%0 Book Section %9 OS CH : Chapitres d'ouvrages scientifiques %A Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine %T The demographics of war and development : issues for policy-makers : conclusion %B Violence, statistics, and the politics of accounting for the dead %C Cham %D 2016 %E Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine %E Minor, E. %E Sinha, S. %L fdi:010067137 %G ENG %I Springer %@ 978-3-319-12035-5 %N 4 %P 131-140 %R 10.1007/978-3-319-12036-2_8 %U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010067137 %> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2023-02/010067137.pdf %W Horizon (IRD) %X 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. [...] %S Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development %$ 114 ; 108 ; 020