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

1. General Introduction: Armed Conflicts and the Body Count: An Issue for Population Studies and Development
Marc-Antoine Pérouse Montclos

Part I. Methodologies, Development Issues and Politics

2. Development Consequences of Armed Conflict
Scott Gates, Håvard Hegre, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Håvard Strand

3. Numbers Count: Dead Bodies, Statistics, and the Politics of Armed Conflicts
Marc-Antoine Pérouse Montclos

4. The International Committee of the Red Cross: Identifying the Dead and Tracing Missing Persons – A Historical Perspective
Isabelle Vonèche Cardia

Part II. Annexes: Case Studies of the Experiences of Practitioners

5. Recording Casualties of Explosive Violence: Evidence-Based Advocacy in Practice
Henry Dodd, Robert Perkins

6. Measuring the Burden of Conflict Through Local Newspapers: Findings from the Manipur Micro-level Insurgency Events Database of 2008–2009
Samrat Sinha

7. Documenting Human Losses in Croatia 1991–1995
Igor Roginek

8. Conclusion: The Demographics of War and Development: Issues for Policy-Makers
Marc-Antoine Pérouse Montclos

Keywords: Social Sciences, Demography, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law, Human Rights, Political Science, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict