This Plan of Action for the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention aims to unify the efforts of the main actors in international violence prevention and identify a small set of priorities for the field, by presenting six national level goals towards which efforts can be directed. The first two goals aim to

• prioritize violence prevention within the global public health agenda;
• the next three aim to build strong foundations for on-going violence prevention efforts;
• the last aims to promote the implementation of evidence-informed violence prevention strategies on parenting, life-skills, social norms, alcohol, the risks of firearm-related deaths and injuries, and services for victims.

The objective of the Campaign in the coming years will be to support the achievement of these goals in countries around the world.

Increase the priority of evidence-informed violence prevention as a global public health and development issue

1. Intensify communication and advocacy;

2. Enhance the integration of violence prevention into major global agendas;

Build the foundations for violence prevention

3. Develop and strengthen national action plans;

4. Increase individual and institutional capacity for violence prevention and the delivery of services for victims and perpetrators;

5. Strengthen data collection and research on violence;

Implement violence prevention strategies

6. Implement evidence-informed violence prevention strategies, including:

(i) Parenting support: promote access to evidence-informed parenting support strategies and resources for high-risk parents;

(ii) Life skills training: promote access to evidence-informed life- and social skills training strategies for high-risk children and adolescents; (iii) Norms: change social and cultural norms that are supportive of violence and strengthen non-violent norms;

(iv) Alcohol: reduce access to and harmful use of alcohol;

(v) Firearms: implement evidence-informed measures to reduce the risks of firearm- related deaths and injuries;

(vi) Services: promote access to services and resources aimed at mitigating the consequences of violence and reducing its re-occurrence for victims and perpetrators.

The target audience for this plan of action is the global violence prevention community, including United Nations (UN) Member States, UN agencies, official development assistance agencies, philanthropic foundations, non-governmental organizations and researchers. For violence prevention to have a substantial impact at national and local levels requires that, in addition to their own objectives, violence prevention stakeholders support efforts to achieve a few carefully selected goals that are owned by violence prevention stakeholders everywhere.

Participants

Founding participants are marked with an asterisk (*).

International participants

• Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA)
• Center for Global Nonkilling (CGNK)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention *
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
• Education Development Center (EDC)
• Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS
• Igarapé Institute
• Inter-American Coalition for the Prevention of Violence (IACPV)
• International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
• International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
• Open Society Foundations’ Crime and Violence Prevention Initiative
• Partners for Prevention (P4P)
• Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT)
• Small Arms Survey and Geneva Declaration
• Society for Prevention Research (SPR)
• Together for Girls
• UBS Optimus Foundation
• United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations Development Programme
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• United Nations‘ Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children
• World Bank: Conflict, Crime and Violence Team

Belgium

• Garance ASBL
• Ministry of Health *

Canada

• Child Welfare League of Canada
• Preventing violence across the lifespan research network (PreVAiL)
• Prevention of Violence Canada
• Public Health Agency of Canada, Family Violence Initiative*

Germany

• German Congress on Crime Prevention & Annual International Forum on Crime Prevention
• Hesse Department of Social Welfare *
• Institute of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf

Jamaica

• Ministry of Health *

Norway

• Norwegian Directorate of Health

Philippines

• Child Protection Unit, University of the Philippines

South Africa

• Medical Research Council of South Africa
• Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVI)

United Kingdom

• Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University *
• Eighteen and Under, Violence is Preventable
• The Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit – East London National Health Service
• Health Protection Agency North West *
• Medics against Violence
• Scottish Violence Reduction Unit
• St Andrews University School of Medicine
• Violent Crime Task Group, Cardiff Community Safety Partnership
• White Ribbon Campaign
• Worldwide Alternative to Violence (WAVE)

United States

• Community Network Coalition Against Violence (CNCAV)
• Prevention Institute
• The California Wellness Foundation *
• Yale University’s Violence and Health Group