IDEA Category |
IDEA Name and Description |
CAMEO Name |
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A&E Performance |
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Accident |
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Accuse |
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Accuse
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Criticize or denounce |
| Blame, find fault, censure, rebuke, "whistle blowing," vilify, defame, denigrate, condemn and name-calling. |
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Criticize or denounce
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Agree |
Agree |
| All agreements not otherwise specified. |
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Agree, not specified below
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Agree or accept |
| Accept invitations and proposals, not otherwise specified. |
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Agree to mediation |
| Agree to or express willingess to accept mediation of a conflict. The target of this event form is the mediator. |
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Agree to mediation
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Agree to negotiate |
| Agree to or express willingness to engage in talks or negotiations. |
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Agree to meet or negotiate
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Agree to peacekeeping |
| Agree to or express willingness to accept peacekeeping forces in one's territory. Includes agreeing to weapons inspections. |
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Agree to peacekeeping
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Agree to settlement |
| Agree to or express willingness to accept a comprehensive peace proposal, settlement or resolution. |
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Agree to settlement
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Collaborate |
| Form alliance, or associate with, merge, join, accompany, and coordinate activities; includes extraditions. |
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Improve relations, not specified below
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CAMEO also refers to its "improve relations" cue category as "cooperate." See the Gerner et.al. ISA 2002 paper describing CAMEO. |
Animal attack |
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Animal death |
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Animal illness |
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Cognitive state |
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Comment |
Acknowledge responsibility |
| Non-apologetically admit an error or wrongdoing, retract a statement without expression of remorse, or claim responsibility. |
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Acknowledge or claim responsibility
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Comment |
| Event narrations and all comments not otherwise specified. |
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Comment, not specified below
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Decline comment |
| Explicit decline or refusal to comment on a situation. |
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Decline comment
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Optimistic comment |
| Comment on situation that is explicitly characterized as optimistic. |
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Make optimistic comment
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IDEA distinguishes between optimistic comments (024) and assurances (054). |
Pessimistic comment |
| Comment on situation that is explicitly characterized as pessimistic. |
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Make pessimistic comment
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Complain |
Complain |
| All disapprovals, objections and complaints not otherwise
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Disapprove, not specified below
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Formally complain |
| Written and institutionalized protests and appeals, and all petition drives and recalls. |
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Official protest
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IDEA's formally complain event form is not actor bound (to governmental actors). |
Informally complain |
| Verbal protests and rebukes, and all other informal complaints. |
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Disapprove, not specified below
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Consult |
Consult |
| All consultations not otherwise specified. |
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Consult, not specified below
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Discussion |
| Meetings (at any location), consultations and negotiations, in person or via telecommunications; includes talks, exchanges of gifts and other formal communications. This event form is a residual, not coded unless its sub-distinctions cannot be made. |
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Engage in negotiation |
| Negotiate with other parties on particular issues. |
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Engage in negotiation
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Host a meeting |
| Hosting a visitor at one's residence, office or home country. |
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Host a visit
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Mediate talks |
| Mediate between two or more parties; the source of this event form is the mediator. |
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Engage in mediation
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Travel to meet |
| The act of traveling to visit another location for a meeting or other event. Also includes the return travel. |
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Make a visit
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Demand |
Demand |
| All demands and issuances of orders. |
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Demand, not specified below
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Demand aid |
| Require or demand assistance or (material) support. |
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Demand aid
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Demand ceasefire |
| Require or demand halting of military engagement. |
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Demand ceasefire
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Demand information |
| Require or demand information or investigation. |
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Demand information, investigation
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Demand mediation |
| Require or demand that a third party to mediate a conflict. |
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Demand mediation
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Demand meeting |
| Require or demand that a party meet to discuss or negotiate. |
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Demand meeting, negotiation
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Demand policy support |
| Require or demand policy (non-tangible) support. |
