The field seeks to foster cross-communication across these various disciplines and pull together the existing knowledge to inform interventions, policy and research. Importantly, this framework considers the many settings and agencies across levels and sectors in any society that can play an important role in prevention. Defining violence is an important first step towards understanding and the development of violence prevention initiatives. However, violence is highly complex and context specific. In the real world, violence exists along a continuum with important reinforcing linkages between types of violence.
Violence is an affliction that threatens both local communities and the global community.
A public health policy for preventing violence. Health Affairs, Winter, 7-29. Violence prevention is . Effective violence prevention draws upon the best theory and practice of a variety of disciplines to shape a cohesive interdisciplinary approach across the lifecycle and from the individual to the community to the policymaker. Violence prevention involves both local communities and the global communities.