Evidence architecture
Three kinds of source
Conceptual and empirical literature
Used to define questions, situate AIR, identify rival explanations and assess what existing research can and cannot establish.
Record-level public sources
Used to support dates, conduct, legal status, victims, actors and coded pathway evidence for a specific record.
Indicator sources
Used to define and populate country-year measures. Source, unit, population, comparability and series-break metadata travel with the indicator.
Sources do not substitute for design
A respected source does not turn an ecological comparison into causal evidence or a theoretical claim into a verified case fact.
Submitted-paper register
Manuscript bibliography
The citations below were extracted from the submitted AIR manuscript. Their presence documents what the manuscript cited; it does not mean that every bibliographic field, URL or substantive claim has completed independent verification. That work is being recorded separately.
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Downloadable source indexes
Case and social-context evidence
The public Social Context source index is kept with its release so that source identifiers, names and retained links can be inspected without relying on a prose bibliography. Case-source and internal evidence-management fields remain in the research infrastructure but are outside the project lead-approved 22-field public case schema. Their omission from the public case CSV is a data-minimisation decision, not a statement that the case records lack underlying public-source research.
Continuing quality assurance
Reference verification is versioned work
Metadata verification should check author or institutional body, title, year, publisher or journal, DOI or stable URL, and the source’s actual relevance to the claim for which it is used. A citation can be bibliographically correct yet still be weak evidence for a particular inference.
Corrections will be attached to the affected register or release rather than silently changing a citation. Where a source cannot be directly accessed, that limitation will be stated.