Ending Violence with Dr Gary Slutkin
About this Event
Join the Canal Communities Violence Intervention Initiative in a moderated discussion with internationally regarded violence intervention expert Dr Gary Slutkin, as they aim to promote a public health understanding and response to violence in communities across Ireland. This is the second in a series of events seeking to build the understanding, relationships, and capacity needed to interrupt, contain, and eliminate violence in our communities, guided by the Canal Communities Community-Based Public Safety Strategy.
Dr Slutkin is the author of , a seminal text which uncovers the invisible logic of violence, challenges the idea that it is inevitable and shows us a concrete way to achieve a more peaceful world. The End of Violence will serve as the starting point for this moderated discussion, challenging and inspiring attendees to explore how the basic epidemic playbook can help to build healing and safety in our communities. The book will be available for purchase at the event, and can also be purchased at a range of online bookshops.
We will be joined at the event by Daamin Durden, another expert in violence intervention and community based public safety, who has building the infrastructure through which community-based public safety can be achieved in marginalised communities in the United State.
The event will be co-moderated by Senator Lynn Ruane, in her capacity as Chair of the Advisory Board to the Canal Communities Violence Intervention Initiative, and Paul Perth, Programme Manager of the Canal Communities Violence Intervention Initiative and James Bowes, Community Violence Intervention Worker.
Dr Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist, formerly with the World Health Organization (WHO), who is credited with demonstrating that violence, of all forms, behaves like a contagious disease and for proving that treating it with an epidemic control approach works.
Dr. Slutkin received his M.D. from the University of Chicago, further medical and infectious disease training at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and SF General Hospital, served as Director of Tuberculosis Control for San Francisco, and then moved to Somalia to guide efforts to reverse epidemics of tuberculosis and cholera, leaving when civil war threatened Somalia. He was then recruited by the WHO Global Programme on AIDS where he was assigned to guide the country-wide programs in Uganda, and 12 other countries at the epidemic epicenter in central and east Africa.
Returning to the U. S. after 15 years abroad, Dr Slutkin saw violence behaving the same as other epidemics and designed epidemic control methods, that achieved 40 - 70% drops in killings in U.S. cities, with over 30 communities that going to zero shootings or killings for 1 to three years, 70-90% drops in shootings or killings in communities in Honduras, Colombia and Mexico, reductions in cartel femicide in Latin America, political violence in the U.S., Pr*son violence in the U.K., election violence in Kenya, and in war zones in Iraq and Syria, and as part of a team to stop a potential nuclear war with North Korea.
Dr. Slutkin is now working on violence interruption in war and for Authoritarian Violence Disorder. His new book, “The End of Violence” teaches us the way violence works and how it is being reduced around the world, just when we need it most.
Daamin X Durden Served as Executive Director of the Newark Community Street Team from 2020 to March 2024. Bro Daamin is a Newark native committed to ending the cycle of violence and trauma in that city.
Brother Daamin is a Newark native committed to ending the cycle of violence and trauma in that city. He is part of the team that helps reduce Newark’s homicide rate to its lowest in 60 years. Daamin is a key member of The Community-Based Public Safety Collective, a nonprofit taking NCST’s trauma-informed, community-based violence prevention methods to 16 communities around the country.
Bro Daamin’s dedication to reducing violence stems from his own background. Raised by a single mother, he first showed leadership and organisational skills on Newark’s streets. His cousins remember him establishing the rules for every game before they started playing. As a young man, Daamin followed a path that ended in a life sentence for armed robbery. While incarcerated at Rahway State Pr*son, however, he was transformed through studying the course Self-Improvement: The Basis for Community Development. He also became a certified paralegal and Chapter President of the NAACP at Rahway
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