Partner und Internationale Organisationen
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BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, ES, FI, FR, IT, NL, NO, PL, SE, UK
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Abstract
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Kurzbeschreibung da oben kein Platz This project is designed to advance our understanding of the nature and extent of armed violence. The project aims to develop a sophisticated, yet standardized and cost-effective, method of collecting data on violent incidents. At the heart of this approach is the Taback-Coupland model-a database and associated analytical methods for recording and analyzing instances of violence reported in the news media and other outlets. Analysis of violent events currently relies on several sources of data: media reports; epidemiological surveys; and hospital, morgue, and similar records. These techniques incur varying degrees of cost. Analysis of media reports is by far the least costly but has yet to be standardized into a reliable and informative database for subsequent statistical analysis and cross-case comparison. This project will revise, test, and evaluate the Taback-Coupland model for small arms research and promote it as a viable tool for all researchers and organizations working on small arms and broader human security issues. The database, and the statistical methods used to analyse its contents, are designed to triangulate with existing and more costly means of data collection and analysis. The findings of these reliable statistical and survey-based approaches will be compared with the distribution and frequency of violent events recorded in the database. The project will assess whether the reporting of individual incidents of armed violence by the media and other outlets can be used as a reliable proxy indicator to measure actual levels of armed violence. While various media groups, international organizations, and NGOs record data on violent events, total counts currently tend to underestimate the full number of violent incidents. The Taback-Coupland model can be used to compare these counts with reliable (yet costly) estimates of levels of armed violence, such as those derived from epidemiological surveys. The project will establish ratios and statistical formulas, thereby enabling researchers using the model to measure the extent of armed violence with a less resource-intensive data gathering technique. The Taback-Coupland database provides a robust and comprehensive method of collecting data, which will allow for in-depth exploration of the dynamics of armed violence, as well as for meaningful cross-country comparisons. This user-friendly database is a reliable means of cataloguing small arms death, injury, and victimization, a simple method for establishing key victim and perpetrator groups, and an effective approach to assessing the prevalence and patterns of weapons misuse. The project will place strong emphasis on promoting the database for use by various actors engaged in recording events of armed violence, with the aim of better standardizing data collection worldwide. ABSTRACT: This project tested the practical application of the Taback-Coupland method of armed violence measurement for policy relevant research using case study material from Uganda, Nigeria, Mauritania, Nepal, Burundi, Iraq, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and El Salvador. The Taback-Coupland method is based on the detailed analysis of individual violent events. Several variables are considered, including: (a) the physical potential of the perpetrator (given by the nature and number of weapons used and the number of people acting as a group), (b) indicators of the intent and motivation behind the violence, (c) factors leading to the vulnerability of the victim, and (d) the context, location and timing of violence. A key focus of the approach is the analysis of the interaction between the perpetrator of violence and the victim. Each violent event that caused the opponent or victim physical harm is recorded within a database. For each event the time, place and context are recorded. The Small Arms Survey tested the use of the method for violence profiling purposes in countries where formal data collection is limited. Three different sources were used to compile the databases on violent events: media data, reports compiled by organisations in the field (including UN agencies and NGOs), and police and hospital records. The method was found to yield useful insights into the specific nature of violence for each of the studies. This study has used the mthod for several different purposes, including; perpetrator and victim profiling, violence mapping, assessment of violence trends and evaluation of violence reduction programmes. There are limitations to all of data sources used and further work on how to best assess biases inherent in these data sources is needed. Furthermore the analytical processes were found to be rather complex and highly time consuming. Development of software to automate some of the analytical steps would increase the speed in obtaining results.
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