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

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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