An argument for documenting casualties
Subtitle: violence against Iraqi civilians 2006
By: Katharine Hall, Dale Stahl.
Contributors: Stahl, Dale.
Publisher: RAND
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
ISBN-13: 9780833044617
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003- -- Casualties; Civilian war casualties -- Iraq -- Statistics; Violent deaths -- Iraq -- Statistics; Counterinsurgency -- Statistics
Genres: Statistics.
Description: This study examines available open-source data on Iraqi civilian fatalities and assesses problems associated with previous collection efforts. The authors present a new and more robust RAND Corporation Iraqi civilian violence dataset from which they derive observations about trends in targeting and weapons in 2006. These findings lead to a proposed framework for future civilian fatality data-collection efforts in Iraq and beyond.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Figures; title: Tables; title: Summary; title: Acknowledgments; title: Glossary, list of symbols, etc.; title: Introduction; title: Counting Iraqi civilian deaths; title: The Lancet studies; title: United Nations reports; title: Iraq body count; title: Iraqi government statistics; title: Conclusions; title: Detailed analysis of RAND's civilian violence dataset; title: The RAND dataset; title: A closer look at 2006 : who is being attacked, where and how; title: Conclusion; title: Recent developments : COIN and the military's collection effort; title: COIN and Iraq : doctrine versus reality; title: The reduction of violence in 2007 : Petraeus and the surge; title: Conclusion; title: Conclusion and recommendations : a better collection framework.