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Demand policy support
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Demand protection, peacekeeping |
| Require or demand protection in form of military, police, or
peacekeeping monitors/observers. |
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Demand protection, peacekeeping
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Demand rights |
| Require or demand civil, political, cultural, socio-economic
or human rights in general for persons or groups. |
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Demand rights
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Demand withdrawal |
| Require or demand withdrawal from an area. |
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Demand withdrawal
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Investigate human rights abuses |
| Inquiring or searching into human rights abuses such as rape, torture, targeted assassinations, and violations of basic freedoms in
general. |
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Investigate human rights abuses
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Investigate war crimes |
| Inquire or search into military activities or war crimes such as military attacks, killings, massacres, or seizures. |
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Investigate military action
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Demonstrate |
Armed force activation |
| Activation of all or part of previously inactive armed forces. |
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Military mobilization
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Armed force mobilization |
| All armed force mobilizations not otherwise. |
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Military posturing, not specified below
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Border fortification |
| Explicit attempt to publicly demonstrate control over a border area. |
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Military demonstration, display
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Demonstrate |
| Demonstrations not otherwise specified. |
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Civilian direct action, not specified below
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Since IDEA's event forms are not actor bound (in this case to the civil sector), a post-coding filter procedure on the actor is required to match the CAMEO codes for all event forms in this cue category. |
Protest altruism |
| Protest demonstrations that place the source (protestor) at risk for the sake of unity with the target. |
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Hunger strike
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IDEA's protest altruism event form is not limited to hunger strikes. |
Protest defacement |
| Damage, sabotage and the use of graffiti to desecrate property and symbols. |
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Civilian direct action, not specified below
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IDEA distinguishes between sabotage and graffiti (1813), and leafleting (1815) |
Protest demonstrations |
| All protest demonstrations not otherwise specified. |
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Demonstrate
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Protest obstruction |
| Sit-ins and other non-military occupation protests. |
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Physical obstruction
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Protest procession |
| Picketing and other parading protests. |
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Demonstrate
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Deny |
Deny |
| All denials of accusations. |
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Reject accusation, deny responsibility
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Economic activity |
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Government default on payments |
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Private default on payments |
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Economic status |
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Downward trend in interest rates |
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Earnings above expectations |
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Earnings below expectations |
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Upward trend in interest rates |
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Endorse |
Apologize |
| Express regret or remorse for an action or situation. |
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Apologize
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Empathize |
| Express condolences, offer sympathy; includes attending funerals and other similar ceremonial events. |
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Make empathetic comment
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Endorse |
| All endorsements not otherwise specified. |
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Approve, not specified below
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Forgive |
| Express forgiveness and explicitly conciliatory actions to rebuild a relationship or rectify a situation. Includes pardons and the granting of amnesty. |
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Forgive
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Praise |
| Praise, hail or laud someone, something or some practice/policy. |
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Praise or endorse
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Ratify a decision |
| Ratify or accede to an agreement or treaty; the target of a ratify event is the decision or document being ratified as opposed to the parties to the argreement. |
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Sign formal agreement
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Expel |
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Expel, not specified below
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Force Use |
Armed actions |
| Ambiguous initiation of the use of armed forces to fire upon another armed force, population or territory. |
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Use of conventional force, not specified below
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Armed battle |
| Initiation of armed hostilities or engagement between two or more armed forces, includes truce violations (use as default for war and battles). |
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Artillery attack |
| Use of short to intermediate range tank-mounted, ship-based or field guns and cannons, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. |
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Artillery and tank attack
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Unlike CAMEO, IDEA includes portable "light weapons" that operate like artillery as artillery, thereby separating them from small arms attacks. |
Assassination |
| Murder that is explicitly characterized as political killing and assassination. |
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Murder or political assasination
