**'Gary Slutkin is one of the most important thinkers and activists in the vital effort to understand and reduce violence….an invaluable contribution.' Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature**From the founder of Cure Violence Global and former Director of Interventions at the WHO, this is the essential guide to ending the violence epidemic worldwide.Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of lif...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth is far more hopeful: violence is a disease that can be cured.**Drawing on decades spent fighting infectious disease before founding Cure Violence Global, Dr Gary Slutkin shows that violence behaves like any other epidemic – it spreads through exposure, but it can also be interrupted, contained and ultimately eliminated. By treating violence as a contagious illness rather than a ...

A bold new approach for eliminating the world’s most dangerous epidemic—using the same epidemic control playbook that rid the world of other contagious diseases.Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth is far more hopeful: violence is a disease that can be cured.Here, epidemiologist and violence prevention specialist Dr. Gary Slutkin reclassifies violence as a a disease: one that enters the brain and infects people, communities, ...

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.“Leads us down an entirely new path to a world beyond violence” —Nicholas KristoffViolence 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, i...