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Additional information and resources from the meeting can be found on the Forum's webpage.2 AN OVERVIEW OF LETHAL VIOLENCE FROM THE 2014 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S GLOBAL STATUS REPORTS Speaker James Mercy of CDC provided an overview of the global burden of the lethal means of violence and their use in both homicides and suicides by presenting snapshots of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) two most recent global status reports highlighting these issues: Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative and the Global Status Report on Violence Prevention.
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And while Berman's focus in restricting access to lethal means was limited to suicide prevention, Mercy lauded efforts to reduce access to lethal means in the context of both suicide and homicide. Mercy further explained that the context of lethal violence in the United States is particularly affected by the level of access to firearms -- a highly lethal means of violence.
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Stephen Teret of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health discussed smart gun technology and the potential promise it shows in preventing unintended injury and death. And lastly, Zainab Al-Suwaij of the American Islamic Congress discussed the manner in which social media can be a tool to inflame violence as well as a potential point of intervention and prevention in the face of violence.
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Included in the panel were former ambassador Lino Gutierrez; Andres Villaveces of the World Bank; and finally, Catholic priest and policy analyst for the Africa Faith and Justice Network, Barthelemy Bazemo. Diplomatic Approaches to Violence Prevention.
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One such example includes the transnational collaboration of 22 countries in the region who are working to collect incountry data to share for the development of best practices and production of standardized definitions and approaches to violence and violence prevention. Additionally, many efforts are being made to analyze the physical and spatial environment to develop effective interventions to reduce lethal violence and firearms violence.
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The ultimate result could be an extension of the restraining order or the return of the firearms. The inspiration for this law, Frattaroli explained, came from evidence showing that focusing on the mentally ill population is not an effective strategy in the reduction of lethal violence, because predicting who among a population of mental health patients will ultimately commit a violent act is nearly impossible.6 Instead, the group behind the law recommended focusing on dangerous behaviors and drew from the success of the nationally accepted domestic violence restraining orders -- which have consistently reduced the burden of both lethal and nonlethal instances of intimate partner violence -- and promising state-level programs that demonstrate proof of concept for the California law wherein law enforcement officials are permitted to remove firearms from an individual they encounter who is acting in a manner they perceive to be dangerous.
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Arturo Cervantes-Trejo of the National Institute for Educational Evaluation suggested that international doctrines outlining human rights and the rights of children could provide an excellent roadmap for what a community should provide for its residents and from what it should protect them. Brigid McCaw of Kaiser Permanente also discussed the important role of clinicians in identifying at-risk individuals and intervening when necessary so as to prevent incidences of lethal violence.
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Hargarten U.S. Agency for International University of Southern California Development Frances Henry Evelyn Tomaszewski F Felix Foundation National Association of Social Workers Christine Jaworsky Elizabeth Ward Avon Foundation for Women Violence Prevention Alliance, Jamaica Valerie Maholmes Lisa Witter National Institutes of Health Witer Ventures Brigid McCaw Caira Woods Kaiser Permanente U.S.
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