Using Event Data to Monitor Contemporary Conflict in the Israel-Palestine Dyad Philip A. Schrodt, Deborah J. Gerner, and Ömür Yilmaz Department of Political Science University of Kansas 1541 Lilac Lane Lawrence, KS 66044-3177 USA March 2004 schrodt@ku.edu, gerner@ku.edu, omury@mail.ku.edu phone: +1.785.864.3523 fax: +1.785.864.5700 KEDS project web site: http://www.ku.edu/~keds FAST project web site: http://www.swisspeace.org/fast/ Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 2004. This research was supported in part by the swisspeace FAST Project. We would like to thank Heinz Krummenacher and Vera Troeger of swisspeace for their continued support for, and assistance with, this project. Bradley Lewis and Lauren Prather at the University of Kansas assisted in the updating of the event data sets. The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the swisspeace or the FAST Project The data sets, and software discussed in this paper, as well as a pdf version of the paper, can be downloaded from the KEDS project web site: http://www.ku.edu/~keds. © 2004 by the authors