The book interrogates how power shapes the understanding of violence and influences how prevention outcomes are measured. Aimed at reform-minded policymakers, practitioners, funders, and advocates, it offers a practical foundation for collaborative, prevention-focused action and policy innovation.

Through a multidimensional lens, the authors address forms of violence including sexual and gender-based violence, racial and ethnic violence, gang and group-based violence, state-perpetrated violence, political violence, and violence against migrants.

It examines the complex intersections of structural and acute violence in cities and highlights locally driven solutions drawn from the fields of urban violence prevention, atrocity prevention, and peacebuilding.

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Thank you to all who participated in and contributed to these events!

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🎬 Special screening and discussion of "Bombshell", a documentary that uncovers the fight to control the narrative around the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the role of the press in bringing facts to light.

🔍 Hands-on training in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), a game-changing tool for those who report on nuclear weapons issues, presented by Open Nuclear Network.

🔬 Reporting trip to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s Nuclear Safeguards Clean Lab in Seibersdorf, outside Austria, where a global team of scientists tests samples for evidence of bomb-making activities. @iaeaorg.bsky.social

🎙️ IPI conference panel, "Atomic Secrets: Nuclear Weapons Reporting Beyond the Headlines", featuring journalists who have made this beat their own.

Journalists from around the globe participated in a series of activities to deepen their understanding of nuclear weapons issues and build reporting skills on this under-covered topic. @globalfreemedia.bsky.social

The Stanley Center Journalism and Media Program's Developing Story Project, in collaboration with Atomic Reporters, hosted a group of journalists for activities at and alongside the International Press Institute (IPI)'s 75th annual IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival in Vienna, Austria.

Co-organized with Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (CRIES), @peaceinourcities.org, and the Violence, Inequality and Power (VIP) Lab at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. And with thanks to our publisher at Palgrave Macmillan.

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Thank you to everyone who attended the event! A special thank you to our speakers: Michal Braier, Shukria Dellawar, Kate Ferguson, Rachel Locke, Rose Mbone, Kelsey Paul Shantz, Jai-Ayla Sutherland, and Serena Wiebe.

🌱 Contributors shared experiences of transforming trauma into a lifetime of helping others heal and finding solutions to identity-based mass violence.

💡 The edited volume, "Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered", provides hope by putting forward new approaches to violence prevention.

🔍 We need to look closer at whose data counts as evidence; why some are protected and others marginalized; how generations of indignity calcify divisions; and how media and narratives focus our attention on some to the exclusion of others.

⚠️ There is a systemic and widespread belief that some people are more deserving of violence because of how perpetrators perceive the identities of their victims.

The event brought together practitioners, policymakers, police commissioners, mayors, violence-reduction experts and thought leaders to examine how leadership at city, regional, and national levels can directly address the core drivers of identity-based mass violence in cities.

Key takeaways:

CCMP offers people in low- and middle-income countries—who bear the brunt of climate change despite contributing relatively little to global emissions—firsthand reporting by journalists from their own countries at the COP.

Co-organized w/ @earthjournalism.bsky.social.

Follow the reporting from the CCMP fellows during #COP30, with select stories listed here:

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