In Rio de Janeiro, a stray bullet kills or injures one person every seven hours.
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The Dera Sacha Sauda episode has several important questions, mostly related to the crisis of spirituality and modernity in India today.
Melbourne neurosurgeon Dr Michael Wong was stabbed in a hospital foyer in February, 2014. He recalls his attack with painful clarity and calls for better protection for hospital staff.
It matters who a person drinks with and where.
There is no basis in customary, conventional international law or domestic law for the spouse of a head of state to claim - as a right - some form of immunity when visiting a foreign state.
Two genocide and mass atrocity prevention scholars argue Trump’s response to the Charlottesville attack is a red flag.
It’s important to understand the nature and extent of children’s exposure to violence during general elections so they can be protected.
Universities have responded to the release of the Australian Human Rights Commission report into sexual assault and sexual harassment on campus with a ten-point plan.
A new report reveals that Australian universities are not as safe as they should be, and it’s time they adopted strategies to fix the problem.
Thousands marched in silence against racial violence after a riot left hundreds of blacks dead and thousands homeless. The demands of black people in 2017 remain the same as they did in 1917.
Ending violence is only a first step. Research from Colombian universities sheds light on the role of education in peace-building.
In one bloody week in June, 181 Rio residents were shot, including a baby in utero. It’s now impossible not to notice that city’s once-lauded favela “pacification” strategy has all but collapsed.
Research is revealing that both families who have experienced adolescent family violence and those working with them feel the criminal justice system is not an appropriate way to respond to it.
Musicians who learned how to play through a state-funded program called El Sistema are taking their instruments to the streets to protest the government.
Latin America’s murder rate is the highest in the world, accounting for one in every four homicides on the planet.
Even though males represent around half the population, they account for about two-thirds of Australian homicide victims.
Art helps the youth of Timor Leste express their resistance to legal and political authority in the country.
In a world where public avenues for violence are increasingly open to women, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman presents us with an ethical and feminist model of fighting femininity.
The figures have been taken out of context.
Over 70% of Ethiopia’s population is under 30 years of age. This can be converted to economic muscle if policies are introduced to tackle the high unemployment levels in the country.
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Professor of Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
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Professor of Sociology, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
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Emeritus Professor Monash University, Monash University