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1 February 2021
Bianco, Calabria, Italy
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1500-3000 Words
Italy's first tuition-free cooking school gives unemployed young people in the economically challenged region of Calabria a career path – and a culturally resonant alternative to working for the region's organized cri...
25 January 2021
Mexico
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800-1500 Words
The Cartel Project formed an international team of journalists that produced a five-part series on the murder of Mexican journalist Regina Martinez. The series also explored the subjects that Martinez's killers attemp...
4 January 2021
Thailand
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1500-3000 Words
Wat Arun Rajvaram Community Learning Centre, founded on Buddhist precepts by a former monk, has trained more than 250 Thai young women for work as nurse assistants, jobs aimed at keeping them out of the illicit sex tr...
14 December 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The House of Umoja in West Philadelphia, created in the late 1960s in response to high rates of gang violence, succeeded in helping thousands of young men through a residential treatment program, mediating disputes pe...
23 June 2020
Cambodia
Radio
Over 15 Minutes
Three examples of new science behind successful efforts to prevent or punish the poaching of protected wildlife starts with PAWS: Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security, an artificial intelligence tool that helped...
16 June 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Under 800 Words
When protests against police violence turned into looting and anti-Black violence in some Latinx neighborhoods, violence interrupters from groups such as UCAN, EnLace, and Chicago CRED brokered a peace agreement that ...
27 April 2020
Texas, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Specialty dockets are used in some states to provide extensive follow-up and supervision to help juveniles end gang affiliations. The enhanced supervision usually includes a curfew, frequent unannounced home visits, r...
17 December 2019
United States
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800-1500 Words
The passage of the 2018 Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act was meant to hold accountable the online platforms where sex trafficking and sex work took place, but a year into its existence, it has shown negative, unintend...
17 December 2019
Mexico
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1500-3000 Words
A nearly two-year investigation of Mexicans who had gone missing, and presumably murdered, produced a series of stories based on the database of at least 2,000 graves across Mexico. A group of independent reporters an...
11 September 2019
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Over 3000 Words
With support for a New York-based grant program, Buffalo has been trying various evidence-based approaches to decrease violence, especially gun violence, in the city. The grant program, Gun Involved Violence Eliminati...
3 September 2019
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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A group in Chicago called Good Kids, Mad City is made up of youth who have been affected by gun violence. They offer support and accountability to each other and use the group as a way to cope with the daily violence ...
16 April 2019
El Salvador
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Under 800 Words
Giving guns a nonviolent afterlife can also increase economic opportunity for struggling communities. In El Salvador, IM Swedish Development Partner, a nongovernmental organization, is addressing the issue of guns and...
30 March 2019
Rivera Hernandez, Honduras
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Residents of Rivera Hernandez, Honduras are trying to improve their community in a district that’s under gang control. One such effort is a vocational school to train children and adults in electricity and solar energ...
26 March 2019
Ecuador
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1500-3000 Words
When faced with a rise in gang violence, Ecuador tried an approach that was in complete opposition to "zero tolerance," the methodology America has been attempting to use to tackle the problem. Rather than target gang...
1 March 2019
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
In Tennessee, reducing gun violence means intercepting it at the earliest level possible. By creating prevention programs for the state’s young population, they’re able to not only decrease rates of violence, but decr...
1 March 2019
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Chattanooga’s Violence Reduction Initiatives used a focused deterrence strategy to reduce crime. The initiative has led to a decrease in gang-involved homicides and shootings, working with individuals on probation to ...
1 March 2019
United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
Small and large cities around the United States have their own ways of deterring gun violence, from heavier police presences, to community engagement efforts, to public health approaches. An ongoing and similar challe...
12 January 2019
Malawi
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800-1500 Words
The illegal wildlife trade is consistently a big problem across Africa. To help tackle the issue of poachers, a company called Retarius uses counter-terrorist operations experience by training and mentoring locals inv...
9 November 2018
Sacramento, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Sacramento is implementing a program developed in 2011 in Richmond, Calif., that showed success curtailing gun violence among young men caught up in gangs or potential shootings. They get numerous social services and ...
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Joseph Darius Jaafari
24 August 2018
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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800-1500 Words
Teens exposed to gang violence in Chicago have gained guidance from veterans. The mentorship program, operated through the YMCA, has helped young people connect with adults who can relate to their experiences.
14 July 2018
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A nonprofit in Omaha focuses on hospitals for its gang intervention work, making contact with gang members or potential gang members who have been injured through violence and may be ready to make a change in their li...
8 June 2018
San Salvador, El Salvador
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Under 800 Words
In El Salvador a nonprofit partners with employers to find jobs for gang members who want a way out of that life. It's a key component to helping people escape gang violence, although companies must work with churches...
27 April 2018
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Gang violence in Chicago is not uncommon, but one organization is working to change what happens in the aftermath of funerals. