Research Catalog

Title

Counting civilian casualties : an introduction to recording and estimating nonmilitary deaths in conflict / edited by Taylor B. Seybolt, Jay D. Aronson, and Baruch Fischhoff.

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Seybolt, Taylor B.
• Aronson, Jay D., 1974-
• Fischhoff, Baruch, 1946-

Description

xix, 310 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Studies in strategic peacebuilding

Uniform Title

Studies in strategic peacebuilding.

Subjects

• Civilian war casualties > Statistics
• Civilian war casualties > Case studies
• Civilians in war > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 13-6275

ISBN

• 9780199977307
• 0199977305
• 9780199977314
• 0199977313

LCCN

• 2012042272
• 40022471617

OCLC

818465947

Title

Counting civilian casualties : an introduction to recording and estimating nonmilitary deaths in conflict / edited by Taylor B. Seybolt, Jay D. Aronson, and Baruch Fischhoff.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in strategic peacebuilding

Studies in strategic peacebuilding.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Seybolt, Taylor B., editor.

Aronson, Jay D., 1974- editor.

Fischhoff, Baruch, 1946- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40022471617

Research Call Number

JFE 13-6275