A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a two-day public workshop to improve our understanding of fear of violence and the prevention of that fear at the individual and interpersonal levels in the US and globally. The workshop will examine the psychological and physiological consequences of fear of violence; where fear may be also instructive for surviving threats of violence; and the role perceiving and misperceiving risks plays in how individuals mediate and respond to fear of violence. It will also focus on prevalent forms of fear of violence at the interpersonal level, which will include: abuse of vulnerable populations (individuals with disabilities, children, and elders); fear of racially/ethnically-motivated violence; fear of intrusion (e.g., active shooters and break-ins); and fear of gender-based violence (including intimate partner violence). It will examine how these interpersonal forms of fear of violence may be exacerbated or enabled by limitations found within institutions, policies, and laws. Finally, it will examine salient intervention models that attenuate the biological and psychological consequences of fear of violence and these prevalent forms of interpersonal violence. The planning committee will develop the workshop agenda, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. Experts will be drawn from the public and private sectors as well as academic institutions to allow for multi-lateral, evidence-based discussions. A proceedings-in-brief of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.