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

Title
Counting civilian casualties [electronic resource] : 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]

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Additional Authors
  • Seybolt, Taylor B.
  • Aronson, Jay D., 1974-
  • Fischhoff, Baruch, 1946-
Description
1 online resource (xix, 310 pages) : illustrations.
Series Statement
Studies in strategic peacebuilding
Uniform Title
Counting civilian casualties (Online)
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
LCCN
2012042272
OCLC
ssj0000887197
Title
Counting civilian casualties [electronic resource] : an introduction to recording and estimating nonmilitary deaths in conflict / edited by Taylor B. Seybolt, Jay D. Aronson, and Baruch Fischhoff.
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Series
Studies in strategic peacebuilding
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Seybolt, Taylor B.
Aronson, Jay D., 1974-
Fischhoff, Baruch, 1946-
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