A major role of the ongoing HRDAG mission is to develop information technology solutions and statistical techniques to help build evidence-based arguments for one of the most critical social issues of our times – human rights.

2007

• Guzmán, Daniel, Tamy Guberek, Amelia Hoover, and Patrick Ball. 2007. "Missing People in Casanare." Benetech. Also available in Spanish - "Los Desaparecidos de Casanare."
  
  
• Ball, Patrick, Tamy Guberek, Daniel Guzmán, Amelia Hoover, and Meghan Lynch. 2007. "Assesing Claims of Declining Lethal Violence in Colombia." Benetech. Also available in Spanish - "Para Evaluar Afirmaciones Sobre la Reducción de la Violencia Letal en Colombia."
  
  
• Silva, Romesh, Britto Fernando, and Vasuki Nesiah. 2007. "Clarifying the Past and Commemorating Sri Lanka's Disappeared: a Descriptive Analysis of Enforced Disappearances Documented by Families of the Disappeared." Benetech & Families of the Disappeared.
  
  
• Ball, Patrick, Ewa Tabeau, and Philip Verwimp. 2007. "The Bosnian Book of the Dead: Assessment of the Database (Full Report)." Households in Conflict Network Research Design Note 5.
  
  
• Silva, Romesh and Patrick Ball. "The Demography of Conflict-Related Mortality in Timor-Leste (1974-1999): Empirical Quantitative Measurement of Civilian Killings, Disappearances & Famine-Related Deaths" In Statistical Methods for Human Rights, J. Asher, D. Banks and F. Scheuren, eds., Springer (New York) (2007)

2006

• Silva, Romesh and Patrick Ball. "The Profile of Human Rights Violations in Timor-Leste, 1974-1999", a Report by the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group to the Commission on Reception, Truth and Reconciliation. 9 February 2006. Available online in two formats.
  HTML | PDF.
  
  
• Silva, Romesh, and Patrick Ball. "The Demography of Large-Scale Human Rights Atrocities: Integrating demographic and statistical analysis into post-conflict historical clarification in Timor-Leste." Paper presented at the 2006 meetings of the Population Association of America.

2005

• Ball, Patrick. "On the Quantification of Horror: Field Notes on Statistical Analysis of Human Rights Violations." in Repression and Mobilization, ed. by Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston, and Carol Mueller. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P. 2005.
  
  
• Ball, Patrick. 2005. "Free Software," in The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. ed. by Carl Mitcham. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale.
  
  
• Silva, Romesh and Patrick Ball. "On the Use of Sample Surveys and Multiple Systems Estimations in Assessing Large-Scale Human Rights Violations: Recent Experiences from Timor-Leste." Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section – Joint Statistical Meetings. New York, (USA). August, 2005.
  
  
• Silva, Romesh. "Quantitative Data Analysis and Large-Scale Human Rights Violations: An Example of Applied Statistics at the Grassroots." Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society. Canberra (Australia). Volume 32, Number 2, May 2005.

2004

• Sierra Leone Statistical Appendix Adobe Acrobat PDF format, 407 Kb
  
  
• Foundation of Human Rights Statistics in Sierra Leone (abstr.) by Richard Conibere
  
  
• Ball, Patrick. 2004. "Statistics," in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. ed. by Dinah L. Shelton, Howard Adelman, Frank Chalk, Alexandre Kiss & William A. Schabas. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale.

2003

• Human freedom and free software: Why choices about technology matter to human rights advocates by Patrick Ball and Miguel Cruz
  
  
• How Many Peruvians Have Died?
  
  
• Preliminary Statistical Analysis of AVCRP & DDS Documents - A report to Human Rights Watch about Chad under the government of Hissène Habré, November 4, 2003 Adobe Acrobat PDF format, 151 kb
  
  
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Perú, Final Report - General Conclusions
  

2002

• Statistics and Slobodan by Patrick Ball and Jana Asher [Chance vol. 15, No. 4, 2002]
  
  
• Davenport, Christian, and Patrick Ball. "Views to a Kill: Exploring the Implications of Source Selection in the Case of Guatemalan State Terror, 1977-1996." Journal of Conflict Resolution 46(3): 427-450. 2002.
  
  
• Killings and Refugee Flow in Kosovo, March - June, 1999
• Responses to questions from ICTY office
• Corrigendum to ICTY
• Silva, Romesh "On the Maintenance and Measurement of Inter-Rater Reliability when Documenting Large-Scale Human Rights Violations." Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, the International Biometric Society (ENAR and WNAR), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Statistical Society of Canada. August, 2002.

2001

• Ball, Patrick. "Making the Case: The Role of Statistics in Human Rights Reporting." Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. 18(2-3):163-174. 2001.
  
  
• Chapman, Audrey R. and Patrick Ball. "The Truth of Truth Commissions: Comparative Lessons from Haiti, South Africa, and Guatemala." Human Rights Quarterly. 23(4):1-42. 2001

2000

• Justice Unknown, Justice Unsatisfied?
  
  
• Kosovo Migration Study
  
  
• Policy or Panic? The Flight of Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, March-May 1999: Click on “English” (“Albanian” or “Serbian”) under Table of Contents to accesses the html version
  
  
• Political Killings in Kosovo
  

1996

• Who Did What to Whom?
  

1991 – 1993

• Technical work at the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES-ng)

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