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Counting civilian casualties : an introduction to recording and estimating nonmilitary deaths in conflict /

'Counting Civilian Casualties' aims to promote open scientific dialogue by high lighting the strengths and weaknesses of the most commonly used casualty recording and estimation techniques in an understandable format.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Seybolt, Taylor B. (Editor), Aronson, Jay D., 1974- (Editor), Fischhoff, Baruch, 1946- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Series:Studies in strategic peacebuilding.
Subjects:
Civilian war casualties > Statistics.
Civilian war casualties > Case studies.
Civilians in war > Case studies.
Guerre civile > Pertes > Statistiques.
Guerre civile > Pertes > Études de cas.
Guerre > Participation des civils > Études de cas.
HISTORY > Military > Strategy.
Civilian war casualties
Civilians in war
Electronic books.
Case studies
Statistics
Case studies.
Statistics.
Études de cas.
Statistiques.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Who counts?
  • Introduction / Taylor B. Seybolt, Jay D. Aronson, and Baruch Fischhoff
  • Significant numbers: civilian casualties and strategic peacebuilding / Taylor B. Seybolt
  • The politics of civilian casualty counts / Jay D. Aronson
  • Recording violence: incident-based data
  • Iraq body count: a case study in the uses of incident-based conflict casualty data aggregate conflict casualty data / John Sloboda, Hamit Dardagan, Michael Spagat, and Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks
  • A matter of convenience: challenges of non-random data in analyzing
  • Human rights violations in Peru and Sierra Leone / Todd Landman and Anita Gohdes
  • Estimating violence: surveys
  • Using surveys to estimate casualties post-conflict: developments for the developing world / Jana Asher
  • Collecting data on violence: scientific challenges and ethnographic solutions / Meghan Foster Lynch
  • Estimating violence: multiple-systems estimation
  • Combining found data and surveys to measure conflict mortality / Jeff Klingner and Romesh Silva
  • Multiple-systems estimation techniques for estimating casualties in armed conflicts / Daniel Manrique-Vallier, Megan E. Price, and Anita Gohdes
  • Mixed methods
  • MSE and casualty counts: assumptions, interpretation, and challenges / Nicholas P. Jewell, Michael Spagat, and Britta L. Jewell
  • A review of estimation methods for victims of the Bosnian war and the Khmer Rouge regime / Ewa Tabeau and Jan Zwierzchowski
  • The complexity of casualty numbers
  • It doesn't add up: methodological and policy implications of conflicting casualty data / Jule Krüger, Patrick Ball, Megan Price, and Amelia Hoover Green
  • Challenges to counting and classifying victims of violence in conflict
  • Post-conflict, and non-conflict settings / Keith Krause
  • Conclusion
  • Moving toward more accurate casualty counts / Jay D. Aronson, Baruch Fischhoff, and Taylor B. Seybolt.