Scientific Conference on Casualty Recording and Estimation on May 28-30, 2009 at the Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA.

“该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111 - 5）资助的。"记录伤亡人数对任何正常运作的社会都至关重要。创造这样的记录是为了纪念那些受苦受难的人。它提供了一个基础，了解造成伤亡的过程，提供服务，方便幸存者？恢复，并增加犯罪者为他们的罪行付出代价的机会。武装冲突以及随之而来的社会机构崩溃，使建立可信的个人伤亡记录的挑战变得更加复杂。在没有这些数据的情况下，必须使用推断方法来估计总的死亡人数。 从事记录和估算工作的人不仅面临技术难题，而且经常在危险的条件下工作，受到那些受其结论影响的人的压力，考虑到这些记录和估算的利害关系，必须尽可能以最高的科学标准进行这项工作。为此，卡内基梅隆大学和匹兹堡大学将召开一次关于伤亡记录和估计的跨学科国际会议。它将汇集领先的研究人员，以确定科学的状态，包括其不确定性和争议。由此产生的文件和会议记录将以从业人员，包括人权倡导者、人道主义援助工作者和过渡时期司法专家可以查阅的形式出版。它还将促进新兴的人权科学领域，致力于为这些需要智力的问题提供合理的解决方案。

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)."Recording casualties is essential to any functioning society. Creating such records honors those who have suffered. It provides a foundation for understanding the processes that caused the casualties, for providing services that facilitate survivors? recovery, and for increasing the chances that perpetrators pay for their crimes. Armed conflicts, and the attendant breakdown of social institutions, greatly complicate the challenges of creating trustworthy records of individual casualties. In their absence, inferential methods must be used to generate estimates of the overall toll. Those who do the work of recording and estimation not only face difficult technical problems, but often operate in perilous conditions, pressured by those affected by their conclusions.Given the stakes riding on these records and estimates, it is essential that the work be performed to the highest possible scientific standard. To this end, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh will convene an interdisciplinary and international Conference on Casualty Recording and Estimation. It will bring together leading researchers in order to identify the state of the science, including its uncertainties and controversies. The resulting papers and proceedings will be published in a form accessible to practitioners, including human rights advocates, humanitarian aid workers, and transitional justice specialists. It will also contribute to the emerging field of human rights science, dedicated to producing sound solutions to these intellectually demanding problems.