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IDEA codes all killings explicitly characterized as political. CAMEO codes this event form only "when the weapons used to kill are not specified." |
Beatings |
| Beatings (physical assaults without the use of weapons). |
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Non-lethal physical assault, not specified below
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Bodily punishment |
| The infliction of bodily injury, death or pain for the explicit purpose of punishment. Contrast this physical sanction with force used to extract information (torture, code 2225). |
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Use of unconventional violence, not specified below
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CAMEO event form 180 includes the "use of unconventional force, coercion… and threats of terrorism…" and as such is difficult to map to a single category. |
Chem-bio attack |
| Use of chemical or biological weapons. |
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CBR attack
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CAMEO's "radiative weapons" are coded as nuclear by IDEA. |
Coups and mutinies |
| Coups, mutiny and other rebellion by armed forces. |
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Use of conventional force, not specified below
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Crowd control |
| Mobilization or use of compliance force by police, military and others for crowd control. |
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Military mobilization
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Force Use |
| All uses of physical force not otherwise specified. Includes material property destruction, acts of physical sabatage, and other acts of material damage not otherwise specified. |
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Use of conventional force, not specified below
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Mine explosion |
| Land and underwater mine explosions. |
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Missile attack |
| Launching of intermediate to long-range conventional ballistic missiles and aerial dropping of conventional explosive devices or bombs. |
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Aerial assault
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Unlike CAMEO, IDEA does not restrict aerial assaults to those "that involve the use of military aircraft." |
Nuclear attack |
| Use of radioactive or nuclear weapons, both explosive and otherwise. |
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Nuclear attack
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IDEA codes radioactive weapons as nuclear rather than as chem-bio weapons. |
Physical assault |
| All uses of non-armed physical force in assaults against people not otherwise specified. |
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Non-lethal physical assault, not specified below
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Riot |
| Civil or political unrest explicitly characterized as riots, as well as behavior presented as tumultuous or mob-like. This behavior includes looting, prison uprisings, crowds setting things on fire, general fighting with police (typically by protestors), lynch mob assemblies, ransacking offices, embassies, etc., football riots and stampedes. |
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Violent protest, riot
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Sexual assault |
| Rape and other sexual assaults. |
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Sexual assault
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Small arms attack |
| Shooting of small arms, light weapons and small explosives, including the use of all handguns, light machine guns, rifles and hand grenades. |
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Small arms and light weapons attack
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IDEA separates small arms from "light weapons;" the latter are coded as artillery. |
Suicide bombing |
| A bombing in which the bomber perishes during detonation of the explosive. |
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Suicide, car, and other bombing
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IDEA codes only suicide bombings as such; CAMEO uses this event form "to code for all kinds of bombings." |
Torture |
| Maiming and all other reports explicitly characterized as torture. Contrast this force used to extract information from physical sanctions for punishment (2223). |
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Torture
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Unconventional weapons attack |
| All uses of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), including chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons use, not otherwise specified. Includes all intentional, generic poisonings of individuals and groups (code to Chem-bio attack if a chemical or biological poison is identified). Also includes throwing corrosive materials (e.g., acid) at individuals. The detection by authorities of an unconventional weapon (e.g., finding anthrax spores) is coded to Security alert. |
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Massive Unconventional Force
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Vehicle bombing |
| Bombing explicitly characterized as a vehicle bombing (car bombing, etc.), except for suicide bombings, which are coded separately. |
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Suicide, car, and other bombing
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IDEA codes only suicide bombings as such; CAMEO uses this event form "to code for all kinds of bombings." |
Grant |
De-mining |
| Removal of land mines from an area or territory. |
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Provide humanitarian aid, not specified below
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Demobilize armed forces |
| Stand down or withdrawal of any armed force (includes military, police, crowd control, insurgent forces), reduce or eliminate arms or weapons. |
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Demobilize armed forces
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Ease economic sanctions |
| Lift, relax or lessen economic sanctions or penalties. |
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Ease economic boycotts or sanctions
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Ease military blockade |
| Interrupt, suspend, terminate or lessen a military force blockade |
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Ease, stop military blockade
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Ease sanctions |
| Interrupt, suspend, terminate or lessen a sanction, reduce fine or penalty, return property and withdrawal of troops. |
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Ease non-force sanctions, not specified below
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Evacuate victims |
| The removal of victims or their remains. The reported receipt of victims or remains constitutes a remove victims event with actors reversed. |
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Provide humanitarian aid, not specified below
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Extend invitation |
