Violence Prevention Alliance: Global Campaign for Violence Prevention

These policy documents have been developed to guide VPA participation and activities around the world. Representatives from founding and other highly active VPA participant organizations have drafted, commented on, and approved these documents as essential for the functioning of VPA and reflecting the consensus reached between participant organizations.

- Violence prevention: the evidence 

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- Violence prevetion: the overview

- Preventing violence through the development of safe, stable and nurturing relationships between children and their parents and caregivers

- Preventing violence by developing life skills 
in children and adolescents

- Guns, knives and pesticides: 
reducing access to lethal means

- Promoting gender equality 
to prevent violence against women

Changing cultural and social norms 
that support violence

- Reducing violence through 
victim identification, care and support programmes

Violence Prevention Evidence Base and Resources
This website provides an evidence-based resource for policy makers, practitioners, and others working to prevent violence. It includes a searchable data base of abstracts from published studies that measure the effectiveness of interventions to prevent child abuse, elder abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual violence and youth violence; key publications and resources on violence and its prevention; news and updates from the field of violence prevention; and links to relevant organizations.