In early 2006 IBC was invited to introduce its work at a Working Group Meeting on methods used by researchers to estimate armed conflict deaths (organised by the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, 17 Feb 2006).
Well-received by experts at the meeting, On Iraq Body Count summarised the project’s key features and innovations.
(Map of Iraq showing numbers of civilian dead recorded by IBC for 12 cities.)
3.0 Analytic potentials of the data
Our most significant analytic publication is the July 2005 "Dossier of Civilian Casualties in Iraq 2003-2005"* which performs a number of integrative statistical analyses on all the data extracted from the first two years of the conflict. No full understanding of our work or its potentials is possible without a detailed examination of this document.
Two examples are provided next to illustrate some of the potentials of our data, which provide analytic possibilities going way beyond estimates of total deaths, to look at detailed relationships between key variables. We believe that some of our analyses are unique in the research literature on war and its effects.