Deaths in Wars and Conflicts between 1945 and 2000
Notice of the availability of the Second Edition of the monograph by Milton Leitenberg, Senior Research Scholar, Center for International and Security Studies, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and published by the Peace Studies Program, Center for International Studies, Cornell University.
The Second Print Edition should be available by June 1, 2006.
It will also be available electronically at: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/peaceprogram/publications/occasional_papers/Deaths-Wars-Conflicts3rd-ed.pdf
Members of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, particularly if affiliated with a genocide teaching or research program, who would like a gratis printed copy should send a postal mailing address to <mleitenb@umd.edu>. Printed copies will be distributed as long as they remain available.
The monograph of approximately 75 pages contains:
A data section, tabulating both civilian and combatant deaths due to all causes for 157 events between 1945 and 2000 in 72 countries, grouped in seven geographic regions;
An itemized total sum for deaths in wars and conflicts ‰¥þkilled or allowed to die by human decision‰¥ÿ of approximately 231 million for the 100 years of the 20th Century. The separate components of this sum are provided. The reference to the consequence of political decisions by governments includes massive starvation resulting from government campaigns and not natural causes, major loss of life in internment or work camps systems, and instances of genocide.
The monograph then includes summaries of the events that took place in Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1990. and since 2003 in the Darfur province of Sudan. It analyzes the nature of the response or non-response to these by the international community. These sections demonstrate that by far the greater portion of loss of life in these events could have been prevented by different international policies both prior to and during the crisis phases of these events.
Finally, the monograph concludes with an analysis of the problem of international intervention.
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