Counting Civilian Casualties: An Introduction to Recording and Estimating Nonmilitary Deaths in Conflict
- ISBN-10
- 0199977305
- ISBN-13
- 9780199977307
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-11
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Baruch Fischhoff, Jay D. Aronson, Taylor B. Seybolt
Description
Counting Civilian Casualties aims to promote open scientific dialogue by high lighting the strengths and weaknesses of the most commonly used casualty recording and estimation techniques in an understandable format.
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