Conflict and Mediation Event Observations (CAMEO) is a framework for coding event data (typically used for events that merit news coverage, and generally applied to the study of political news and violence). It is a more recent alternative to the WEIS coding system developed by Charles A. McClelland and the Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB) coding system developed by
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History
Work on CAMEO began in 2000 at the
University of Kansas
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with financial support from the
National Science Foundation
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. The first paper on the subject, by Deborah J. Gerner was written for the March 2002 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association in
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(TABARI) software developed by co-author Philip A. Schrodt in 2000, and was in turn based on the
Kansas Event Data System
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(KEDS) developed in 1994.
The CAMEO manual describes the following key stages of the history of work on the project:
* Initial development of verb and actor ontology: (2000-2003): Deborah J. Gerner, Omur Yilmaz, Philip A. Schrodt
* Refinements of actor ontology (2004-2007): Dennis Hermrick, Baris Kesgin, Peter Picucci, Joseph Pull, Almas Sayeed, Sarah Stacey
* Organized Religion (2009-2011): Matthias Heilke
* Ethnic Groups (2011): Jay Yonamine, Benjamin Bagozzi
Alternatives
One of the alternatives to CAMEO is
Integrated Data for Events Analysis
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Edward Azar
Protracted social conflict is a technical term that generally refers to conflicts described by other researchers as ''protracted'' or ''intractable:'' complex, severe, commonly enduring, and often violent. The term was presented in a theory develo ...
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Some key differences between CAMEO and IDEA are:
* IDEA maintains backward compatibility with WEIS whereas CAMEO does not.
* CAMEO is focused on inter-state behavior, whereas IDEA encompasses a substantially broader range of behavior.
* The tertiary categories for IDEA are generally oriented towards the study of citizen direct action (for example strikes and protests), whereas the categories in CAMEO are oriented towards the study of third-party mediation in international and inter-ethnic conflict.
Reception
Academic reception
CAMEO has been the subject of a number of academic papers comparing it with other coding frameworks.