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About Mohd Khalid Naseemi

Mohd Khalid Naseemi is an MA in International Affairs with specialization of International Development Policy (IDP) from Norman Peterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) of Carleton University. He has an undergraduate degree (BA) from the Faculty of Journalism and Communication from Kabul University, and a Master’s degree in Political Science from Islamic Azad University (IAU) in Kabul. He has completed his MA Thesis on federalism, multiethnic politics, and decentralization in Afghanistan. He is currently serving as the Director of Afghanistan’s Chapter of Global Union of Scientists for Peace (GUSP). For over fifteen years he has worked in the areas of policy, administration, and management in various positions and has a wide range of experience with government, civil society, and NGOs in Canada and Afghanistan.

Counting Conflict: Quantifying Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan

September 27, 2022 by and
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Abstract: Civilian casualty counts are products of specific methods, epistemologies, standards of proofs, and definitions. This article analyzes how the US military and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan assess civilian casualties. These counts are based on different and contestable concepts of who counts as a civilian, what counts as conflict violence, and what counts of evidence of civilian casualties. We illustrate this argument with four examples: the distinction between direct and indirect deaths, the boundary between civilians and non-civilians, the boundary between conflict Continue reading → Continue reading →