Collaborative Community Approaches to Addressing Serious Violence

Dear Colleagues,

The World Health Organization (2002) classified violence as a leading international public health problem, requiring immediate intervention. Violence is a pervasive social problem whose causes and consequences are inextricably linked to individuals, families, institutions, communities, and societies. The negative consequences of violence, and serious violence especially, reverberate beyond the immediate moment and location. By bringing together partners with varied skills, whole-system multiagency approaches are advocated as the leading means of targeting serious violence. With this backdrop in mind, this Special Issue will examine a variety of collaborative, community-based approaches to preventing and reducing serious violence across the global landscape. The contributors will be practitioners and researchers whose work focuses on the prevention and reduction of serious interpersonal violence in communities. The typologies of serious violence discussed by the collaborators can include youth violence, street gang membership, and violence against women. The articles will address the collaborative nature of serious violence prevention work, recognizing that violence is multicausal and that solutions are needed across various socioecological domains. Each article will describe a community-level collaborative approach to preventing and reducing serious violence. Successes and lessons learned from the approaches will be identified, and the transportability of the approaches to other locations will be explored.

Contributions have to follow one of the three categories (article/review/conceptual paper) of papers for the journal and address the topic of the Special Issue.

Dr. Jaimee Mallion
Prof. Erika Gebo
Guest Editors

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