Comparing local conflict dynamics (Lokale Konfliktdynamiken im Vergleich)
Protest events based on manual annotation of local newspapers

Study Title (long): ProLoc – German Local Protest Dataset

The German Local Protests dataset ProLoc includes all protest events reported in the major local newspapers of the four German cities Bremen, Dresden, Leipzig, and Stuttgart between 2000 and 2020, regardless of their objectives, along with a wide range of descriptive characteristics. The four cities share comparable demographics, with populations ranging from 500,000 to 600,000 inhabitants, and serve as major regional centres. At the same time, they differ in key aspects, including geographic location (East and West Germany) and the political orientation of their governments. ProLoc contains information on 8,190 distinct protest events and 9,621 protest claims made by protesters at these events. Through careful manual annotation of protest events based on local newspaper reporting, ProLoc provides much more detailed coverage of protest activities than existing datasets based on reporting in nationwide newspapers or news agency reports.