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Review of Carnegie Endowment (2017): Global Protest Tracker

Version 1.0, published: May 15, 2025.

Nathalie Rathkamp


Main category: Protests
Curated by: Jan Matti Dollbaum
Dataset ownership has been transferred. Previous users: Nathalie Rathkamp (until March 31, 2025, 12:36 p.m.), Heiko Pleines (until April 1, 2025, 1:38 p.m.)
Additional categories: Civil Society And Interest Groups
Nathalie Rathkamp (2025): Review of Carnegie Endowment (2017): Global Protest Tracker (published on Discuss Data), v. 1.0, Discuss Data, https://doi.org/10.48320/2CB6C216-7D34-4B94-9992-2748C5C6A110

Description

The Global Protest Tracker is a project realized by Carnegie (Endowment for International Peace). The dataset covers over 700 significant anti-government protests worldwide (in 147 countries) in the time period from 2017 to the latest update in June 2024. As of summer 2024, work on the data collection seems to be continuing. Of the 700+ total entries in this dataset, there are 57 events listed for the countries of Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia covered by Discuss Data (1).
The data review includes a link to the official Global Protest Tracker website from which both the dataset, as well as all information listed here, is available.

Countries

Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Moldova Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan

Keywords

Corruption Protest Anti-Government Economic Political Covid 19

Language of data

English

Methods of data collection

Desk Research Event Data Text Coding