WORKSHOP: New Horizons in Conflict System Analysis: Applications to the Middle East, Fall, 2010.

不用说，中东冲突体系是世界上最重要和最棘手的问题领域之一，其后果涟漪全球体系。 当政治学学者一直在倡导多方法的研究方法，强烈植根于理论的时候，这个研讨会汇集了各种政治学和社会科学的方法来研究社会冲突和政治冲突，以审查正在进行的中东冲突系统。研讨会融合了学术方法，方法和研究结果与政策导向的需求。它汇集了主要来自政治学的冲突学者，应用一系列先进、严格的分析和数据收集技术，来解决当代中东冲突体系的单一经验领域。 这一多学科讲习班表明了正式方法和各种经验方法之间的互补性，并指出学术研究与政策问题的相关性，关于更广泛的影响，讲习班的结果将对处理冲突局势的决策者有意义。 此外，还邀请了一些研究生参加讲习班。他们将有机会与其他参与者互动，并观察多学科和多方法方法的发展和使用。 希望这些经验将影响他们以后的工作。

It goes without saying that the Middle East conflict system is one of the world's most important and intractable problem areas, with consequences that ripple across the global system. At a time when academics in political science have been advocating multi-method research approaches that are strongly rooted in theory, this workshop brings together a variety of political science and social science approaches to social conflict and political conflict to examine the ongoing conflict system of the Middle East.The workshop melds together academic approaches, methods and findings with policy oriented needs. It brings together conflict scholars, primarily from political science, applying a range of advanced, rigorous analytic and data gathering techniques, to address the single empirical domain of the contemporary Middle East conflict system. This multidisciplinary workshop demonstrates the complementarity between formal approaches and various empirical mtehods, and also notes the relevance of scholarly research to policy questions.With regards to broader impacts, the results of the workshop will be of interest to policy makers dealing with conflict situations. In addition, a number of graduate students are invited to the workshop. They will have an opportunity to interact with the other participants as well as observe the development and use of multidisciplinary and multi-method approaches. It is hoped that these experiences will influence their later work.