The phrase 'reduction of violence' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase any time you are discussing a decrease in violence. For example, "The local government has implemented several programs to facilitate a reduction of violence in the city."
How the reduction of violence would be measured, however, remained unclear.
The central objective should be the reduction of violence and the establishment of the rule of law.
Certainly, it has helped in the sharp reduction of violence, which won Mr Uribe a second term from grateful voters.
While the Sons of Iraq movement has been a leading contributor toward the reduction of violence against American troops, it remains highly fragile.
Some participants also reported teaching the new alternative parenting techniques to neighbours, thereby contributing to the reduction of violence in the wider community.
"But I have decided after consulting with my colleagues to accept the plan and see whether it can lead to a reduction of violence".
The statistics about reductions of violence in Iraq are irrefutable; the country's qualitative experience of loss and partial recovery is perhaps more elusive.
However, he added, "every case against a gun trafficker contributes to the reduction of gun violence".
"We are hopeful that this will have a measurable effect in a further reduction of gun violence and murder," he said.
It seemed to me that only adoption of a substitute type of sanction and struggle... could possibly lead to a major reduction of political violence".
But Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel said that a three-way summit meeting was "not close," and that there could be no resumption of talks without a significant reduction of Palestinian violence.
