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Gary Slutkin will discuss his new book The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic. A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation. About the book: 'The End of Violence' is a total paradigm-shift in our understanding and approach to violence, in fact reclassifies violence as a contagious epidemic disease. Dr. Slutkin also shows that using the epidemic control system that rid the world of other epidemic diseases, already shown to work to eliminate violence, with dozens of communities already gone to zero shootings and killings.
After 20 years fighting epidemics of infectious diseases in the U.S., Africa and Asia with the World Health Organization, Dr. Slutkin returned to Chicago and saw violence acting the same way as these other diseases. He then founded Cure Violence Global to show that violence not only behaves like other epidemics, but its spread can be interrupted and stopped using the same playbook. This approach is now being used widely, and for many different types of violence.
In this book, Dr. Slutkin reveals the discovery of how we have misdiagnosed violence, its reclassification, and reveals the invisible brain processes of how violence spreads from person to person and country to country. He also found that both the contagion and its interruption can work for all forms of violence. This can include child abuse, community violence, violence against women, suicide, and even war, genocide and authoritarian tyranny.
The book provides stories and data on success for several of these different forms of violence in Chicago, Baltimore, NYC, Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Iraq, Syria and even to stop a potential nuclear war between the U.S. and North Korea. With this revolutionary book, we now have not only a new diagnosis of violence – as epidemic disease - but a new and now proven method that stops it, with results in dozens of communities and countries.
This gives us as an entirely new understanding, a new language and the path to violence elimination.
About the author: Dr. Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist formerly of the World Health Organization, the Founder and CEO of Cure Violence, and an innovator in epidemic management, public health, behavior change, and data-based approaches to local and global problems.
He led or co-led efforts to reverse epidemics of tuberculosis and cholera in 40 refugee camps, led the efforts to start the national AIDS programs with the 13 countries in the epicenter of the epidemic in central and East Africa and, led World Health Organization’s efforts to reverse the AIDS epidemic in Uganda, the only country to successfully reverse its AIDS epidemic at the time.
After 10 years abroad, Dr. Slutkin returned home to the U.S. and shifted his focus to violence, seeing it as an epidemic process. He is credited with having fully revealed the scientific and practical links for seeing and treating violence as a standard health epidemic. In the year 2000 he founded Cure Violence which has achieved 40% to 70% drops in violence in communities around the world using these methods. The approach has also been successfully adapted to curtail political violence, election violence, and gender-based violence in countries around the world.
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