{"product_id":"the-end-of-violence-eliminating-the-worlds-most-dangerous-epidemic","title":"The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Violence is globally ubiquitous--across countries and continents, class, race, ethnicity, and gender--because, like so many diseases, it doesn't discriminate. Which is why \n\u003ci\u003eThe End of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e is so important. With its evidence-based solutions that can reach hundreds of millions of people, Dr. Slutkin's work can improve the health and lives of people all around the world.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eChris Elias, president, Global Development, Gates Foundation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGARY SLUTKIN, MD\u003c\/b\u003e is a physician and epidemiologist, widely recognized for pioneering the epidemic control approach to violence. 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. Returning to the US in 2000, he founded and led Cure Violence Global to adapt these methods to control and reduce violence in communities across the US and around the world. Dr. Slutkin has presented the science and results of treating violence as an epidemic disease to the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the State Department, Harvard Law School, the Institute of Medicine, MIT, the United States Congress, and the National Intelligence Council. The success of his approach 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Gary Slutkin is one of the most important thinkers and activists in the vital effort to understand and reduce violent crime....an invaluable contribution.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eSteven Pinker\u003c\/b\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Dr. Slutkin can predict violence and see it move from one person to another, like a contagion. And like disease transmission, he shows violence can be interrupted, and potentially cured. He gives hope to what has always felt like a hopeless issue.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eDr. Sanjay Gupta, associate Chief of Neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital, Chief Medical Correspondent For CNN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"No more pressing challenge faces us today than the epidemic of violence. Surprisingly, there is a cure. In this all-important book, epidemiologist Gary Slutkin brings 25 years of deep experience and knowledge to show us how we can use the paradigm of public health to cure the world of this deadly epidemic. This book could not be more relevant or useful.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eWilliam Ury\u003c\/b\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times bestselling Author of Getting to Yes, Co-founder of the Harvard Program on Negotiation and the International Negotiation Network with Jimmy Carter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Dr. Slutkin is revolutionizing the field entirely. This book does more than explain his discovery that violence is a communicable disease--it also offers extremely practical applications. The world needs this book now to change the tide of violence and build a world of peace.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eRima Salah, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"The End of Violence is a visionary work. A must-read, not only for practitioners but also for everyday people who care about their families, their futures, and those around them.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eDr. Susan L. Bissell, Founding Director, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, former Global Chief, Child Protection, UNICEF\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Gives us a new way of understanding violence and a proven way of stopping it. His book will help us be better parents, keep our families safe, and help our children have a better future free of violence.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eShannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Dr. Slutkin is the person who illuminated, in both theory and practice, the science of how violence acts as a contagious disease. This book shows how he came to that realization, how it works, and what we need to do now. The results documented in the United States, Latin America, and beyond are truly remarkable. Dr. Slutkin gives us hope by providing a new path to make violence prevention a reality in the very communities most heavily impacted by this scourge.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eJames Mercy, former director of the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Twenty-five years ago, I sought out Gary Slutkin while searching for a solution to the gun violence we experienced in Los Angeles. I got far more than I hoped for. The methods he describes in his groundbreaking new book helped reduce our gun violence to historic lows and save thousands of lives.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eCharlie Beck, former chief of police, Los Angeles Police Department\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Dr. Slutkin's revelation of violence as a disease is nothing short of a paradigm shift. Violence has been misdiagnosed and mismanaged for too long. The science and movement in this book will move us forward as a species.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003ePeter Piot, founding executive director of UNAIDS and co-discoverer of the Ebola virus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eThe End of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e shows how urgent it is to see and manage violence in an entirely new way. For leaders responsible for public safety, these lessons are truly a matter of life or death. But we all need to wake up fast to these innovative insights about all forms of violence--from community violence to police violence to political violence--if this country is to have a chance.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eKhalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, Princeton University, and founder and director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"This book does more than explain Dr. Slutkin's discovery that violence is a communicable disease--it also offers extremely practical applications. We're overdue to take its lessons and apply them everywhere: in our neighborhoods, in our cities, and around the world. The world needs this book now to change the tide of violence and build a world of peace.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eRima Salah, former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Science sometimes totally upends our view of the world--from our revolving around the sun, to invisible disease-causing germs, to understanding violence differently than we had: as something to treat as if it were an infectious disease and cure with a new approach. This is the type of discovery that can change the course of human health and even human history.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eDr. Al Sommer, dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Dr. Slutkin sees things differently than most of us, and the result is that violence has a new diagnosis and now belongs in a new category--a health epidemic. I have no doubt that Dr. Slutkin's discovery and its practical applications will result in a global campaign to stop violence and that it will succeed. This book takes us on his path to discovery and gives us the science and the way forward.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eCéline Gounder, senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation; internist, infectious disease specialist, and epidemiologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"As the longest-serving director of the U.S. Department of Justice's programs and research agency and cochair of President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, I have encountered many approaches to reducing violence and improving life in our communities. Dr. Slutkin's approach changed the way we see things and much of what we do in a more fundamental way. This book shows us something brand new--something we didn't know before about violence--and how our future may be more hopeful than we thought.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eLaurie Robinson, former assistant attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"In a country driven by violence, it's difficult to see our carnage for what it is: a disease. Pay close attention to the work Slutkin has done to separate violence from politics, poverty, and morality, and you will never see it the same way again.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eRafael Alvarez, author of The Fountain of Highlandtown and former staff writer for The Wire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"We have needed a new solution to violence and forced displacement for decades. Now we have a breakthrough. \n\u003ci\u003eThe End of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a whole new way of seeing and helping to solve these previously intractable problems. An urgent read.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eMark Connolly, senior advisor, UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A book that will help each of us feel safer and more able to protect the people around us. To read this book is to have hope--and also the tools to be safe and help change things.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eLeon Andrews, president and CEO of Equal Measure and former director of race, equity, and leadership, National League of Cities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth is far more hopeful: violence is a disease that can be cured. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here, epidemiologist and violence prevention specialist Dr. Gary Slutkin reclassifies violence as a a disease: one that enters the brain and infects people, communities, and countries via the same process as other epidemics. When shootings occur in a school or community, a political figure is assassinated, or an authoritarian leader directs violence in his nation's own cities, these are not just tragedies, but disease outbreaks that must be interrupted and contained. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As an epidemiologist, Dr. Slutkin led teams to end epidemics of cholera and tuberculosis, then HIV\/ AIDS in Africa and Asia with the World Health Organization. Returning to the US, he began to discover the invisible science of violence--and how to contain it using the very same epidemic control methods. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe End of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e offers a time-tested roadmap for recovery: the playbook that has been used to dramatically reduce or eliminate violence in many of the most dangerous neighborhoods throughout the US and Latin America and has been successfully adapted to curtail political violence, election violence, and gender-based violence in countries around the world. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Domestic violence, mass shootings, state tyranny, and war are all syndromes of the exact same disease, all requiring the same interventions. We already have the tools to protect ourselves, heal our communities, and end violence in our lifetime. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It is now up to us to use them \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/15\/2026 (EAN 9780316520119, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496033845526,"sku":"9780316520119","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780316520119.jpg?v=1783051232","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/the-end-of-violence-eliminating-the-worlds-most-dangerous-epidemic","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}