This section features articles which look at the wider, and deeper, human and social aspects of war and its measurable consequences - but while keeping its devastating impact on the human body and spirit firmly in focus.
Analysis: Beyond Statistics
- Contains Flashing Images
- by Lily Hamourtziadou 19 Mar 2013
- The unexamined Iraqi dimension of UK involvement in Iraq
- In the regions where UK forces provided security from May 2003 to December 2007, IBC documented 3,334 violent civilian deaths. 22 May 2011
- Iraq War Logs: The Truth is In the Detail
- An analysis of the type of victim and incident details found in the logs, and why those details matter. 23 Oct 2010
- The Uninquiring Iraq Inquiry
- An ‘Iraq War Inquest’ may be needed to focus attention where it belongs 26 Aug 2010
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Exaggerated claims, substandard research, and
a disservice to truth - ORB's "million Iraqi deaths" survey seriously flawed, new study shows 5 May 2010
- Radio Free Iraq interview with IBC
- 24 Apr 2009
- Putting the Data to Work
- Details in the IBC database and the analyses they enable 2 Feb 2009
- The Week in Iraq
- Healing the wounds of the past 18 Jan 2009
- Enforced security: solution or stopgap?
- Monthly death toll rising again 28 Feb 2008
- The Price of Loss
- How the West values civilian lives in Iraq. 12 Nov 2007
- The state of knowledge on civilian casualties in Iraq:
- Counts, estimates and government responsibility. Presentation to panel discussion held in January 2007 at USIP, Washington D.C. 3 Sep 2007
- Reality checks: some responses to the latest Lancet estimates
- Press release 16 Oct 2006
- Blithe ignorance
- Tony Blair is in a state of wilful denial about Iraq (external link) 10 Jul 2006
- Speculation is no Substitute
- A defence of Iraq Body Count. (PDF - HTML returning soon) Apr 2006
- A Dossier on Civilian Casualties in Iraq 2003-2005
- The first detailed account of all non-combatants reported killed or wounded during the first two years of the continuing conflict. Published by Iraq Body Count in association with Oxford Research Group, the report is based on comprehensive analysis of over 10,000 media reports published between March 2003 and March 2005. 19 Jul 2005
- Falluja Siege, April 2004: A News Analysis
- Excerpts from nearly three hundred news stories on the April 2004 siege of Falluja, with an emphasis on its humanitarian impact. 26 Oct 2004
- Civilian deaths in “noble” Iraq mission pass 10,000
- We need a tribunal to administer justice for the victims. 7 Feb 2004
- Adding indifference to injury
- At least 20,000 civilians were injured in the Iraq war: why are the occupiers ignoring their suffering and their needs? Aug 2003
- Counting the human cost
- A survey of projects counting civilians killed by the war in Iraq 12 Jun 2003
- 100 Names of Civilians Killed
- – and only 2% of a vital task completed. 27 May 2003