Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jana Asher -- The statistics of genocide / Mary W. Gray and Sharon Marek -- Why estimate direct and indirect casualties from war? The rule of proportionality and casualty estimates / Beth O. Daponte -- Statistical thinking and data analysis : enhancing human rights work / Jorge L. Romeu -- Hidden in plain sight : X.X. burials and the desaparecidos in the Department of Guatemala, 1977-1986 / Clyde Collins Snow, Fredy Armando Peccerelli, José Samuel Susanávar, Alan G. Robinson, and Jose Maria Najera Ochoa -- The demography of conflict-related mortality in Timor-Leste (1974-1999) : reflections on empirical quantitative measurement of civilian killings, disappearances, and famine-related deaths / Romesh Silva and Patrick Ball -- Afghan refugee camp surveys in Pakistan, 2002 / James Bell, David Nolle, Ruth Citrin and Fritz Scheuren -- Metagora : an experiment in the measurement of democratic governance / Jan Robert Suesser and R. Suarez de Miguel -- Human rights of statisticians and statistics of human rights : early history of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights / Thomas B. Jabine and Douglas A. Samuelson -- Obtaining evidence for the International Criminal Court using data and quantitative analysis / Herbert F. Spirer and William Seltzer -- New issues in human rights statistics / David L. Banks and Yasmin H. Said -- Statistics and the Millennium Development Goals / David J. Fitch, Paul Wassenich, Paul Fields, Fritz Scheuren, and Jana Asher -- Using population data systems to target vulnerable population subgroups and individuals : issues and incidents / William Seltzer and Margo Anderson.