It is indicative of violence that has reached critical levels and spilled over to the political sphere, with 2023 shaping up to have the most significant levels of political violence in recent years. The event also comes as Ecuador faces an acute security crisis driven by increasing organized crime activity. The assassination marks a critical moment for Ecuador, just over a week before voters are set to elect a new president and 137 members of the National Assembly in snap elections scheduled for 20 August. Creating a dataset that codes the specific geographic location of armed conflict events will allow for both focusing at small-scale behavior and compiling information for larger geographical units that do not coincide with national boundaries.On 9 August, an armed man shot and killed Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at a campaign rally in the capital city, Quito. The dataset is part of the larger GROW-Net project, which aims to supplement the study of civil war with models and data that refer to other geographical units than the state. ACLED's disaggregation of civil war and transnational violent events allows for research on the local level factors and dynamics of civil conflict. In this version, the dataset covers 8 conflict countries in West and Central Africa from 1960 through 2004. The conflicts coded for in the dataset are in general compatible with the Uppsala/PRIO armed conflicts. The dataset also records one-sided violence on civilians by both government or rebel actors and conflicts between rebel groups. There is a specific focus on tracking rebel activity and distinguishing between territorial transfers of military control from governments to rebel groups and vice versa, and the location of rebel group bases, headquarters, strongholds and presence. The ACLED dataset codes exact locations, dates, and additional characteristics of individual battle events in states affected with civil war. This is an early version of the ACLED dataset, originally a joint PRIO project, but now a separate project.
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