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Accounting for Death in War

Separating Fact from Fiction

Michael Spagat, Nathan Woolley, and Luqman Saeed

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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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Royal Holloway, University of London

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Michael Spagat

Nathan Woolley

Luqman Saeed

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