Land/Region: USA
Organisation: Cure Violence
Arbeitsfeld: städtische Gewalt
Gary Slutkin is eradicating and preventing gun violence in the most dangerous of urban areas through a unique model in which he treats violence as an infectious disease.
His CeaseFire model, informed by over a decade of battling infectious diseases in Africa and honed by years of careful implementation in North America is significantly reducing the incidence of gun violence in the U.S. and also spreading internationally.
