Accounting for Death in War
Separating Fact from Fiction
This course is for anyone interested in war, history and politics and/or the use and abuse of numbers and statistics. You don’t need an advanced knowledge of mathematics. You can use the hashtag #FLaccdeathwar to talk about this course on social media.
Topics Covered- Memorializing people who people who have died in wars, both combatants and civilians
- The idea of casualty recording; listing war dead name-by-name or event-by-event with details about each case
- Using statistical methods to estimate the total number of war deaths and breakdowns by categories
- Estimating the number of non-violent deaths caused indirectly by war
- Applications to air strikes and explosive violence worldwide and to wars in Kosovo, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo and beyond
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| Length | 3 weeks |
| Effort | 3 hours per week |
| Starts | Jan 11 (277 weeks ago) |
| Cost | $59 |
| From | Royal Holloway, University of London via FutureLearn |
| Instructors | Michael Spagat, Nathan Woolley, Luqman Saeed |
| Download Videos | Only via web browser |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Humanities Social Sciences |
| Tags | Politics & the Modern World |
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| Rating | Not enough ratings |
|---|---|
| Length | 3 weeks |
| Effort | 3 hours per week |
| Starts | Jan 11 (277 weeks ago) |
| Cost | $59 |
| From | Royal Holloway, University of London via FutureLearn |
| Instructors | Michael Spagat, Nathan Woolley, Luqman Saeed |
| Download Videos | Only via web browser |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Humanities Social Sciences |
| Tags | Politics & the Modern World |
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