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Advocacy NGO
Founder, President and CEO of ACLED; political scientist specializing in African and global conflict event data.
Funding & financing
ACLED operating budget from foundations, governments, and private donors.
Affiliations
ACLED executive leadership; academic appointments.
Disclosures & conflicts
ACLED discloses donor categories but not every funder by name. Event counts depend on open-source verification rules that may differ from UN or health-ministry fatality totals.
Credibility & caveats
Real-time event data widely cited in policy and media — coding choices are documented.
Cases in this record
This source informs the record’s methodology, data, or risk assessment rather than a specific case determination. See the methodology for how sources like this are used.
Sources & disclosures
- About ACLED — ACLED