Preventing and reducing armed violence - What works?
Background paper - Oslo Conference on Armed Violence
UNDP | 2010
Topic: Friedensförderung und EZ
Armed violence creates a major social and public health burden throughout the world, has a substantial
impact on the health of people everywhere and severely hampers social and economic development. As
a result, there is growing international momentum to place armed violence prevention and reduction in
development agendas. Much international work is already underway to achieve this aim.
In order to help deliver armed violence prevention and reduction, policy and decision-makers need
evidence of effective practice. This briefing paper brings together promising and emerging evidence
of what works to prevent interpersonal armed violence (through firearms), primarily in non-conflict
situations. The paper provides an overview of the scale of armed violence, its impacts and the risk factors
associated with it. It examines both direct approaches to preventing and reducing armed violence, and
indirect approaches that do not address armed violence as their primary aim, but target risk factors for
violence. Most scientific evidence currently comes from developed countries which generally have greater
capacity and resources for designing, implementing and reporting the results of rigorous evaluations.
However, the evidence-base from low- and middle-income countries is increasing, and this paper also
provides examples of emerging evidence from around the world.
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