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The Global Registry of Violent Deaths (GReVD) will be a single catalog of every violent death coded by time and location. The initiative will resolve coding issues across sources and ensure that violent deaths are not left behind through the unified efforts of a wide and growing consortium. This brief describes the initiative. It introduces basic concepts including estimates using an upper bound and lower bound approach, immediate and long-term challenges and milestones and the partners in the GReVD consortium.
Violent death has a different meaning to different stakeholders. Conflict-related deaths and intentional homicides are certainly part of violent deaths, but do not wholly capture the concept. Because of these varying definitions, the consortium approach involves identifying upper bound and lower bound estimates to violent deaths and improving precision (reducing the band between bounds) over time. This brief introduces basic definitions and concepts related to violent death and asks the reader where they would draw the line.
This paper aims at describing the present state and methodology of the Small Arms Survey’s Global Violent Deaths database (GVD), currently the broadest database on violent deaths, and how it relates to the vision for a Global Registry of Violent Deaths (GReVD), which ultimately aims to produce a count of actual violent deaths, coded by location and time. After assessing the various data sources and considering gaps and limitations of current data processes, the paper highlights the added value of a complementary registry approach.