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Michael Spagat is a Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and previously served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Illinois. His research focuses on armed conflict analysis, particularly universal patterns in modern war, fabrication in survey research, and measurement challenges in war deaths. He blogs about war-related topics at https://mikespagat.wordpress.com/.
Spagat’s work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to peace and justice. His recent projects include analyzing the Gaza War death toll, improving casualty recording methodologies, and evaluating financial market impacts of conflicts. He has been a Principal Investigator (PI) on multiple research initiatives, including projects with Every Casualty Counts and the Oxford Research Group.
His research outputs span 66 publications, including articles in Nature, Journal of Peace Research, and PLoS Medicine. Notable contributions address civilian casualties in Iraq, spatial patterns of civilian targeting in African conflicts, and critiques of conflict data methodologies. His 2008 award-winning work on conflict patterns highlights his longstanding impact in the field.
Spagat actively engages in academic discourse through invited talks on topics like war death recording and the historical decline of conventional warfare. He has created datasets such as aflsmall.Rdata (2020) and collaborated on projects like the Karbala - 50 SIGACTs dataset (2019), which inform both academic research and policy.