| Extend an invitation to visit. The reported receipt of such invitations constitutes an extend invitation event with actors reversed. |
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Improve relations, not specified below
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CAMEO also refers to its "improve relations" cue category as "cooperate." See the Gerner et.al. ISA 2002 paper describing CAMEO. |
Grant |
| All grants not otherwise specified. The reported receipt of such grants constitutes a grant event with actors reversed. |
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CAMEO also refers to its "improve relations" cue category as "cooperate." See the Gerner et.al. ISA 2002 paper describing CAMEO. |
Grant asylum |
| Grant asylum. The source of this interaction is the "protector" and the target of the interaction is the "protectee." |
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Grant asylum
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Improve relations |
| Begin, improve or resume an activity or relations, extend diplomatic or other formal recognition. |
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Grant diplomatic recognition
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IDEA's improve relations event form (064) is not actor bound (to governmental actors) |
Observe truce |
| Observe or declare a truce or cease-fire during an armed (military) engagement. |
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Ceasefire, observe truce
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Provide shelter |
| Extend refuge or shelter to a victim or party in flight. This event form category contains sub-forms for more detailed coding whenever possible. |
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Provide humanitarian aid, not specified below
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Relax administrative sanction |
| Lifting, relaxation or lessening of administrative sanctions or penalties, including capital and corporal punishment. |
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Ease administrative sanctions
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Relax censorship |
| Relax, ban or remove political censorship. |
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Ease non-force sanctions, not specified below
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Relax curfew |
| Relax or lift curfews, martial law and other such political restrictions. |
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Release or return |
| Return, release, not otherwise specified |
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Return, release, not specified below
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Return, release person(s) |
| Release people from detention, arrest or abduction. |
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Return, release person(s)
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Return, release property |
| Return or release previously controlled, confiscated property. |
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Return, release property
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Human death |
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Human illness |
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Non-infectious human illness |
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Natural disaster |
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Extreme climactic condition |
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Other animal incident |
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Other human action |
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Executive adjustment |
| All routine executive adjustments, including hirings and terminations, in both the public and private sector. |
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Announce Routine Activity
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IDEA distinguishes between economic transactions (2311 & 2312) and administrative adjustments (292); thus, the first CAMEO example codes to IDEA event code 2312. Also, IDEA codes the second CAMEO example to ratify a decision (046). |
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Other human condition |
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Other incident |
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Promise |
Assure |
| Assure or reassure that some promised or ongoing support or positive interest will continue. |
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Make optimistic comment
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IDEA distinguishes between optimistic comments (024) and assurances (054). |
Promise |
| All promises not otherwise specified. |
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Agree, not specified below
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Promise economic support |
| Promise of economic or financial assistance. |
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Agree to provide economic support
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Promise humanitarian support |
| Promise of emergency relief supplies or assistance. |
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Agree to provide humanitarian support
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Promise material support |
| Promise of material support, including economic or financial assistance, armaments or armed assistance or emergency relief supplies or assistance. |
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Agree to provide material support, not specified below
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Promise military support |
| Promise of armaments or military assistance. |
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Agree to provide military support
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Promise policy support |
| Promise of non-material support. |
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Agree to provide policy support
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Promise to mediate |
| Promise to or commit to mediate
among adversaries. |
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Agree to mediate
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Propose |
Offer peace proposal |
| Offer incentives for peace, suggest talks, propose resolution. |
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Request or propose settlement
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Offer to mediate |
| Propose, suggest or offer to mediate. |
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Propose to mediate
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Offer to Negotiate |
| Propose or put forth plans to meet, negotiate or discuss
a situation or an issue. |
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Request or propose to meet or negotiate
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Propose |
| All proposals not otherwise specified. |
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Request or propose, not specified below
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Reject |
Break law |
| All crime where the threat or use of force is not involved; includes "white collar" crime. |
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Defy norms, law
