Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Accounting for Death in War: Separating Fact from Fiction
Royal Holloway, University of London
This online course covered and supported learners in the application of the following war death accounting methods: 1. Casualty recording, i.e., case-by-case documentation of people killed and/or the events in which they are killed. 2. Statistical estimation of numbers of violent war deaths and their patterns, including over time, space, weapons types and victim characteristics. 3. Statistical estimation of non-violent war death, indirectly connected to war.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Michael Spagat
Professor of Economics
Royal Holloway, University of London
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the main methods used to account for war deaths
- Describe the state of war-death knowledge for several modern wars, including some that have been misrepresented by faulty statistics
- Evaluate the quality of war-death numbers and debate their strengths and weaknesses
- Calculate war-death estimates from some basic pieces of information
Syllabus
- Memorializing 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
Issued on 27th January 2019
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