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AN ESTIMATED 526,000 PEOPLE DIE VIOLENTLY EVERY YEAR ...... COUNTLESS MORE BEAR THE PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICALSCARS OF VIOLENCE.

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

LEVELS OF LETHAL VIOLENCE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 1986-2009

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

HOW VIOLENCE DISRUPTS DEVELOPMENT

The gap in poverty is widening between countries affected by violence and others.

Source: World Bank, World Development Report 2011

GLOBAL PATTERNS IN LETHAL VIOLENCE

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

THE LINES BETWEEN DIFFERENT FORMS OF VIOLENCE – POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND INTER-PERSONAL – ARE INCREASINGLY BLURRED.

ARMED ACTORS MAY PERPETRATE DIFFERENT FORMS OF VIOLENCE SIMULTANEOUSLY.

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO LETHAL VIOLENCE

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

THESE 14 COUNTRIES ARE HOME TO ONLY 4.6 PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION..

58 COUNTRIES HAVE VIOLENT DEATH RATES GREATER THAN 10 PER 100,000. .

14 COUNTRIES HAVE VIOLENT DEATH RATES GREATER THAN 30 PER 100,000.

THESE 14 COUNTRIES ARE HOME TO ONLY 4.6 PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION…

…BUT ACCOUNT FOR ONE-QUARTER OF THE WORLD’S VIOLENT DEATHS.

AVERAGE ANNUAL DEATHS RATES PER 100,0002004-2009

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

COUNTRIES WITH AVERAGE ANNUAL VIOLENT DEATH RATES OF MORE THAN 30 PER 100,000 POPULATION 2004–09

MOST OF THE STATES WORST AFFECTED BY ARMED VIOLENCE ARE NOT AT WAR.

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

DISAGGREGATING THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF LETHAL VIOLENCE

NINE OUT OF TEN VIOLENT DEATHS OCCUR IN NON-CONFLICT AREAS.

VIOLENCE IS UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED WITHIN − AS WELL AS BETWEEN − STATES.

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

ORGANIZED CRIME-RELATED HOMICIDE RATESMEXICO

2007200820092010

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LETHAL VIOLENCE VARY FROM REGION TO REGION.

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

HOMICIDE CONTEXT BY GEOGRAPHIC REGION

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

PROPORTION OF HOMICIDES COMMITTED WITH FIREARMS2009 OR LATEST AVAILABLE YEAR

Source: UNODC calculations

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

PROPORTION OF HOMICIDES COMMITTED WITH FIREARMS AND CASES SOLVED

Source: UNODC calculations

66,000 WOMEN ARE VIOLENTLY KILLED EACH YEAR.

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

NUMBER OF FEMICIDE VICTIMS FOR EVERY 100 MALE HOMICIDE VICTIMS IN 83 COUNTRIES2004-09

ARMED VIOLENCE HINDERS DEVELOPMENT.

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

GREATER INEQUALITY; HIGHER LEVELS OF VIOLENCE

Source: UNODC calculations

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

WEAK RULE OF LAW IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER LEVELS OF VIOLENCE2009 OR LATEST AVAILABLE YEAR

Source: UNODC calculations

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO PREVENT AND REDUCE ARMED VIOLENCE EXIST.

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011

CATEGORIZING ACTIVITIES TO PREVENT AND REDUCE ARMED VIOLENCE

Source: OECD 2011