Further Reading
This section provides links to several useful sites and reports that provide additional dimensions of the human cost of the Iraq war. Included here are other accounts of mortality, reports about violence, displacement, and other effects of war, opinion polls, and other resources.
Recent discussion
Cost of War project from the "Eisenhower Poject" (June 2011)
Little Respite for Iraq's Children in 2007, UNICEF December 2007 (pdf)
Michael Massing on the human cost, N.Y. Review of Books, Dec 20 '07 and Jan 17 '08
Boston Globe op-ed: The Murky Toll of the Iraq War (January 19, 2008)
Returning Iraqis face lack of services, property disputes, McClatchy Newspapers, January 2008
Real News video, "One million killed in Iraq?" at You Tube (February 2008)
Wayne White, "Iraq: The Bottom Line on Falling Casualties." November 7, 2007.
Corrections to recent criticism of Lancet-published surveys, from Burnham and Roberts: letter and fact sheet, Jan. '08 . Media analysis from London-based Media Lens. And an overview from The Chronicle of Higher Education
General conditions
Iraq Family Health Survey, 2006-07, Iraq Ministry of Health
U.N. mission in Iraq : and other data and analysis
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, timely reports from Iraqi journalists
Multinational Force, website of the occupation authorities
Displacement, refugees
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, reports from Jordan and elsewhere
Relief Web, a compilation of many NGOs' and IOs' field reports, on Iraq
"Security, Displacement and Iraq" from the Brookings Institution, Aug. 2007
"Rate of Displacement Rising," UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Aug. 2007
Iraqi Red Crescent Report, 2007
Iraqis in Jordan, 2007, numbers and characteristics, FAFO and UNHCR
Mortality surveys/analysis
New England Journal of Medicine, mortality study by the Iraq Ministry of Health, January 2008. Supplementary data (for total mortality data). Analysis by Juan Cole.
Opinion Research Business, London (Jan. 2008), finds one million Iraqis killed in war
Gilbert Burnham et al, "Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional
cluster sample survey," The Lancet (Oct. 2006), finding 600,000 dead by violence to July 2006
Iraq Body Count, and the U.N. site (above)
Opinion surveys of Iraqis
March 2008 poll: Results of surge, quality of life mixed in Iraqis' view
ABC News (March 2007), a large sample conducted jointly with other news media (BBC, USA Today)
Opinion Research Business (March 2007 survey) on general effects of the war on daily life and views
State Department (Sept. 2006), showing large majorities opposed to U.S. presence
University of Maryland (Sept. 2006), U.S. provoking more violence than it is preventing
University of Maryland (Sept. 2006), Iraqis want U.S. out within year
University of Michigan (June 2006)
Human Rights Conditions
Amnesty International: 5-year report, "Carnage and Despair"; and its 2006 report on torture and detentions
The Observer (London), Oct. 2006, status of women
Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2007, status of women
Les Roberts, "The Iraq War: Do Civilian Casualties Matter?" Audit of the Conventional Wisdom/MIT Center for International Studies (May 2005).
Understanding Violence
The New Sunni Landscape, reports from International Crisis Group ( 30 April 2008)
Video: Iraq's Three Civil Wars - Talk by Juan Cole, Dec. 10, 2007
Violence and Insecurity: The Challenge in the Global South, Diane E. Davis
Human Bombs: Rethinking Religion and Terror, by Nichole Argo
Why Do Islamist Groups Become Transnational and Violent? Quinn Mecham
Transnational Violence in the Persian Gulf, MIT workshop report (2006)
The Ontology of "Political Violence": Action and Identity in Civil Wars, By Stathis N. Kalyvas