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Non-profit OrganizationsWisconsin, United States51-200 Employees
ACLED is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that runs a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project focused on political violence and protests worldwide. The organization collects information on dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and the types of reported political violence and protest events across the globe. ACLED conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios and makes both its data and analyses freely available for public use. ACLED was created in 2005 by Clionadh Raleigh as part of her PhD work, and since 2014 has operated as a Wisconsin-incorporated 501(c)(3) nonprofit NGO. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, United States (PO Box 260271, 53726), ACLED has 51–200 employees, maintains the website acleddata.com, and expanded its global coverage in 2022 to collect data in real time with weekly updates.