1. ICE Search and Sort Tool
Jim Lee, American University, March, 2017

2. 1. The Field of Environmental Conflict: Does it Exist?
Why Do Disciplines Grow?
How Do We Know They Exist?
Blended Fields
Environment and Conflict Go by Many Names
There are Case Databases of Environment and Conflict
There are Some Agreed Upon Relationships
There are Some Agreed Upon Frameworks
Environmental Conflict Will be a Growing Field
Need for a set of Environmental Conflict Cases

3. 2. Coding the Inventory of Conflict and Environment Cases (ICE) Cases
About cases studies; categorical; reliability; verification
Data sources and category frameworks for Searching
Pattern Matching System
Conflict Data Sources
Environment Data Sources
Who Did the Cases?
Framework: Basic Info, Environment, Conflict, Overlap, Related Info
I have developed a coding sheet and have tried to ensure some level of coder reliability.

4. 3. The ICE Search and Sort Tool (SST)
ICE-SST Site:
Basic Case Search (no scenario)
Can Download as CSV
Data Are Category Breakouts and Matching Ranks
Use for Analysis by Attribute
Use for Analysis by Weight
Use for Analysis for Case Relevance and Outcome
Use a Scenario
Create A Scenario

5. Try It and Send Me Feedback!
Where to Next?
Need to add new cases
Need to verify conflict and environment
Need to refine and add more categories and measures
Need more scenarios to seed new cases
Need user experiences in using cases
ICE-SST Site:
Try It and Send Me Feedback!