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

“这项奖励是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。”记录伤亡对任何正常运转的社会都是必不可少的。创造这样的记录是为了纪念那些遭受苦难的人。它为理解造成伤亡的过程、为幸存者提供便利的服务奠定了基础。恢复，以及增加犯罪者为其罪行付出代价的机会。武装冲突以及随之而来的社会机构的崩溃，使建立可靠的个人伤亡记录的挑战大大复杂化。在没有这些资料的情况下，就必须使用推断方法来估计总的死亡人数。那些从事记录和评估工作的人不仅面临困难的技术问题，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计的利害关系，有必要按照尽可能高的科学标准进行这项工作。为此，卡耐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。它将汇集顶尖的研究人员，以确定科学的现状，包括其不确定性和争议。由此产生的论文和诉讼将以从业人员（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）可以使用的形式出版。它还将为新兴的人权科学领域作出贡献，致力于为这些需要智力的问题提供合理的解决办法。

"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.