Important New Violent Death Estimates for the War in Peru with Implications Beyond just Peru: Part 3

This post continues a series that started here and continued here.  The earlier posts covered Sylvio Rendon's critique of the statistical report of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).  Rendon argues that the two striking and central statistical claims made by the TRC are both wrong.  These claims are:  The true number of deaths in …

Important New Violent Death Estimates for the War in Peru with Implications Beyond just Peru: Part 2

This is a follow up to last week's post about new estimates,  published by Silvio Rendon, of human losses in the war in Peru, 1980 to 2000. Important context is that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Peru published estimates that were quite surprising in at least two respects:  The TRC's estimate for the total number …

Important New Violent Death Estimates for the War in Peru with Implications Beyond just Peru: Part 1

Silvio Rendon just published an important new paper that challenges statistical work done for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Peru on violent deaths in the Peruvian conflict, 1980 to 2000. I can only scratch the surface in one post.  So I plan to focus on a few central points and elaborate later.  Two authors of …