Violence prevention – Rethinking Security

Preventing Violence: Lessons from Health and Social Care

by Anna Gillions13 January 202224 February 2022

Connections between violence and health have been revealed in a number of ways, not least through the World Health Organisation’s recognition of violence as a public health problem. Anna Gillions asks what we can learn from reviewing approaches to violence from the health and social care sector.

Invisible Solutions: Embracing uncertainty to prevent violence

by Ashley Macmillan7 October 202110 December 2021

Despite a consensus that preventing violence is better and cheaper than trying to cure or contain it, almost all governments persist in vastly over-resourcing coercive responses. Ashley Macmillan argues for proactive and inclusive peace and security policies to be as normal as preventive measures in public health.