Conflict Deaths

Methodologies and Country Case Studies

Small Arms Survey Publications

Wille, Christina and Keith Krause. 2005. Behind the Numbers: Small Arms and Conflict Deaths in Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War.

Muggah, Robert. 2002. Caught in the Crossfire: The Humanitarian Impacts of Small Arms in Small Arms Survey 2002: Counting the Human Cost.

Meijer, Cécelle and Philip Verwimp. 2005. The Use and Perception of Weapons Before and After Conflict: Evidence from Rwanda. Working Paper No.2.

Lafta, Riyadh, Les Roberts, Richard Garfield, and Gilbert Burnham. 2005. The Role of Small Arms during the 2003-2004 Conflict in Iraq. Working Paper No 1.

Griffiths, Martin and Robert Muggah. 2002. Reconsidering the Tools of War: Small Arms and Humanitarian Action. Humanitarian Practice Network, Overseas Development Institute.


Other Articles, Books, and Journals

Human Security Centre. 2006. Human Security Brief 2006. Vancouver, Canada: The University of British Colombia

Eck, Kristine. 2005. A Beginner's Guide to Conflict Data: Finding and Using the Right Dataset. UCDP Papers, No. 1. Uppsala: Uppsala Conflict Data Program. December

Mack, Andrew, et al. 2005. The Human Security Report. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mathers, Colin D., et al. 2005. Counting the Dead and What They Died From: An Assessment of the Global Status of Cause of Death Data. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 83 (3).

Benini, Aldo A. and Lawrence H. Moulton. 2004. Civilian Victims in an Asymmetrical Conflict: Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan. Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 41, No. 4.

Conetta, Carl. 2004. Disappearing the Dead: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Idea of "New Warfare". Cambridge, MA: Commonwealth Institute Project on Defense Alternatives Research. Monograph No. 9.

Hofmann, Charles-Antoine, et al. 2004. Measuring the Impact of Humanitarian Aid: A Review of Current Practice. Humanitarian Policy Group. Research Report 17.

Ghobarah, Hazem Adam, Paul Huth and Bruce Russett. 2003. Civil Wars Kill and Maim People—Long After the Shooting Stops. American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 2, May, 189-202

King, Gary and Will Lowe. 2003. "An Automated Information Extraction Tool for International Conflict Data with Performance as Good as Human Coders: A Rare Events Evaluation Design." International Organization.

Ball, Patrick. 2003. Using Multiple System Estimation to Assess Mass Human Rights Violations: The Cases of Political Killings in Guatemala and Kosovo. Proceedings of the Meetings of the International Statistical Institute, Berlin.

Ball, Patrick, et al. 2003. How Many Peruvians Have Died? An Estimate of the Total Number of Victims Killed or Disappeared in the Armed Internal Conflict Between 1980 and 2000. Washington, D.C.: AAAS.

Conetta, Carl. 2003. The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Commonwealth Institute Project on Defense Alternatives Research. Monograph No. 8.

Conetta, Carl. 2002. Strange Victory: A Critical Appraisal of Operation Enduring Freedom and the Afghanistan War. Cambridge, MA: Commonwealth Institute Project on Defense Alternatives Research. Monograph No. 6.

Conetta, Carl. 2002. Operation Enduring Freedom: Why a Higher Rate of Civilian Bombing Casualties. Cambridge, MA: Commonwealth Institute Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Report No. 11. 18 January, revised 24 January.

Krug, Etienne G., et al. (Eds). 2002. World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva: World Health Organization.

ABA/AAAS (American Bar Association/American Association for the Advancement of Science). 2000. Political Killings in Kosova/Kosovo: March-June 1999. Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI).

Kobrak, Paul and Herbert F. Spirer. 1999. State Violence in Guatemala, 1960-1996: A Quantitative Reflection. Washington, D.C.: AAAS and International Center for Human Rights Research.

Ball, Patrick. 1999. Making the Case: Investigating Large-Scale Human Rights Violations Using Information Systems and Data Analysis. Report for the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification.

PHR (Physicians for Human Rights). 1999. War Crimes in Kosovo: A Population-Based Assessment of Human Rights Violations of Kosovar Albanians by Serb Forces. Cambridge, MA: PHR.

Heidenrich, John G. 1993. "The Gulf War: How Many Iraqis Died?" Foreign Policy.


Databases

Heidelberger Institut für Internationale Konfliktforschung (HIIK). 2005. KOSIMO (Konflikt-Simulations-Modell)
Iraq Body Count (IBC)
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), The Armed Conflict Database
Project Ploughshares, Armed Conflicts Report 2004
Violent, Intrastate Nationalist Conflicts (VINC), Project Home Page
 
 
 

Indirect Conflict Deaths

Small Arms Survey Publications

Wille, Christina and Keith Krause. 2005. Behind the Numbers: Small Arms and Conflict Deaths in Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War.


Other Articles, Books, and Journals

Depoortere, Evelyn, et al. 2004. Violence and Mortality in West Darfur, Sudan: Epidemiological Evidence from Four Surveys. The Lancet. Vol. 364. MSF Report.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). 2004. Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Results from a Nationwide Survey.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). 2004. Mortality in the Pool Region: Results of a Mortality, Immunization, and Nutrition Survey in Kinkala-Boko Health District, Pool Region, Republic of Congo.

Reeves, Eric. 2004. Darfur Mortality Update: Current Data for Total Mortality from Violence, Malnutrition, and Disease. The Hague: Genocide Watch.

Ghobarah, Hazem Adam, Paul Huth and Bruce Russett. 2003. Civil Wars Kill and Maim People—Long After the Shooting Stops. American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 2, May, 189-202

Roberts, Les, et al. 2004. Mortality Before and After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq: Cluster Sample Survey. The Lancet. Vol. 364.

WHO/EPIET (World Health Organization/European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training). 2004. Retrospective Mortality Survey Among the Internally Displaced Population, Greater Darfur, Sudan.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). 2003. Disability Prevalence Survey. Bujumbura Rural Province, Burundi.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). 2003. Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Results from a Nationwide Survey.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). 2002. Disability Prevalence Survey. Bujumbura Rural Province, Burundi.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). 2002. Disability Prevalence Survey. Muyinga Province, Burundi.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). 2002. Disability Prevalence Survey. Makamba Province, Burundi.

Murray, C. J. L., et al. 2002. Armed Conflict as a Public Health Problem. British Medical Journal. Vol. 324.

Garfield, Richard M. and Alfred I. Neugut. 2000. The Human Consequences of War. In Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel (Eds). War and Public Health. Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association.

Ghobarah, Hazem, Paul Huth, and Bruce Russett. 2001. Civil Wars Kill and Maim People - Long After the Shooting Stops. Yale University, Leitner Program in International & Comparative Political Economy. Leitner Working Paper 2001-09.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). 2001. Mortality in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: Results from Eleven Mortality Surveys.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). 2001. Mortality in Kenema District, Sierra Leone: A Survey Covering January 2000 to January 2001.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). 2000. Mortality in Eastern DRC: Results from Five Mortality Surveys.

Spiegel, Paul B. and Peter Salama. 2000. War and Mortality in Kosovo, 1998-1999: An Epidemiological Testimony. The Lancet. Vol. 355.