The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic by Slutkin, Gary
The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic by Slutkin, Gary

The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic

A bold new approach for eliminating the world's most dangerous epidemic--using the same epidemic control playbook that...
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Author: Gary Slutkin
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The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic by Slutkin, Gary

The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic

$89.99 $47.37
The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic by Slutkin, Gary

The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic

$89.99 $47.37
Author: Gary Slutkin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A bold new approach for eliminating the world's most dangerous epidemic--using the same epidemic control playbook that rid the world of other contagious diseases.

Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth is far more hopeful: violence is a disease that can be cured.

Here, epidemiologist and violence prevention specialist Dr. Gary Slutkin reclassifies violence as a a disease: one that enters the brain and infects people, communities, and countries via the same process as other epidemics. When shootings occur in a school or community, a political figure is assassinated, or an authoritarian leader directs violence in his nation's own cities, these are not just tragedies, but disease outbreaks that must be interrupted and contained.

As an epidemiologist, Dr. Slutkin led teams to end epidemics of cholera and tuberculosis, then HIV/ AIDS in Africa and Asia with the World Health Organization. Returning to the US, he began to discover the invisible science of violence--and how to contain it using the very same epidemic control methods.

The End of Violence offers a time-tested roadmap for recovery: the playbook that has been used to dramatically reduce or eliminate violence in many of the most dangerous neighborhoods throughout the US and Latin America and has been successfully adapted to curtail political violence, election violence, and gender-based violence in countries around the world.

Domestic violence, mass shootings, state tyranny, and war are all syndromes of the exact same disease, all requiring the same interventions. We already have the tools to protect ourselves, heal our communities, and end violence in our lifetime.

It is now up to us to use them


Author: Gary Slutkin
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 04/21/2026
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780316520119


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2026

About the Author

GARY SLUTKIN, MD is a physician and epidemiologist, widely recognized for pioneering the epidemic control approach to violence. Formerly the director of interventions at the World Health Organization, Dr. Slutkin guided efforts to combat epidemics of tuberculosis, cholera, and AIDS in over twenty countries in Africa and Asia. Returning to the US in 2000, he founded and led Cure Violence Global to adapt these methods to control and reduce violence in communities across the US and around the world. Dr. Slutkin has presented the science and results of treating violence as an epidemic disease to the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the State Department, Harvard Law School, the Institute of Medicine, MIT, the United States Congress, and the National Intelligence Council. The success of his approach has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, CNN, BBC, and in the award-winning film The Interrupters.


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