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IDEA distinguishes among flee (1131), disclosing (1132) and crime (1133). |
Defy norms |
| Open defiance of laws and norms, civil disobedience. Also includes the establishment of alternative institutions. |
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Disclose information |
| Publicly reveal personal or sensitive information, to "out" someone. |
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IDEA distinguishes among flee (1131), disclosing (1132) and crime (1133). |
Impose censorship |
| Limit or curb any expression of ideas, including material, objects that are considered obscene, objectionable or harmful. |
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Impose censorship
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Impose restrictions |
| Declare martial law or curfew, and the imposition of similar political restrictions on civil activities. |
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Impose curfew
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Political flight |
| Flee, hide, defect or escape from capture or seizure. |
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Defy norms, law
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IDEA distinguishes among flee (1131), disclosing (1132) and crime (1133). |
Refuse to allow |
| Disagree or object, refuse to allow or acknowledge, restrict or suspend liberties. |
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Administrative sanctions, not specified below
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Reject |
| All rejections not otherwise specified. |
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Reject, not specified below
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Reject ceasefire |
| Reject a proposal or request to implement ceasefire, truce. |
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Reject ceasefire
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Reject mediation |
| Refuse involvement of mediators, mediation initiatives. |
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Reject mediation
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Reject peacekeeping |
| Reject a proposal or request to send or receive peacekeeping forces. |
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Reject peacekeeping
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Reject proposal |
| Rejections of particular proposals not otherwise specified. |
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Reject proposal, not specified below
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Reject proposal to meet |
| Refuse to meet, discuss, or negotiate. |
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Reject proposal to meet, discuss, negotiate
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Reject request for material aid |
| Refuse to extend material aid. |
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Reject request for material aid
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Reject settlement |
| Reject a proposal or request for a final, comprehensive settlement,
peace proposal, resolution. |
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Reject settlement
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Veto |
| Refuse to assent to formal rejection of legislative bill, recommendation or resolution. |
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Veto
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Request |
Ask for armed assistance |
| Specific request for armed assistance, including peacekeeping forces. |
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Request or propose military aid
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Ask for economic aid |
| Specific request for economic assistance. |
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Request or propose economic aid
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Ask for humanitarian aid |
| Specific request for humanitarian assistance. |
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Request or propose humanitarian aid
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Ask for material aid |
| Ask for material assistance, economic aid and armaments. |
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Request or propose material aid, not specified below
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Call for action |
| Urge others to mobilize politically and calls for social action. |
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Request or propose policy support
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Investigate |
| Investigate, not otherwise specified |
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Investigate, not specified below
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Request |
| All requests not otherwise specified. |
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Request or propose, not specified below
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Request an investigation |
| Request an investigation or inquiry. |
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Request or propose investigation or information
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Request mediation |
| Solicit, ask or call for third party/ies to mediate. |
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Request mediation
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Request protection |
| Ask for shelter or protection, seek asylum or request refugee status. |
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Request or propose protection or peacekeeping
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Request withdrawal or ceasefire |
| Request withdrawal or ceasefire. |
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Request withdrawal or ceasefire
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Solicit support |
| Request political support or solicit political influence, including electoral campaigning and lobbying. |
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Request or propose policy support
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Reward |
Extend economic aid |
| Extending (must include the delivery) monetary aid and financial guarantees, grants, gifts and credit. The reported receipt of such aid constitutes an extend aid event with actors reversed. |
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Provide economic aid
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Extend humanitarian aid |
| Extending non-military / non-economic assistance, including civil training, development assistance, education & training. The reported receipt of such aid constitutes an extend aid event with actors reversed. |
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Provide humanitarian aid, not specified below
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Extend military aid |
| Extending military and police assistance, including arms and personnel, includes both military and police peacekeeping. The reported receipt of such aid constitutes an extend aid event with actors reversed. |
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Provide military aid
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Rally support |
