The Demography of Armed Conflict

War and conflict, whether internal or international, remains a pervasive phenomenon affecting most regions of the world and particularly low-income countries. Demographic consequences of war and violence, especially deaths and forced migration, are amongst the gravest costs of war and receive much attention in mass media, although it is often difficult to quantify such effects. Furthermore, demographic factors, such as population pressure on natural renewable resources, migration, differential population dynamics by ethnic or religious group, or the number of young persons in a population, have been suggested as potential causes of conflict. Despite the obvious importance of both demographic causes and consequences of armed conflict, research on the demographic aspects of conflict is scarce.

This book brings together researchers from very different traditions to bridge gaps in the field, and to provide new insights into the demographic causes and consequences of armed conflict. The diversity of the authors, coming from demography, statistics, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, geography, economics and law, gives the reader a cross-cut of recent research in demography and armed conflict. The themes are equally diverse. Studies of demographic causes of conflict address issues of migration, ethnicity, population growth and youth bulges. Studies focusing on the consequences of conflict include some broad assessments of mortality from armed conflict, the estimation of casualties for prosecution of war crimes, as well as detailed case studies of conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Kenya, Mali, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda.

A novel bridging of the gap between research traditions, bringing together articles on the demographic causes as well as consequences of armed conflict A multi-disciplinary approach to the demography of armed conflict Historical and contemporary accounts of demographic causes and consequences of armed conflict The use of demographic research for the prosecution of war crimes

Zusammenfassung

This book assembles researchers in demography, statistics, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, geography, economics and law to offer fresh insight on the demographic causes and consequences of armed conflict. Cause studies consider migration, ethnicity, population growth and youth bulges. Studies on consequences of conflict include mortality from conflict, casualty estimation for prosecution of war crimes, and case studies of conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Kenya, Mali, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda.

Inhalt
DEMOGRAPHIC CAUSES OF CONFLICT.- THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF GENOCIDE: REFUGEES AND TERRITORIAL LOSS IN THE MASS MURDER OF EUROPEAN JEWRY.- RELATIVE RESOURCES: INEQUALITY IN ETHNIC WARS, REVOLUTIONS, AND GENOCIDES.- PEOPLE VS. MALTHUS: POPULATION PRESSURE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, AND ARMED CONFLICT REVISITED.- DEMOGRAPHY, MIGRATION AND CONFLICT IN THE PACIFIC.- CONFLICT AND MORTALITY: THE BROADER PICTURE.- THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF PRE-INDUSTRIAL WARFARE: POLITICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS.- MONITORING TRENDS IN GLOBAL COMBAT: A NEW DATASET OF BATTLE DEATHS.- THE IMMEDIATE AND LINGERING EFFECTS OF ARMED CONFLICT ON ADULT MORTALITY: A TIME-SERIES CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS.- COUNTING VICTIMS FOR THE PROSECUTION OF WAR CRIMES.- INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW AND COMBAT CASUALTIES.- ACCOUNTING FOR GENOCIDE: HOW MANY WERE KILLED IN SREBRENICA?.- WAR-RELATED DEATHS IN THE 19921995 ARMED CONFLICTS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: A CRITIQUE OF PREVIOUS ESTIMATES AND RECENT RESULTS1.- DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF CONFLICT: CASE STUDIES.- CAMBODIA: RECONSTRUCTING THE DEMOGRAPHIC STAB OF THE PAST AND FORECASTING THE DEMOGRAPHIC SCAR OF THE FUTURE.- ANALYSING LOW INTENSITY CONFLICT IN AFRICA USING PRESS REPORTS.- MIGRATORY COPING IN WARTIME MOZAMBIQUE: AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIOLENCE AND DISPLACEMENTIN FRAGMENTED WARS.- POST-CONFLICT DEMOGRAPHIC RESPONSES: CASE STUDIES.- FORCED MIGRATION AND UNDER-FIVE MORTALITY: A COMPARISON OF REFUGEES AND HOSTS IN NORTH-WESTERN UGANDA AND SOUTHERN SUDAN.- CHILD SURVIVAL AND FERTILITY OF REFUGEES IN RWANDA.- THE DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF CONFLICT, EXILE AND REPATRIATION: A CASE STUDY OF MALIAN TUAREG.