Violence, Statistics, and the Politics of Accounting for the Dead

“The book is a vital contribution for anyone involved beyond the numbers in this particularly difficult kind of excess mortality. … The book performs a notable service in documenting methodologies to measure and evaluate this special kind of excess mortality within the realm of population studies. … This book cannot be ignored by those engaged directly in this work and by those dealing with its consequences.” (Johanne Sanschagrin, Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 44 (1-2), 2017)

• Chapter 1: General Introduction: Armed Conflicts and the Body Count: an Issue for Population Studies and Development: Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos.- Part I: Methodologies, Development Issues and Politics: Chapter 2: Development Consequences of Armed Conflict: Scott Gates. Havard Hegre, Havard Mokleiv Nygard and Havard Strand.- Chapter 3: Numbers Count: Dead Bodies, Statistics and the Politics of Armed Conflicts: Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos.- Chapter 4: Accounting for Civilian Casualties: From the Past to the Future: Nicholas Jewell, Michael Spagat and Britta Jewell.- Chapter 5: The ICRC, Confidentiality, Neutrality and Missing Persons, from a historical perspective: Isabelle Vonèche-Cardia.- Part II: Annexes: Case Studies of the Experience of Practitioners: Chapter 6: Recording Casualties of Explosive Violence: Evidence-based Advocacy in Practice: Henry Dodd and Robert Perkins.- Chapter 7: Measuring the Burden of Conflict through Local Newspapers: Findings from the ManipurMicro-level Insurgency Events Database of 2008-2009: Samrat Sinha.- Chapter 8: Documenting Human Losses in Croatia 1991 – 1995: Igor Roginek.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Demographics of War and Development: Issues for Policy-makers: Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos.- Index.