2017 DUE TO VOLUME). ACLED ALSO BEGAN EXPANSION TO EUROPE DURING 2018. ACLED ALSO DEVELOPED PARTNER ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY TO USE ACLED DATA BY PROVIDING TRAINING AND ADVISORY SUPPORT TO LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS UNITS. PARTNERSHIPS WERE DEVELOPED WITH LOCAL PARTNERS IN EACH REGION AND TRAININGS WERE CONDUCTED WITH MANY OF THESE PARTNERS IN PERSON OR DIGITALLY.DONOR: THE DEPARTMENT OF THE DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTRYPROJECT RAN FROM JULY 2018 TO JUNE 2019 (ONGOING). FROM JULY 2018-JUNE 2019 IN THIS PROJECT ACLED AIMED TO: COLLECT REALTIME AND HISTORICAL POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND PROTEST DATA ON EXISTING AND 77 NEW ACLED COUNTRIES, FOSTER THE COLLECTION OF HIGH QUALITY, LOCAL DATA ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND PROTEST AND ITS INTEGRATION INTO THE ACLED DATASET: PRODUCE ROBUST, TIMELY AND POLICY RELEVANT ANALYSIS ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND PROTEST IN ACLED COUNTRIES; INCREASE AND IMPROVE USE OF ACLED DATA BY POLICYMAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS.PROJECT TITLE: ACLED ASIA EXPANSION AND METHOD IMPROVEMENT PROJECTDONOR: GERMAN FEDERAL FOREIGN OFFICEPROJECT RAN FROM JANUARY 2019 THROUGH JUNE 2019 (ONGOING). FROM JANUARY - JUNE 2019 IN THIS PROJECT ACLED AIMED TO: CONTINUE REALITME DATA COLLECTION ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND PROTEST AS WELL AS BEGIN ONE YEAR OF HISTORICAL DATA COLLECTION FOR COUNTRIES IN CENTRAL ASIA AND EAST ASIA. ACLED WORKED TO ADVANCE ACLED METHODOLOGY WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT OF CONFLICT PULSE AS A TOOL FOR EARLY WARNING. THE CONFLICT PULSE CAN BE USED TO ASSESS THE CHANGE IN DIRECTION AND INTENSITY OF CONFLICT EVENTS IN THE WORLD'S MOST DISORDERED STATES. THIS TOOL CAN BE USED TO UNDERSTAND SEVERAL DIFFERENT CONFLICT FORMS BASED ON INTERACTION OR EVENT TYPES. THE CONFLICT PULSE CAN BE USED TO IDENTIFY INCREASED RISK OF GOVERNMENT REPRESSION; WHERE CIVILIAN RISK IS HIGH; WHERE THERE ARE THREATS TO THE GOVERNMENT; SHIFTS IN THE NUMBER OF NON-STATE, ARMED, ORGANIZED GROUPS THAT MAY BE ACTIVE; AND CHANGES TO DEMONSTRATION DYNAMICS. FINALLY, THE CONFLICT PULSE INTENDS TO DESIGN COMMON TRAJECTORIES AND PATTERNS TO POLITICAL INSTABILITY SEQUENCES. FINALLY THE PROJECT CONVENED AN EXPERT WORKSHOP IN BERLIN IN APRIL 2019.PROJECT TITLE: YEMEN DATA PROJECTDONOR: OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONIN THIS PROJECT ACLED AMIED TO SUPPORT THE YEMEN DATA PROJECT TO PRODUCE DATA ON VIOLENCE IN YEMEN IN REALTIME.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit, as set forth in the filing, is “The armed conflict location & event data project (acled) is a disaggregated conflict collection, analysis and crisis mapping project. acled collects the dates, actors, types of violence, locations, and fatalities of all reported political violence and protest events across africa, south asia, south east asia, the middle east. political violence and protest includes events that occur within civil wars and periods of instability, public protest and regime breakdown. acled's aim is to capture the forms, actors, dates and locations of political violence and protest as it occurs across states. the acled team conducts analysis to describe, explore and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open to freely use by the public.”.
When discussing its purpose, they were characterized as: “Acled is the highest quality, most widely used, realtime data and analysis source on political violence and protest in the developing world.”.
- The state in which the non-profit is legally authorized to operate is WI, as reported.
- The filing confirms that the non-profit's address in 2020 was 361 FALLS RD NO 501, GRAFTON, WI, 53024.
- The form of the non-profit reports 9 employees as of 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$9,822.
- The organization has 4 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 2013.
- The organization pays $452,097 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $24,213 in fundraising expenses.
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