Session 102:
A decline of violence? Measurement and empirical issues
Chair: Tim Dyson, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Discussant: Andrew Mack, SFU
Assessing trends in battle deaths over time: an update to 2007 • Bethany A Lacina, Stanford University ; Nils Petter Gleditsch, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
Estimating war deaths with population-based survey data • Ziad Obermeyer, University of Washington ; Chang Park, University of Washington ; Emmanuela Gakidou, University of Washington
Confidence intervals in small cluster surveys of conflict mortality: how sure are we really? • Michael Spagat, University of London ; Gabriela Guerrero-Serdan, University of London
Better the devil you know: the advantages (and problems) of using media sources for the study of war fatalities • Joakim Kreutz, Uppsala University
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