January 25

Shrinking Costs Of War

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This site provides free access to a chapter from the 2009 Human Security report published by the Human Security Report Project at the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University. This 72 page section discusses recent declines in mortality worldwide. It reveals that nationwide death rates actually fall during the course of most of today's armed conflicts.It provides statistics on the number of deaths from wars, a section on war death rates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and armed conflict and health policy. http://www.humansecurityreport.info/2009Report/2009Report_Complete.pdf

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August 03

Battle Deaths Dataset Version 2.0.[1946-2005] Centre For The Study Of Civil War. International Peace Research Institute, Oslo

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The Battle Deaths Dataset 2.0 was compiled by the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) at International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). It updates an earlier version of the database, details of which are provided on the website. It is possible to download the statistical figures, along with associated codebooks, explanations and documentation. The datasets provides statistics on battle field deaths from 1946-2005. This includes deaths amongst civilians and soldiers. It is possible to identify data by year or geographical region. Details of methodology and copyright is supplied on the website. From Intute.ac.uk   http://www.prio.no/CSCW/Datasets/Armed-Conflict/Battle-Deaths/The-Battle-Deaths-

March 04

Recording Casualties In Armed Conflict Project

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Recording casualties in armed conflict project
The Recording Casualties in Armed Conflict project is a special intiative of the Oxford Research Group. It aims to build a database of statistics on war casualties worldwide. The site includes papers and reports on the technical capacity to achieve this and ots progress. It includes links to major projects and datasets where human losses, war casualties data, facts and figures can be located. These include materials relating to casualties of the Gulf war and Iraq crisis. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/work/global_security/casualties.php