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Volume 360:1585-1588 April 16, 2009 Number 16
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The Weapons That Kill Civilians — Deaths of Children and Noncombatants in Iraq, 2003–2008
Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks, M.D., M.R.C.Psych., Hamit Dardagan, Gabriela Guerrero Serdán, M.A., Peter M. Bagnall, M.Res., John A. Sloboda, Ph.D., F.B.A., and Michael Spagat, Ph.D.

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Armed violence, such as that in the ongoing conflict in Iraq, is a threat to global health.1 It causes serious injuries and deaths of civilians, makes orphans of children, traumatizes populations, and undermines the ability of communities to provide adequate medical care even as it dramatically increases health care needs. Moreover, indiscriminate or intentional harm to civilians violates humanitarian principles and basic human rights. Believing that a careful assessment of the effects of different kinds of weapons on civilians in Iraq was needed, we used the database of the Iraq Body Count (IBC), a nongovernmental organization that documents civilian violent . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. Hicks is an honorary lecturer in the Department of Health Service and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, and is an unpaid nonexecutive board member of Conflict Casualties Monitor, the nonprofit organization that manages the IBC. Mr. Dardagan is a cofounder and principal analyst, Mr. Bagnall a software architect and developer, and Dr. Sloboda a cofounder and analyst at the IBC. Dr. Sloboda is also a professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway College, University of London, London. Ms. Guerrero Serdán is a Ph.D. candidate and Dr. Spagat a professor in the Department of Economics, Royal Holloway College, University of London, London.


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