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Identifying the Role of Violence and Its Prevention in the Post-2015 Global Agenda: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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... . To further illuminate the role of violence and its prevention in the post-2015 global agenda, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Prevention convened a 2-day meeting to explore the ways in which violence prevention efforts fit into the global agenda and to begin to identify the ways in which the U.S.
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... government in supporting the SDGs, and Molly Elgin-Cossart of the Center for American Progress reviewed the role of national governments in planning for sustainable development. The Violence Prevention Agenda Within the Sustainable Development Goals The SDGs are important, Mercy said, because the goals will promote social mobilization, provide an opportunity to use peer pressure to move the goals forward, spur the development of networks of expertise and practice, and mobilize diverse stakeholders to work together for a common purpose.
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... Ward reported that several individual participants in the community-based violence interest group said that community violence can be seen within the spectrum of violence, which ranges from disorganized sporadic incidents to highly organized violence. She said that the development arena needs to address community violence as a critical part of the SDGs; for example, efforts under Goal 5, which addresses violence against women and girls, will affect SDGs addressing education and economics, which in turn will address the safety of the communities.
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... According to Dickerson, individual members of the VAW group stressed that addressing mental health is critical to building and reinforcing resiliency and that the lack of specific inclusion of mental health in the SDGs needs to be met by finding opportunities to address mental health across Goals and targets. She reported that the group also discussed the impact of branding and language and the idea of using different language that could resonate across cultures and communities; for example, referring to Goal 5, words such as "gender equity" and "empowerment" may translate better as "harmony" or "building resiliency to address equality and empowerment." Finally, Dickerson reported that some group members spoke about how long-term commitment requires including those invested in individual programs and those committed to violence prevention; one example is that the federal interagency working group looks at VAW by bringing together diverse stakeholders and cultivating partnerships to help expand ideas and resources for creating prevention strategies.
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... , which places seizures and tracing on the international agenda; supports efforts to trace weapons used in crimes, acts of terror, and in armed conflict; and will stimulate good practices in international tracing. De Martino stressed that partnerships at the regional and global level are needed to support national efforts, noting the German government has called for a global partnership on small arms and light weapons that could focus on such things as indicators, analysis, good practices, resources, and capacity building.
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... The kNOw Violence Approach: Measuring and Addressing Community Violence Among Youth Abt explained how the kNOw violence initiative works to address the prevention of violence against children in the home, at school, and in the community. It is a learning-based advocacy initiative that leverages existing information on effective policies, practices, and programs to prevent childhood violence with the goal of stimulating global, prioritized, and coordinated action to end violence.
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... the importance of connecting evidence research to violence prevention, Andrew Morrison of the Inter-American Development Bank provided an overview of big challenges to attaining the SDGs, and Joanna Rubinstein of the World Childhood Foundation USA discussed the post-2015 agenda from the practice perspective. Using the Shiffman Framework to Advance the Violence Prevention Agenda on the Global Stage Greenwood-Basken reviewed the Shiffman Framework as a means of addressing how social movements become a political priority.
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... . She further explained that actor power includes guiding institutions, leadership, civil society mobilization, and policy community cohesion; ideas include an internal and external frame of reference, commonly rooted in ethics with a supporting economic argument; political contexts include the global governance structure and the policy window; and issue characteristics require credible indicators and effective interventions, which are often challenged by data collection, the complexity of problems, and reaching consensus for a specific solution.
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... Rubinstein said that she heard general agreement in the workshop that all goals should be viewed as relevant and, further, that a very important communication message is that the SDGs are all interdependent. Exploring Both What We Have Accomplished Thus Far and Where We Go from Here The closing plenary provided an opportunity for participants to reflect on the successes and challenges of the MDGs as a way of identifying promising evidence-based policies and interventions, recognizing effective collaborations and partnerships, and discerning the appropriate role of government, industry, multilaterals, NGOs, and other institutions in advancing the sustainable development agenda with a focus on violence prevention.
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... Lauren Shern, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, served as the review coordinator. SPONSORS: This workshop was partially supported by Administration for Community Living; Anheuser-Busch InBev; Archstone; Avon Foundation; Becton, Dickinson and Company; Catholic Health Initiatives; Felix Foundation; Insituto Nacional para la Evaluación de la Educación; JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.


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