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Conclusion: The Demographics of War and Development: Issues for Policy-Makers

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As we have seen throughout this book, the body count of the victims of violence is not only an issue for development and population studies, but also for peace-making and the understanding of armed conflicts. For aid workers, it helps to inform and implement effective relief delivery; for governments and international agencies, to plan reconstruction and facilitate reconciliation; for legal practitioners, to prosecute war criminals and prove the systematic pattern of massacres; for humanitarian organisations, to assess basic needs and estimate performances.

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    To learn more about these organisations, see: http://www.everycasualty.org/practice/ipn/members

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    The militants of movements like Hamas or Hezbollah, for instance, are more educated than the average in Palestine or Lebanon. See Krueger and Jitka (2003).

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    Rummel (1994). See also Marshall and Gurr (2005).

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    Marshall and Cole (2011), p. 44. On the home front, for instance, official ethnic political discrimination has decreased everywhere since the 1950s, and it helped to reduce tensions. See Asal and Pate (2005).

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    Meanwhile, the authoritarian communist block experienced interstate wars between Somalia- -> and Ethiopia in 1977 and the Soviet Union and Hungary in 1956.

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de Montclos, MA.P. (2016). Conclusion: The Demographics of War and Development: Issues for Policy-Makers. In: Pérouse de Montclos, MA., Minor, E., Sinha, S. (eds) Violence, Statistics, and the Politics of Accounting for the Dead. Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12036-2_8

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