The state of peace in
Bangladesh, decoded.
A 30-year incident database — every reported act of violence in Bangladesh since 1991, classified, geocoded, and tagged. Built by the Centre for Alternatives. Funded by UNDP.
Total events tracked
individual incidents · 1991 to today
By division
2026 so far
0
incidents this year
Coverage
0 / 8
divisions with data
Top category
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no data
Publications
115
reports + briefs
Publications
Recent work
Annual flagship reports, quarterly thematic briefs, and the monthly Peacegraphics newsletter.
Themes
Nine lenses on three decades of data
Every incident is tagged against one or more cross-cutting themes — the geographies, communities, and crises that define modern Bangladesh.
Rohingya Issue
Violence and displacement linked to Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee population, the world's largest stateless community.
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Chittagong Hill Tracts
Long-running tensions, indigenous rights, and land disputes across the three CHT districts.
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COVID-19
Pandemic-era incidents — health-policy enforcement, lockdown disputes, vaccine access.
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Elections
Pre- and post-election violence, intra-party clashes, and electoral irregularities.
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Hartal & Strikes
Political hartals and general strikes — the violence and economic disruption they generate.
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Cross-border
Incidents along the Bangladesh–India and Bangladesh–Myanmar frontiers: BGB engagements, smuggling, displacement.
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Violent Extremism
Politically and religiously motivated extremist violence, recruitment patterns, and counter-extremism responses.
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Violence against Minorities
Incidents targeting religious and ethnic minorities — Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and Bangladesh's adivasi communities.
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Sexual & Gender-based Violence
SGBV incidents tracked across domestic, communal, and institutional settings.
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Methodology
Sourced, coded, validated.
19 violence types · 10 motive categories · 9 cross-cutting themes. Every incident anchored to a date, division, district, upazila, and union, with a documented chain of custody from media report to public dataset.
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Source
Daily monitoring of Bangla and English-language print and online media, official statements, and partner-organisation reports.
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Code
Each incident is classified against the BPO taxonomy by trained coders. Location, perpetrator, target, casualty fields populated.
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Validate
Editorial review verifies sourcing, removes duplicates, tags cross-cutting themes, and admits the record into the public dataset.
The Observatory
Three decades of incident data.
Filterable. Shareable. Open.
Slice 0 incidents by date, violence type, actor, motive, and theme. Drill from national to upazila. Every view has a sharable URL.
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