Podcast: Casualty Recording Post-Chilcot

The UK launch of the first-ever set of international standards for recording casualties for use in the field and as a resource for conflict analysts (published 23 November 2016). These Standards have been developed by UK-based NGO Every Casualty over a three-year period with the intensive involvement of casualty recording organisations around the world, and of major end users such as the ICC, UNOCHA, and ICRC. The publication of these standards is particularly timely in light of the Chilcot Report into the Iraq War which highlights the failure of the UK government properly to acknowledge and account for Iraqi casualties, and calls on the UK government to make every reasonable effort to identify and to understand the likely and actual effects of its military actions on civilians. Dr Rachel Kerr from the Department of War studies interviewed Co-Directors of Every Casualty Worldwide, and Co-founders of Iraq Body Count Hamit Dardagan and John Sloboda. For more information, visit http://www.everycasualty.org/