The past two years have been a landmark moment for violence prevention, with the
publication of The Global Status Report on Violence Prevention 2014; a historic resolution …

Structural violence is the violence of injustice and inequity—“embedded in ubiquitous social
structures [and] normalized by stable institutions and regular experience”(Winter and …

Political violence is implicated in a range of mental health outcomes, including PTSD,
depression, and anxiety. The social and political contexts of people's lives, however, offer …

Violence has been explicitly identified as a significant public health problem. This glossary
clarifies widely used definitions and concepts of violence within the public health field …

The goal of this paper is to advance the theory of chronic and traumatic stressors that have
been identified as type III traumas in the trauma developmentally-based framework (DBTF) …

“To build peace requires visioning what constitutes peace and security across cultures,
nationalities, ethnicities, and between genders.” 1 Two key dimensions of women's security …

Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths
of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of …

This paper highlights the embeddedness of xenophobia in institutions through a theoretical
but empirically under-researched concept of structural violence. Drawing on in-depth …

This book addresses the major forms of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in children's sport,
including sexual, physical, and psychological violence and neglect. It reviews the historical …

Violence against children is a pervasive problem that affects approximately half of the
world's children each year, imposing heavy burdens of physical, psychological, and social …