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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13489.
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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

THE CONTAGION OF VIOLENCE—A WORKSHOP APRIL 30-MAY 1, 2012

OVERVIEW:
The contagion of violence is a universal phenomenon, occurring at all levels of society and affecting a broad spectrum of individuals. This workshop will present an interdisciplinary, ecological, life-course perspective on the contagion of violence, the processes that promote it, and mechanisms to interrupt and prevent the contagion of violence and promote the contagion of nonviolence.

OBJECTIVES:

  •  To examine the extent of contagion of violence, the different emotional and cognitive processes through which contagion occurs, and the social and structural moderators of the contagion of violence.

  •  To explore the role of exposure to violence and violent victimization in the spread of interpersonal and self-directed violence and of internalizing and externalizing psychological problems.

  •  To understand how the contagion of violence can be interrupted and prevented and how nonviolence can become contagious.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13489.
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DAY 1: MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012

Check-in will begin at 8:15 AM. A continental breakfast will be available.

8:50 AM Welcome
PATRICK KELLEY, Institute of Medicine

9:00 AM Opening Remarks
VALERIE MAHOLMES, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development

9:10 AM Introduction
JACQUELYN CAMPBELL, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Forum on Global Violence Prevention Co-Chair

9:20 AM Overview of the Contagion of Violence
GARY SLUTKIN, University of Illinois at Chicago

Moderated Q&A and Discussion

10:05 AM BREAK

10:30 AM - 12:45 PM

SESSION I: Contagion of Violence in Multiple Settings

This session will discuss how violence leads to additional violence. This can occur either as a “viral” spread of one act of violence to many acts of violence, or as a “spillover” effect from one setting or type of violence to another. How does the contagion of violence manifest across types of violence? How are types of violence interrelated? Conversely, how can the spread of violence be halted or prevented?

Facilitator: ROWELL HUESMANN, University of Michigan

10:30 AM Opening Remarks
ROWELL HUESMANN, University of Michigan

Brief Overviews

10:35 AM The Contagion of Street and Community Violence
JEFFREY FAGAN, Columbia Law School

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13489.
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10:50 AM The Contagion of Self-Directed Violence
MADELYN GOULD, Columbia University

11:10 AM The Contagion of Collective Violence
ERIC DUBOW, Bowling Green State University

11:25 AM The Contagion of Family Violence
CHARLOTTE WATTS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

11:40 AM Contagion, Group Marginalization, and Resilience
CARL BELL, Community Mental Health Council

11:55 AM Facilitated Panel Discussion

12:20 PM Moderated Q&A and Discussion

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM LUNCH

1:45 PM - 4:00 PM

SESSION II: Theories, Processes, and Mechanisms of Contagion

How and why does violence spread? This section will explore the internal and external processes and mechanisms at work. It will also explore the interruption of such processes and mechanisms, and their use for spreading nonviolent messaging and practices. Panelists will offer a brief overview of their respective perspectives and then engage in a facilitated discussion.

Facilitator: ROBERT URSANO, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress

1:45 PM Opening Remarks
ROBERT URSANO, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress

Brief Overviews

1:55 PM Social-Cognitive Processes in the Contagion of Violence
ROWELL HUESMANN, University of Michigan

2:10 PM Social Contagion and Group Dynamics in Contagion
DEANNA WILKINSON, The Ohio State University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13489.
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2:20 PM Contagion, Social Influence and Intimate Partner Violence
ANITA RAJ, University California, San Diego

2:30 PM The Role of Emotions and Evolution in Contagion
JEFFREY VICTOROFF, University of Southern California

2:40 PM The Neuroscience of Empathy and Contagion
JAMIL ZAKI, Stanford University

2:50 PM Imitation and Mirror Neurons in the Contagion Process
MARCO IACOBONI, University of California, Los Angeles

3:00 PM Facilitated Panel Discussion

3:35 PM Moderated Q&A and Discussion

3:50 PM Wrap-Up
ROBERT URSANO, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress

4:00 PM BREAK

4:20 PM - 5:30 PM

SESSION III: The Contagion at Work

This session will explore some recent, real-world examples of the spread of violence from singular events or settings. Speakers will also examine possibilities for preventing violence or mitigating the effects of violence.

