PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO. When Florence Nightingale in the early 19th century went to the Crimean Peninsula to care for the wounded of that war she discovered to her horror that soldiers more frequently died from the infections gotten at the primitive army hospitals than from combat or their war inflicted wounds.
The infrastructure at the hospitals as well as the hygienic conditions were abominable. She changed these, and she began collecting reliable statistics on the causes of death and chronic war inflicted damages.
Contemporary wars are usually fought in regions not unlike those she encountered, with insufficient infrastructures, such as health facilities and procedures for the collection of statistics and data on the war related casualties.
The original purpose of this project was to analyze existing data collections such as the PRIO battle death data and the Uppsala data on armed conflict to see whether they could be disaggregated according to gender and age as well as to causes of death.
That message, repeated in SCR , was that the plight of women could only be ameliorated if they were given a voice in all the arenas and decision making processes that affected their lives. The causal relationship between powerlessness and violence has been repeated in the resolutions and With this as background we wanted to explore both data as well as the existing research literature to find out what documentation there was about male vs female mortality in armed conflict.
