When recording sexual violence, an event can involve one to many victims: one person sexually assaulted by a soldier in a specific town on a certain day would be coded as a single event. It does not include sexual violence stemming from domestic, interpersonal, or intimate partner violence occurring outside of the political/public sphere these events are outside of ACLED’s mandate and such violence (sexual or not) is not captured within the ACLED dataset.ĪCLED is an event-based dataset, meaning that each entry in the dataset is an ‘event’ events are denoted by the involvement of designated actors, occurring in a specific named location and on a specific day (for further information regarding ACLED’s unit of observation, see the ACLED codebook). The category includes events targeting women, men, and children. Events are recorded during ‘war time’ or in periods of political instability more broadly, where the use of sexual violence as a strategy to reinforce power structures is not unusual. Sexual violence events captured within the ACLED dataset include “sexual violence in conflict” or “conflict-related sexual violence”, such was war-time rape in addition to other sexual crimes perpetrated by an armed, organized actor. ![]() This sub-event type includes all political/public violence of a sexual nature. With the release of its new sub-event type categorization ACLED now includes a ‘Sexual violence’ sub-event type under the larger ‘Violence against civilians’ event type.
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