Cure Violence Global provides these resources on effective violence prevention to help inform people about the approach.
Endorsements
“This is the solution.”
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio
June 10, 2020 press conference
International Publications featuring Cure Violence
Inspire: Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children
WHO, UNICEF, UNODC, USAID, PAHO, World Bank
“According to multiple quasi-experimental evaluations conducted in Chicago, Baltimore, Brooklyn and New York City (87–90), the Cure Violence programme is associated with fewer shootings, killings and retaliatory killings in communities where it has been implemented fully, with 20–70% reductions in violence.”
Videos on Cure Violence
Cure Violence Colombia
Cure Violence Trinidad
Cure Violence South Africa
The Daily Show w/ Trevor Noah (2016)
Cure Violence Animated Short
Cure Violence Animated Short #2
The Interrupters — Award winning documentary
Flamo – clips from The Interrupters
Robert Wood Johnson Fdn – Cure Violence in Chicago
Introduction to Cure Violence
Cure Violence RWJF video
Cure Violence – Relationship with Police
Video Interviews with Cure Violence People
New York City Evaluation Presentation
NYC Panel – Cure Violence in Action
Panel – State of the Evidence on Cure Violence
ITV News
You & Me Morning Show
Gary Slutkin interview with Kelly Wright
Wayne Brewton, Baltimore Safe Streets
Dennis Wise, Baltimore Safe Streets
Video of Presentations on Cure Violence
Gary Slutkin – Dent Conference
Gary Slutkin – PopTech
Gary Slutkin – CUSP 2013
Gary Slutkin – 2013 Elfenworks
Gary Slutkin presentation to MacLean Center
Podcasts featuring Cure Violence
New Yorker Podcast
WNYC – The Takeaway
PRI’s The World
NPR – Tiny Spark
WNYC – The Takeaway
Ted Radio Hour
Ethics Talk
Anne E. Casey
Innovation Hub
Books featuring Cure Violence
“Violence is a contagious disease. This is good news as this knowledge offers new strategies for control.”
“Cure Violence seeks to reduce lethal violence by working with the highest risk in the most impacted communities…”
“Gary Slutkin of [Cure Violence] wrote to me, “I believe that someday we may be able to contain violence, as we have so many other problems of history.””
“A central characteristic of the Cure Violence model is the use of credible messengers as workers – individuals from the same communities who are trusted and have access to the people who are most at risk of perpetrating violence.”
“The Cure Violence Health Model is a health approach for reducing violence. This model is based on established methods that have been shown to control other epidemic diseases.”
“What Slutkin brings … is training and mentoring, technical skill, functional (not locally specific) knowledge, a scientifically developed methodology, and a perspective on how these kinds of problems work in many different places.”
“Successful replication of the [Cure Violence] model in Iraq validates this implicit understanding that violence is a learned behavior that acts like an infectious disease.”
“Through the epidemiologist Gary Slutkin … I learned to view social contagions as neither inherently good or bad.”
“Slutkin was stunned and disappointed by the so-called solutions that existed for treating violence.”
“Violence is a health issue because there is a specific scientific health lens that helps to better understand and effectively prevent violence.”
“The statistical evidence demonstrates specific reductions in [killings] in [Cure Violence] communities.”