Canaries in the coal mine: Interpersonal violence, gang violence, and violent extremism through a public health prevention lens

@article{Eisenman2017CanariesIT,
  title={Canaries in the coal mine: Interpersonal violence, gang violence, and violent extremism through a public health prevention lens},
  author={David P. Eisenman and Louise Flavahan},
  journal={International Review of Psychiatry},
  year={2017},
  volume={29},
  pages={341 - 349}
}
Abstract This paper asks what programmes and policies for preventing violent extremism (also called ‘countering violent extremism’, or CVE) can learn from the public health violence prevention field. The general answer is that addressing violent extremism within the wider domain of public health violence prevention connects the effort to a relevant field of research, evidence-based policy and programming, and a broader population reach. This answer is reached by examining conceptual alignments… 
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