| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 310 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in strategic peacebuilding
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Studies in strategic peacebuilding.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| Summary |
'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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Civilian war casualties -- Statistics.
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Civilian war casualties. |
| Genre/Form |
Statistics.
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| Subject |
Civilian war casualties -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Civilians in war -- Case studies.
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Civilians in war. |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Statistics.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Seybolt, Taylor B., editor.
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Aronson, Jay D., 1974- editor.
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Fischhoff, Baruch, 1946- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Counting civilian casualties. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013] 9780199977307 (DLC) 2012042272 (OCoLC)818465947 |
| ISBN |
9780199977321 (electronic book) |
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0199977321 (electronic book) |
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0199346178 (electronic book) |
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9780199346172 (electronic book) |
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9780199977307 |
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0199977305 |
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9780199977314 |
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0199977313 |
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