Violations of religious freedoms, and violence aimed at religious communities and sites are usually recorded and reported by the media and various research projects as part of a larger phenomenon. This creates a situation where such incidents might be overlooked or alluded to only in passing. Incidents could also be covered on a macro level, disregarding many of the variables which led to them unfolding the way they did, as well as the unique characteristics and circumstances of the incidents themselves.
The Violent Incidents Database (VID) exclusively records incidents of religious freedom violations and allows for a high degree of granularity when exploring and analyzing the data. This includes synthesizing various variables which correspond to location and its dimensions. For example, not only is the country where the incident took place was recorded but also the State/Department, and when possible, the city. This enables analysis on the subnational level and fa-cilitates comparisons between incidents of similar characteristics occurring within the same country, leading to more detailed and informed insights. The following report will provide a few examples of subnational insights using data in the VID.
