Preface and Acknowledgments Contributors Glossary
Part I Who Counts?
1 Introduction, Taylor B. Seybolt, Jay D. Aronson, and Baruch
Fischhoff
2 Significant Numbers: Civilian Casualties and Strategic
Peacebuilding Taylor B. Seybolt
3 The Politics of Civilian Casualty Counts Jay D. Aronson
Part II Recording Violence: Incident-Based Data
4 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
5 A Matter of Convenience: Challenges of Non-Random Data in
Analyzing Human Rights Violations in Peru and Sierra Leone Todd
Landman and Anita Gohdes
Part III Estimating Violence: Surveys
6 Using Surveys to Estimate Casualties Post-Conflict: Developments
for the Developing World Jana Asher
7 Collecting Data on Violence: Scientific Challenges and
Ethnographic Solutions Meghan Foster Lynch
Part IV Estimating Violence: Multiple-Systems Estimation
8 Combining Found Data and Surveys to Measure Conflict Mortality
Jeff Klingner and Romesh Silva
9 Multiple-Systems Estimation Techniques for Estimating Casualties
in Armed Conflicts Daniel Manrique-Vallier, Megan E. Price, and
Anita Gohdes
Part V Mixed Methods
10 MSE and Casualty Counts: Assumptions, Interpretation, and
Challenges Nicholas P. Jewell, Michael Spagat, and Britta L.
Jewell
11 A Review of Estimation Methods for Victims of the Bosnian War
and the Khmer Rouge Regime Ewa Tabeau and Jan Zwierzchowski
Part VI The Complexity of Casualty Numbers
12 It Doesn't Add Up: Methodological and Policy Implications of
Conflicting Casualty Data Jule Krüger, Patrick Ball, Megan Price,
and Amelia Hoover Green
13 Challenges to Counting and Classifying Victims of Violence in
Conflict, Post-Conflict, and Non-Conflict Settings Keith Krause
Part VII Conclusion
14 Moving toward More Accurate Casualty Counts
Jay D. Aronson, Baruch Fischhoff, and Taylor B. Seybolt
Index
TS: Assistant Professor of International and Human Security in the
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the
University of Pittsburgh and author of Humanitarian Military
Intervention: the Conditions for Success and Failure (Oxford,
2007)JA: Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at
Carnegie Mellon UniversityBF: Howard Heinz University Professor of
Social and Decision Sciences and Engineering and Public Policy at
Carnegie Mellon
University
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