EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Papua New Guinea
This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.
Between 18 Feb 2024 and 26 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 18 events of organised violence in Papua New Guinea from published sources. Their best estimate is 193 people killed — and their own range runs 179–252, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 179–252. On 1of these events UCDP’s own bounds do not bracket its own best estimate; the range above spans everything it published rather than hiding the conflict in the figures.
16 placed precisely enough to map; 2 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
63–72 · 1 ev
32–50 · 1 ev
30–68 · 4 ev
27–35 · 4 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 1 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 4 ev
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP range 63–72. UCDP's own estimate spans 63 to 72; 72 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
Ambulin, Lungupin, Nenei, Sau, Sau Walep, Yandam · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
Papua New Guinea, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer
Source
Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records Papua New Guinea under the name “Papua New Guinea”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.