Role of official statistics in situations of conflict and post-conflict.

The adoption of the ten fundamental principles of official statistics represents an important milestone in the process of empowering official statistics. These principles, however, fall short of providing a framework for reasonable development of statistical functions in situations of conflict or post-conflict. Statistical development in countries passing through crises should be viewed as a collective responsibility of the international statistical community. For this to happen, official statistics should play a more involved and proactive role in measuring, reporting, and monitoring conditions of nations in crises. We discuss rights and obligations of National Statistical Systems and the Global Statistical System, and propose certain measures for empowering official statistics at national level as a leader of change.We invite the international community of statisticians to assume responsibility for promoting a second generation of the ten fundamental principles of official statistics, on the basis of a new groundbreaking role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]