Facilitator: GARY SLUTKIN, University of Illinois at Chicago

4:20 PM Opening Remarks
GARY SLUTKIN, University of Illinois at Chicago

4:25 PM Contagion in the London Riots
JASON FEATHERSTONE, Surviving Our Streets

4:40 PM Contagion in the Arab Spring
ZAINAB AL-SUWAIJ, American Islamic Congress

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13489.
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4:55 PM Facilitated Panel Discussion and Moderated Q&A

5:30 PM ADJOURN DAY 1

DAY 2: TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012

Check-in will begin at 8:15 AM. A continental breakfast will be available.

9:00 AM Overview of Day 1
ROWELL HUESMANN, University of Michigan

9:20 AM - 11:30 AM

SESSION IV: Social and Structural Moderators/Cofactors of the Contagion of Violence

This session will focus on how systems and practices can contribute to the exacerbation of, or the reduction and prevention of, the transmission of violence. Panelists will offer a brief overview of their respective perspectives and then engage in a facilitated discussion.

Facilitator: EVELYN P. TOMASZEWSKI, National Association of Social Workers

9:20 AM Opening Remarks
EVELYN P. TOMASZEWSKI, National Association of Social Workers

Brief Overviews

9:30 AM The Role of Punishment, Incarceration, and Re-entry
BARRY KRISBERG, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

9:45 AM The Role of Historical Trauma
IRIS PRETTYPAINT, Native Aspirations, Kauffman & Associates, Inc.

10:00 AM The Role of Family and Positive Parenting
DEBORAH GORMAN-SMITH, Chapin Hall

10:15 AM The Role of Migration and Population Displacement
FARIYAL ROSS-SHERIFF, Howard University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13489.
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10:30 AM Facilitated Panel Discussion

11:00 AM Audience Discussion and Moderated Q&A

11:30 AM BREAK and LUNCH (provided)

11:50 AM - 2:00 PM

SESSION V: Film Screening: The Interrupters

Shot over the course of a year, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in American cities. The Interrupters tells the stories of three Violence Interrupters who work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire, which uses a public health model to stop the cycle of violence in neighborhoods and communities. The Violence Interrupters, who have credibility because of their own personal histories, intervene in conflicts before they explode into violence.
Note: This film contains scenes of violence and adult language.

11:50 AM Overview
BRIAN FLYNN, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine

12:10 PM Screening

2:15 PM BREAK

2:35 PM - 3:10 PM

SECTION VI: Scaling Up or Translating Programs to Interrupt the Contagion of Violence

Following the film, a panel of speakers will share experiences with interruption in various settings, from the community to health care settings to elsewhere. Speakers will offer thoughts on how violence can be interrupted, and how programs using the interruption mechanism can be scaled up or translated.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13489.
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Facilitators:
BRIAN FLYNN, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine
CHARLOTTE WATTS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2:35 PM Overview
CHARLOTTE WATTS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2:40 PM Panel

The Experience of Interruption
TIO HARDIMAN, CeaseFire Illinois

School-Based Violence and Interruption
PATRICK BURTON, Center for Justice and Crime Prevention, South Africa

Hospitals and Interruption
JOHN A. RICH, Drexel University, Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice

Interrupting Family Violence
VALERIE MAHOLMES, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development

3:10 PM Facilitated Panel Discussion

3:30 PM Moderated Q&A

4:00 PM ADJOURN DAY 2

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13489.
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The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the recognition that violence is preventable. Part of this shift has occurred in thinking about why violence occurs, and where intervention points might lie. In exploring the occurrence of violence, researchers have recognized the tendency for violent acts to cluster, to spread from place to place, and to mutate from one type to another. Furthermore, violent acts are often preceded or followed by other violent acts.

In the field of public health, such a process has also been seen in the infectious disease model, in which an agent or vector initiates a specific biological pathway leading to symptoms of disease and infectivity. The agent transmits from individual to individual, and levels of the disease in the population above the baseline constitute an epidemic. Although violence does not have a readily observable biological agent as an initiator, it can follow similar epidemiological pathways.

On April 30-May 1, 2012, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Global Violence Prevention convened a workshop to explore the contagious nature of violence. Part of the Forum's mandate is to engage in multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores crosscutting, evidence-based approaches to violence prevention, and the Forum has convened four workshops to this point exploring various elements of violence prevention. The workshops are designed to examine such approaches from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels of society. In particular, the workshop on the contagion of violence focused on exploring the epidemiology of the contagion, describing possible processes and mechanisms by which violence is transmitted, examining how contextual factors mitigate or exacerbate the issue. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary covers the major topics that arose during the 2-day workshop. It is organized by important elements of the infectious disease model so as to present the contagion of violence in a larger context and in a more compelling and comprehensive way.

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