| Gatherings to express or demonstrate support, celebrations and all other public displays of confidence; includes protest vigils and commemorations. |
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Symbolic act
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Reward |
| All rewards not otherwise specified. The reported receipt of such rewards constitutes a reward event with actors reversed. |
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Provide aid, not specified below
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Sanction |
Armed force blockade |
| Use of armed forces to seal off a territory to prevent exit or entry of goods or personnel. |
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Military closure or blockade
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Break relations |
| Formal severance of ties, including declarations of independence, divorce and protest resignations. |
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Reduce or break diplomatic relations
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Unlike CAMEO, IDEA's break relations event form is not actor bound (to governmental actors). |
Declare war |
| Formal or official statement that a state of war exists. |
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Halt discussions |
| Halting of talks or other meetings not otherwise specified. |
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Halt negotiations
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Halt mediation |
| Halting of mediated talks or meetings. |
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Halt mediation
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Halt negotiation |
| Halting of talks or other non-mediated meetings. |
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Halt negotiations
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Reduce or stop aid |
| Reductions or terminations of aid not otherwise specified. |
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Reduce or stop aid, not specified below
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Reduce or stop economic assistance |
| Decrease or terminate provision of economic aid. |
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Reduce or stop economic assistance
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Reduce or stop humanitarian assistance |
| Decrease or terminate provision of humanitarian aid. |
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Reduce or stop humanitarian assistance
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Reduce or stop military assistance |
| Decrease or terminate provision of military aid. |
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Reduce or stop military assistance
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Reduce or stop peacekeeping |
| Decrease or terminate provision of peacekeeping forces. |
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Reduce or stop peacekeeping
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Reduce routine activity |
| Reduction of routine and planned activities, including cancellations, recalls and postponements typically presented as a protest against the routine. |
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Reduce relations, not specified below
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Sanction |
| All sanctions not otherwise specified. |
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Strikes and boycotts |
| Labor and professional sanctions reported as strikes, general strikes, walkouts, withholding of goods or services and lockouts. |
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Strike, boycott
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Unlike CAMEO, IDEA's strikes and boycotts event form (196) is not actor bound (to governmental or civil society actors). |
Strikes and boycotts |
| Labor and professional sanctions reported as strikes, general strikes, walkouts, withholding of goods or services and lockouts. |
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Strikes and boycotts
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Unlike CAMEO, IDEA's strikes and boycotts event form (196) is not actor bound (to governmental or civil society actors). |
Seize |
Abduction |
| Abducting, hijacking and capturing of people. |
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Abduction, hijacking
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Armed force border violation |
| Belligerent crossing by armed forces, without engagement, of a recognized boundary. |
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Military demonstration, display
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Armed force occupation |
| Use of armed forces to take over or occupy the whole or part of a territory. |
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Military occupation
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Arrest and detention |
| All arrests and detentions not explicitly characterized as either political or criminal. |
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Arrest and detention
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Covert monitoring |
| Spying and other covert intelligence gathering operations. |
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Use of unconventional violence, not specified below
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CAMEO event form 180 includes the "use of unconventional force, coercion… and threats of terrorism…" and as such is difficult to map to a single category. |
Criminal arrests |
| Arrests and detentions explicitly characterized as criminal. |
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Arrest and detention
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CAMEO combines criminal and political arrests whereas IDEA uses separate codes, 2121 and 2122. |
Hijacking |
| All commandeerings of vehicles. |
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Use of unconventional violence, not specified below
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CAMEO event form 180 includes the "use of unconventional force, coercion… and threats of terrorism…" and as such is difficult to map to a single category. |
Hostage taking and kidnapping |
| Hostage taking or kidnapping of people. |
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CAMEO event form 180 includes the "use of unconventional force, coercion… and threats of terrorism…" and as such is difficult to map to a single category. |
Political arrests |
| Arrests and detentions, explicitly characterized as political. |
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Arrest and detention
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CAMEO combines criminal and political arrests whereas IDEA uses separate codes, 2121 and 2122. |
Seize |
| All seizures not otherwise specified. |
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Violence against property, not specified below
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Seize possession |
| Take control of positions or possessions. |
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Confiscation of property
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Sports contest |
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Threaten |
Armed force threats |
| All threats to use armed force. |
