Revkin shared the story during a Think Global event at the Duke Global Health Institute titled “Human Rights, Health and Conflict: Counting Civilian Harm.” Panelists discussed the challenge of accurately assessing the impact of war and violence on civilian life, which they argued includes not only assessing death and mortality from conflict, but considering reverberating effects on societies in the wake of military action. Debarati Guha-Sapir Ph.D., director of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, discussed the importance of using sound epidemiological approaches to estimate the number of people who die as a result of conflict.