Course: Accounting for Death in War: Separating Fact from Fiction

In this clip I interview Tanisha Fazal who is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. I built this short course around war deaths. But injuries …

Tanisha had a remarkable opportunity to observe a US war gaming exercise aimed at illuminating likely casualty patterns for US military personnel in the event of war on the Korean …

In this clip I interview Bethany Lacina who is the James P. Wilmot assistant professor of political science at the University of Rochester. We talk about the PRIO Battle Death …

In this clip I interview Lotta Themnér and Therése Pettersson, both of the department of peace and conflict research of Uppsala University. We talked about the Georeferenced Event Dataset (GED) …

Here we enjoy our last few moments with Nicholas Jewell. Most of the conversation is about one specific point: the leveraging effect of errors in determining overlaps between lists of …

In this clip I interview Kristian Lum, lead statistician at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. I underline here what I view as Kristian’s main point in this interview. She …

In this clip I interview Nicholas Jewell, long of the University of California Berkeley and now at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. A notable feature of this …

We have just expended a fair amount of energy learning about the quantification of uncertainty surrounding sample survey-based estimates of violent war deaths. So perhaps some of us are not …

In this video I interview Chris Woods of Airwars, a project, which monitors civilian harm from international military actions in theatres such as Iraq, Syria and Libya. A conflict specialist, …

In this video I interview Iain Overton of Action on Armed Violence (AOAV). Full disclosure – I am on the Board for Action on Armed Violence. Casualty recording often feeds …

In this video I interview Elizabeth Minor of Article 36 about her Work on Casualty Recording. Elizabeth asked me to post the following clarifying statement about her interview. “In this …

In this video, I interview John Sloboda who is Co-Director of Every Casualty Worldwide with Hamit Dardagan, with whom he also co-founded Iraq Body Count in 2002. Full disclosure – …

In this video, I interview Hamit Dardagan, Co-founder of Iraq Body Count (IBC), a project which has been documenting violent deaths of civilians in the Iraq war which began in …