Links

On this page you will find a number of links to information regarding Iraqi civilian casualties, the war in Iraq and both documentation of and related sites exploring the history and context of contemporary memorials.   Links are not listed in any particular order or preference and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the project organizers.  

Iraqi Civilian Casualties:

Iraq Body Count
http://www.iraqbodycount.org

The Lancet, Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey
Volume 368, Number 9545, 21 October 2006, Prof Gilbert Burnham MD, Prof Riyadh Lafta MD b,
Shannon Doocy PhD and Les Roberts PhD
(you will need to register at the Lancet site to access this article, it is free and well worth the trouble) http://www.thelancet.com/home

The Iraq Index
The Brookings Institution (provides monthly reports as downloadable pdf files, including "Police and Civilian Deaths by Region".
http://www.brookings.edu/iraqindex

icasualties.org: Iraq Coalition Casualty Count (this site also features information about civilian casualties in both Iraq and Afghanistan)
http://icasualties.org/oif/default.aspx

Niqash: The Place to Debate Iraq
http://www.niqash.org

United Nations Development Programme: Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004
http://www.iq.undp.org/ILCS/overview.htm

Online Journal: Estimating civilian deaths in Iraq – six surveys
By Nicolas J S Davies
http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_643.shtml


Memorials:

Facing History and Ourselves: Memory, History & Memorials
http://www.facinghistory.org/campus/memorials.nsf/Home?OpenFrameSet

Goethe-Institut Constructed Memory, Dealing with the Past, Learning from History
http://www.goethe.de/ges/ztg/dos/dos/ern/ger/enindex.htm

World Trade Center Site: Memorial Competition, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/

The New York Times Portaits of Grief
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/portraits/index.html

Vietnam Veterans Memorial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Lin

Bruce Lee Statue, Bosnia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4474316.stm
http://www.reason.com/news/show/33300.html

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe
http://www.holocaust-mahnmal.de/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4531669.stm

The Harburg Monument Against Fascism, Jochen Gerz
http://www.facinghistory.org/campus/memorials.nsf/Home?OpenFrameSet
http://www.gerz.fr/index.html

The Aschrott-Brunnen Monument, Horst Hoheisel
http://www.facinghistory.org/campus/memorials.nsf/Home?OpenFrameSet
http://www.zermahlenegeschichte.de/

Iraq Veterans Memorial
http://iraqmemorial.org/

Eyes Wide Open: An Exhibition on the Human Cost of the War in Iraq
http://www.afsc.org/eyes/

Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA London
http://www.ica.org.uk/Memorial%20to%20the%20Iraq%20War+13499.twl

4th Infantry Division Memorial, Kalat
http://www.talkingproud.us/EditorChoice032804.html

Memorials, Harvard World Trade Center Regeneration
http://www.archinode.com/wtcmwj.html


Iraq War and Politics:

Niqash: The Place to Debate Iraq
http://www.niqash.org

Operation Iraqi Freedom Official Website of Multi-National Force - Iraq
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/


Blogs by Iraqis

Baghdad Burning, riverbend
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

A Family in Baghdad
http://afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com/

Raed in the Middle, Raed Jarrar's Blog
http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/