Conflict Index dashboard
The text you submitted is the scraped outline of ACLED's 'Conflict Index dashboard' web page.
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The text you submitted is the scraped outline of ACLED's 'Conflict Index dashboard' web page. It contains the site's menus, the footer, a cookie-consent box and a request to load an embedded Shiny app. The dashboard itself did not load, so the page makes no claims about conflict data. The only checkable claims are about what ACLED offers: the Conflict Index, Conflict Watchlist, Raleigh Report, regional pages, data tools, and its current crisis monitors for Iran, the Middle East, Mozambique, East Asian waters and Ukraine. ACLED's own pages, plus an X post from ACLED's official account, confirm the main ones. ACLED's own published material shows the Iran War Updates are current in 2026 and track US–Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran's retaliation since 28 February 2026. Independent sources (Media Bias/Fact Check, Wikipedia and a European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) report) describe ACLED as a credible, widely used, independent non-profit. Its known limits are about method rather than accuracy, for example it counts events differently from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). No claims were found to be false. A few minor items were not specifically checked and are marked Unverified. The score shows that the source is credible but the page has almost no factual content to assess. It is not a judgement on the conflict data shown inside the dashboard.
What checked out (13)
- C1 (high priority): This page is ACLED's 'Conflict Index dashboard'. ACLED hosts a page with that title, describing it as an interactive dashboard with tools, resources and data downloads for the Conflict Index (https://acleddata.com/platform/conflict-index-dashboard; https://acleddata.com/series/acled-conflict-index).
- C2 (high priority): ACLED publishes a Conflict Index. ACLED describes it as a global assessment of every country and territory against four measures: deadliness, danger to civilians, geographic spread and the number of armed groups. It ranks the 50 most severe conflicts (https://acleddata.com/series/acled-conflict-index; https://acleddata.com/general-guide/about-conflict-index).
- C3 (medium priority): ACLED publishes a Conflict Watchlist. The 2026 edition picks out 10 countries and regions expected to face armed conflict, unrest or humanitarian emergencies in 2026 (https://acleddata.com/series/conflict-watchlist-2026; https://acleddata.com/conflict-index-2026-watchlist).
- C4 (medium priority): The 'Raleigh Report' is a real ACLED series. It is a monthly commentary by ACLED CEO Prof. Clionadh Raleigh, with editions up to August 2026 (https://acleddata.com/series/raleigh-report). Wikipedia separately names Raleigh as founder and CEO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Conflict_Location_and_Event_Data).
- C5 (high priority, fast-changing): ACLED runs a current 'Iran War Updates' page. It maps US–Israeli attacks on Iran and Iranian retaliation and shows running strike totals since 28 February. It was updated with figures for 9–10 October 2026 (https://acleddata.com/iran-crisis-live). ACLED's March 2026 regional update says US–Israeli strikes on 28 February started a full-scale war (https://acleddata.com/update/middle-east-special-issue-march-2026).
- C6 (medium priority): ACLED runs a 'Middle East Conflict Monitor', an interactive map of all its Middle East data from 1 January 2024 onwards (https://acleddata.com/global-analysis/spotlight-areas; https://acleddata.com/region/gulf).
- C7 (medium priority): ACLED runs a 'Mozambique Conflict Monitor', formerly called Cabo Ligado, set up with Zitamar News and Mediacoop. It is still publishing in 2026 (https://acleddata.com/monitor/mozambique-conflict-monitor-cabo-ligado?page=,2; https://acleddata.com/update/mozambique-conflict-monitor-update-11-march-2026).
- C8 (medium priority): ACLED runs an 'East Asia Maritime Monitor', an interactive dashboard of maritime conflict and tension in regional waters including the South China Sea (https://acleddata.com/monitor/east-asia-maritime-monitor; https://acleddata.com/region/asia-pacific).
- C9 (medium priority): ACLED runs a 'Ukraine Conflict Monitor' with near real-time information, an interactive map, a curated data file and weekly updates (https://acleddata.com/monitor/ukraine-conflict-monitor; https://acleddata.com/region/europe-and-central-asia).
- C10 (low priority): The tagline 'Clarity in Crisis' appears on other ACLED pages (https://acleddata.com/taxonomy/term/124). An EUAA report cites an earlier ACLED tagline, 'Bringing clarity to crisis' (https://www.euaa.europa.eu/coi-report-afghanistan-country-focus/sources-security-incidents).
- C11 (low priority): ACLED has a 'Knowledge Base' in its Conflict data section, which includes a user guide for the East Asia Maritime Monitor (https://acleddata.com/conflict-data/knowledge-base).
