Digital echoes: Understanding patterns of mass violence with data and statistics
Exploring the validity of extrapolations from raw data on violence.
This talk is part of the London Population Seminar series jointly organized by LSHTM, LSE and UCL.
Using analysis of killings in Iraq 2005-2010, homicides committed by police in the US 2005-2011, and analysis of genocide in Guatemala in 1982-1983, this talk will discuss the use of capture-recapture methods to estimate of total patterns of violence, where the estimates correct for heterogeneous underreporting.
The examples will be grounded in their use in public debates and in expert testimony in criminal trials for genocide and war crimes. The talk will conclude with an introduction to the methods and analysis used by the transitional justice mechanisms in Colombia.
Speaker
Dr. Patrick Ball, Director of Research, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
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At LSHTM, this seminar will be hosted by:
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- Please note that you can join this event in person or you can join the session remotely
- External visitors wishing to attend in person are expected to report to the LSHTM Keppel Street building reception desk by 12.30PM
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