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Threaten conventional attack
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Give ultimatum |
| Threats conveyed explicitly as an ultimatum. |
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Give ultimatum
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Non-specific threats |
| Threats without specific negative sanctions, including all intimidation, harassment and stalking. |
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Threaten, not specified below
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Other physical force threats |
| All threats to use non-armed, physical force. |
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Sanctions threat |
| Threats of non-military, non-physical force social, economic and political sanctions. |
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Threaten, non-force, not specified below
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Threaten |
| All threats, coercive warnings not otherwise specified. |
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Threaten, not specified below
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Threaten biological or chemical attack |
| Explicit threat to use biological or chemical weapon against armed forces, a population or territory. |
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Threaten unconventional attack
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IDEA distinguishes between nuclear and chem-bio attack threats whereas CAMEO combines them together as unconventional; adding IDEA event form 1735 (threaten chem-bio attack) makes them equivalent |
Threaten forceful attack |
| Explicit threat to use armed forces in an attack or invasion. |
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Threaten conventional attack
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Threaten forceful blockade |
| Explicit threat to use armed ships, airplanes or forces to prevent entry or exit. |
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Threaten blockade
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Threaten forceful occupation |
| Explicit threat to use armed forces to occupy the whole or part of a territory. |
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Threaten occupation
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Threaten nuclear attack |
| Explicit threat to use a nuclear or radioactive weapon against armed forces, a population or territory. |
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Threaten unconventional attack
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IDEA distinguishes between nuclear and chem-bio attack threats whereas CAMEO combines them together as unconventional; adding IDEA event form 1736 (threaten chem-bio attack) makes them equivalent |
Threaten to boycott or embargo |
| Threaten to boycott or impose embargoes, restrict normal
interactions presented explicitly as a protest or retaliatory measure. |
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Threaten to boycott or embargo
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Threaten to halt mediation |
| Threaten to halt mediation activities. |
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Threaten to halt mediation
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Threaten to halt negotiations |
| Threaten to halt unmediated discussions, negotiations, or meetings. |
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Threaten to halt negotiations
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Threaten to reduce or break relations |
| Threaten to reduce or formally sever ties. |
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Threaten to reduce or break relations
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Threaten to reduce or stop aid |
| Threaten to reduce or stop the giving of aid. |
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Threaten to reduce or stop aid
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Threaten war |
| Explicit threat to declare a state of (military) war. |
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Threaten, not specified below
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Warn |
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Military alert
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Armed force air display |
| Public demonstrations, maneuvers, exercises or testing of airborne armed force capabilities not involving combat operations. |
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Military demonstration, display
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IDEA distinguishes among airborne demonstrations (1621), naval demonstrations (1622) and (land force demonstrations (1623) |
Armed force alert |
| Reported increase in the readiness of any armed force. |
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Military alert
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Armed force display |
| All armed force displays not otherwise specified. |
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Military demonstration, display
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Armed force naval display |
| Public demonstrations, maneuvers, exercises or testing of naval armed forces not involving combat operations. |
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IDEA distinguishes among airborne demonstrations (1621), naval demonstrations (1622) and (land force demonstrations (1623) |
Armed force troops display |
| Public demonstrations, maneuvers, exercises or testing land based armed forces not involving combat operations. |
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IDEA distinguishes among airborne demonstrations (1621), naval demonstrations (1622) and (land force demonstrations (1623) |
Nuclear alert or test |
| Reported increase in readiness of a nuclear force and nuclear testing. |
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Military posturing, not specified below
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Security alert |
| The release of information relevant to citizen safety, generally initiated at the national level. This includes the issuing of Amber alerts, raising of the Terror Threat Level, precautionary evacuations of embassies, buildings, personnel, and the like.This also relates to the discovery any ams or dangerous situations (e.g., discovery of unexploded ordnance). |
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Investigate crime, corruption
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Threaten, not specified below
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Yield |
Yield |
| All yielding not otherwise specified. |
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Yield, not specified below
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Yield position |
| Yield control of a location, retreat, give up possession of material. |
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Military retreat or surrender
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IDEA's yield position event form is not actor bound (to military actors). |
Yield to order |
| Surrender, yield to order, submit to arrest, cede power. |
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Agree to yield
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