- C12 (low priority): The regional sections 'Africa', 'Asia-Pacific' and 'Europe and Central Asia' exist on ACLED's site (https://acleddata.com/region/africa; https://acleddata.com/region/asia-pacific; https://acleddata.com/region/europe-and-central-asia).
- C13 (low priority): The '© 2026 ACLED' notice fits the dates on ACLED's own pages, which carry content dated up to October 2026 (https://acleddata.com/iran-crisis-live).
Unverified claims 4 claims ⌄
- U1 (low priority): The 'Data Export Tool', 'Download data files', 'Data platforms' and 'API guide' menu items. These were not searched for individually. They are very likely real given ACLED's data-sharing model, but no source was opened to confirm them.
- U2 (low priority): The regional sections 'Latin America and the Caribbean', 'Middle East' and 'US and Canada'. No page for these sections was opened. (A Gulf sub-regional page was seen, but it does not confirm the 'Middle East' section page itself.)
- U3 (low priority): The dashboard is built as an embedded Shiny app (from the 'Load external content supplied by Shiny apps?' prompt). This was not independently confirmed.
- U4 (scope limit): The Conflict Index rankings and figures inside the dashboard could not be assessed, because the embedded content did not load in the submitted text. ACLED's series page currently headlines 'Palestine, Mexico, and Ukraine are the most dangerous places in the world', but that statement is not in the submitted content and was not adjudicated.
Sources & how we checked Search journal, source grades, confidence ⌄
Confidence
High (on the claims that were checked); Moderate (on the page as a whole) — All high-priority claims were confirmed directly against the publisher's own dated 2026 pages, and independent assessments back the publisher's credibility. No contradicting evidence was found. Overall confidence is lower for three reasons: (1) the main content of the page, the dashboard data, was missing and could not be assessed; (2) four minor items were not checked individually; and (3) the evidence comes from search-result extracts, not full manual page review.
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ACLED Conflict Index dashboard
- https://acleddata.com/series/acled-conflict-index
- https://acleddata.com/platform/conflict-index-dashboard
- https://acleddata.com/general-guide/about-conflict-index
ACLED Iran War Updates
- https://acleddata.com/iran-crisis-live
- https://acleddata.com/update/middle-east-special-issue-march-2026
- https://acleddata.com/update/middle-east-overview-april-2026
ACLED Raleigh Report
- https://acleddata.com/series/raleigh-report
- https://acleddata.com/newsletter/raleigh-report-march-2026
ACLED Conflict Watchlist 2026
- https://acleddata.com/series/conflict-watchlist-2026
- https://acleddata.com/conflict-index-2026-watchlist
ACLED East Asia Maritime Monitor
- https://acleddata.com/monitor/east-asia-maritime-monitor
- https://acleddata.com/region/asia-pacific
- https://acleddata.com/conflict-data/knowledge-base
ACLED Mozambique Conflict Monitor
- https://acleddata.com/monitor/mozambique-conflict-monitor-cabo-ligado?page=,2
- https://acleddata.com/region/africa
- https://acleddata.com/update/mozambique-conflict-monitor-update-11-march-2026
ACLED Ukraine Conflict Monitor
- https://acleddata.com/monitor/ukraine-conflict-monitor
- https://acleddata.com/region/europe-and-central-asia
ACLED Middle East Conflict Monitor
- https://acleddata.com/global-analysis/spotlight-areas
- https://acleddata.com/region/gulf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Conflict_Location_and_Event_Data
ACLED "Clarity in Crisis"
- https://acleddata.com/taxonomy/term/124
- https://www.euaa.europa.eu/coi-report-afghanistan-country-focus/sources-security-incidents
ACLED Conflict Index Palestine Mexico Ukraine most dangerous Reuters
- https://x.com/ACLEDINFO/status/1999056515550818395
- https://acleddata.com/report/conflict-index-results-december-2024
- https://schoolsforchiapas.org/mexico-most-dangerous-non-warring-country-in-2025-acled/
ACLED data criticism methodology reliability
- https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/acled-armed-conflict-location-event-data-project-bias-and-credibility/
- https://acleddata.com/methodology/overview-acleds-data-enhancement-projects-and-known-data-limitations
- https://reliefweb.int/report/world/updates-armed-conflict-location-event-data-project-acled-october-2020
ACLED independent nonprofit organisation funding
- https://acleddata.com/press-office-faqs
- https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/470972683
- https://mptf.undp.org/participating-organizations/acled