Gary Slutkin

The End of Violence (eBook, ePUB)

Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases. Violence is often described as a social issue, a moral failing, or a universal human instinct. But in fact, argues epidemiologist and violence prevention expert Dr. Gary Slutkin, violence is disease, infecting people and societies via the same process as any other epidemic. When a shooting occurs in a school, a political figure is assassinated, or an authoritarian leader invades a sovereign nation, it's not just a tragic event-it's an outbreak. As an infectious disease physician, Slutkin helped end the epidemics of cholera, tuberculosis, and AIDS in Africa and Asia with the World Health Organization. This led him to uncover the science of how violence enters our brains, replicates, and gets transmitted from one person to another. In THE END OF VIOLENCE, Dr. Slutkin offers a proven alternative to the failed strategies of deterrence and incarceration: a time-tested public health approach that reduces exposure, interrupts transmission, and prevents the disease from spreading. Using this playbook, Dr. Slutkin's organization, Cure Violence Global, has dramatically reduced or eliminated violence in some of the deadliest neighborhoods in Chicago, Baltimore, New York City, Los Angeles, and across central America. Similar methods have been used to end civil wars, avert a nuclear conflict, and curtail gender-based violence around the world. From mass shootings, to state tyranny, to genocide and war, it's all the same disease - and it also requires the same cure. We already have the tools we need to protect ourselves, heal our communities, and end all forms of violence. It's time to use them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780316520393
• Artikelnr.: 74855472

Autorenporträt

Dr. Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist, and innovator in violence reduction. As the Founder and Former CEO of Cure Violence Global, he is widely recognized for pioneering the epidemic control approach to violence prevention and revolutionizing the field. Formerly the Director of Interventions at the World Health Organization, Dr. Slutkin guided efforts to combat epidemics of tuberculosis, cholera, and AIDS in over twenty countries in Africa and Asia. In 2000, he founded Cure Violence Global, which applied these epidemiological methods to stop the spread of violence in some of the most violent neighborhoods in the United States, Latin America and the Middle East. Dr. Slutkin is has presented his science and solution-driven understanding of violence as an epidemic disease to the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the State Department, the Institute of Medicine, Harvard Law School, MIT, the U.S. Congress, and the National Intelligence Council. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, CNN, BBC. and in the award-winning film, The Interrupters."