After conflict physical infrastructures and equipment are destroyed. Political and socioeconomic structures are used to be dramatically altered. They need to be rebuilt upgraded or renovated. Civil service is to be reconfigured if not at least restored with a minimum of skilled people with enough expertise to satisfy people basic needs bearing in mind the huge toll of losses of human resources at the aftermath of a conflict. The first step to address these restoration and mending issues is the reference to the ‘number’. At the outset of each action, for every matter what’s the number? To make any decision a specific number is at stake. At the end of each process the number is considered as target. ‘Numbers’ or figures become the key ingredients for assessment, decision making, policy making, performance indicators as well as results and goals. [Read more]

 

The various cases below illustrate how statistics is used to provide information that can be well understood, debatable, improved or changed. Statistics present different perspectives and can be interpreted in many ways depending to each analyst.

 

Four cases are available below. Please click on each country name below to learn more about them.