Documenting Mortality in Conflicts

Session 1
What are the objectives of estimating mortality in conflicts? Advocacy, judiciary and programmatic perspectives.

We will invite professionals from different disciplines to discuss the objectives for collecting mortality data in their respective fields of study. We will focus on 3 types of uses of mortality data: programmatic purposes, advocacy purposes and judicial purposes.

- Panel: P. Salignon, H. Brunborg, L. Roberts

Session 2
Working with communities: approaches to collecting data in the field.

This session will cover the methods used by the different participants to collect information on mortality. Issues that will be discussed will include survey techniques, prospective surveillance, witness accounts, forensic anthropology investigations, and databases of media reports.

- Panel: O. Degomme, J. Nielsen, T. Simmons, J. Pfundheller

Session 3
Using complementary methods: triangulation, meta analyses and cross-disciplinary approaches.

The use of complementary and cross-disciplinary approaches, such as meta-analyses and triangulation, will be presented and discussed.

- Panel 1: O. Degomme, Z. Obermeyer, R. Silva

Coffee Break

- Panel 2: H. Dardagan, G. Bedoya-Jimenez, P. Clarke, F. Peccerelli

Dinner

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Session 4
Pitfalls, challenges and limitations to documenting conflict mortality.

This session will address limitations and obstacles to data collection using particular techniques in specific situations. Panel 1 will discuss statistical problems and other methodological issues intrinsic to particular methods, while panel 2 will address cultural restrictions and security issues that might compromise data quality during conflict situations.

- Panel 1: B. Osborne Daponte, B. Lacina, J. Nielsen, M. Spagat

Coffee Break

- Panel 2: S. Colombo, F. Peccerelli, M. Phelan

Session 5
Panel debate and discussion: Building bridges between disciplines.

This session will offer participants who have previously worked with data and techniques specific to research fields other than their own will discuss how bridges can be built between different disciplines.

- Panel: L. Roberts, A. de Waal, D Guha-Sapir