Alcabes

Andreas

Ball

Barry

Bell

Betts

Bodart

Britta L. Jewell

Busey

Cameron

Cummings

DaPonte

Dockrill

Dumas

Faust

Gray

Greenhill

Greenhough

Hayner

Heinzelman

Hersch

Hobhouse

Hochschild

Hoover Green

Klingberg

Kreutz

Landman

Laveran

Leroy-Beaulieu

Lewy

Lucas

McPherson

Michael Spagat

Nahm

Nicholas P. Jewell

Orend

Parker

Petrovich

Pinker

Rockel

Rummel

Sandberg

Slim

Spagat

Stevenson

Thayer

Twain

Walzer

Jewell, Nicholas

Spagat, Michael

Jewell, Britta

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Accounting for Civilian Casualties:From the Past to the Future

Assessment of the extent of civilian casualties during times of conflict presents significant challenges in data collection, quantitative methods, interpretation, and presentation. In this article, we briefly consider the motivation and use of casualty accounting and review historical approaches to these questions with illustrative comments on the US Civil War, World War I, World War II, and other conflicts. We provide an overview of several accounting methodologies including excess mortality, epidemiologic surveys, direct and indirect counts, multiple list estimation, and crowdsourcing. We reflect on the evolution toward modern approaches to casualty assessments, permitted by both a deeper understanding of human rights and by contemporaneous technological advances in data collection techniques. Our goal is to introduce several areas of research that deserve attention from social science historians and statisticians.</jats:p

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Accounting for Civilian Casualties: From the Past to the Future

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Accounting for Civilian Casualties:From the Past to the Future

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