A simple and practical way to start impacting armed violence is to try to stem the flow of illegal guns.
While armed violence is at an ebb tide along the Karen border, a once-minor warlord is reconstructing himself as an effective demagogue.
The critics presumably feared that the Arab observers would report that armed violence is no longer confined to the regime's forces, and the image of peaceful protests brutally suppressed by army and police is false.
In the most violent countries of all, such as Guatemala and El Salvador, armed violence is one of the top three factors keeping children out of school, says Francisco Benavides, regional education adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean at the UN children's agency Unicef.
Only 7percentt of negotiators at peace tables are female, meaning that the suffering of the majority of victims of armed violence is not represented.
Even in regions where armed violence is a relatively small problem (such as Western Europe), guns are often a considerable proportion of said small problem.
Often times within a country or sub-region, the "tools," "actors," "institutions" and "impacts" concerning armed violence are, in fact, quite similar.
In the sub-regions of the world where armed violence is ravishing communities and killing scores of people, whether in conflict or countries 'at peace', firearms are always protagonists.
The association between oil extraction and armed violence is well established, and it is classically considered one of the root causes of the resource curse.
ERBIL, 5 August 2014 – The reported deaths of 40 children from minority groups who were displaced from Sinjar city and district by armed violence are of extreme concern.
