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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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