Managing, Reducing, and Preventing Fear of Violence - A Workshop July 21-23, 2020 | 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm ET Advanced Registration Required The role of fear in violence globally is complex and importa...

The Global Violence Prevention Forum aims to facilitate dialogue and exchange by bringing together experts from diverse areas of violence prevention, including: behavioral scientists, policy makers, c...

Building upon the growing evidence-base surrounding adverse childhood experiences, this workshop will take a systems-based approach to exploring the ways in which this science can be moved from bench...

On December 1-2, 2016, the Forum on Global Violence Prevention will hold a two-day workshop to illuminate and explore the ways in which violence prevention practitioners can best share their findings...

An ad hoc planning committee held a 1-day public workshop to explore the issues of child labor and forced labor in an international context. The International Labor Organization (ILO) reports that, as...

Adopted by global leaders in September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) build upon the success of the eight anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals adopted and in 2000 and supported gl...

Defined by the World Health Organization as the rules or expectations of behavior within a specific cultural or social group, these often unspoken norms offer social standards of appropriate and inapp...

Violence is a major public health and safety issue around the world. In 2011, suicide and homicide respectively accounted for 798,000 and 486,000 lives lost (WHO, 2014). While violence affects all com...

Approach: Using an ecological framework that focuses on points of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and intervention*, this 2-day workshop will focus on intimate partner violence (IPV) in Ug...

An ad hoc committee will plan a 2-day public workshop to explore the relationship between mental health and violence. The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions with the goal of l...

Violence and related forms of abuse against elders is a global public health and human rights problem with far-reaching consequences, resulting in increased death, disability, and exploitation with co...

Evidence shows that violence is not inevitable, and that it can be prevented. Successful violence prevention programs exist around the world, but a comprehensive approach is needed to systematically a...

The contagion of violence is a universal phenomenon, occurring at all levels of society and affecting a broad spectrum of individuals. It occurs globally, within all societies, and is transmitted thro...

Over the past 25 years, those working in the field of violence prevention have brought about a major paradigm shift from an assumption that violence is inevitable to the recognition that violence is p...

The economic costs of violence are high, but the social costs, less defined and more difficult to measure, may be higher. In the US, violence results in increased healthcare costs and productivity los...