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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.
2010
- Price, Megan and Daniel Guzmán, "Comments
to the article 'Is Violence Against Union Members in Colombia
Systematic and Targeted?'” 28 May 2010. (Available in
Spanish)
- Anita Gohdes. 2010. "Different
Convenience Samples, Different Stories: The Case of Sierra Leone."
Benetech.
- Tamy Guberek, Daniel Guzmán, Megan Price, Kristian Lum
and Patrick Ball, “To
Count the Uncounted: An Estimation of Lethal Violence in Casanare,”
A Report by the Benetech Human Rights Program. 10 February 2010.
(Available in Spanish)
- Silva, Romesh, Jeff Klingner and Scott Weikart, "State
Coordinated Violence in Chad under Hissene Habre: A Statistical
Analysis of Reported Prison Mortality in Chad's DDS Prisons and
Command Responsibility of Hissene Habre, 1982-1990." A
Report by Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group to Human
Rights Watch and the Chadian Association of Victims of Political
Repression and Crimes. 29 January 2010. (Available in French)
2009
- Guzman, D.R., Guberek, T., Shapiro, G.M., Zador, P. 2009. "Studying
Millions of Rescued Documents: Sampling Plan at the Guatemalan
National Police Archive (GNPA)." In JSM Proceedings,
Survey Research Methods Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical
Association.
- Shapiro, G.M., Guzman, D.R., Zador, P., Guberek, T., Price,
M.E., Lum, K. 2009. "Weighting
for the Guatemalan National Police Archive Sample: Unusual Challenges
and Problems." In JSM Proceedings, Survey Research Methods
Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
- Price, M.E., Guberek, T., Guzman, D.R., Zador, P., Shapiro,
G.M. 2009. "A
Statistical Analysis of the Guatemalan National Police Archive:
Searching for Documentation of Human Rights Abuses."
In JSM Proceedings, Survey Research Methods Section. Alexandria,
VA: American Statistical Association.
- Cibelli, Kristen, Amelia Hoover, and Jule Krüger.
2009. "Descriptive
Statistics From Statements to the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation
Commission," a Report by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group
at Benetech and Annex to the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission of Liberia. Palo Alto, California. Benetech.
- Silva, Romesh, Jasmine Marwaha & Jeff Klingner, "Violent
Deaths and Enforced Disappearances During the Counterinsurgency
in Punjab, India: A Preliminary Quantitative Analysis" A
Joint Report by Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group &Ensaaf,
Inc. January, 2009. Available online at http://www.hrdag.org/about/india-punjab.shtml.
2008
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
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
2003
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
- 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
1996
1991 – 1993
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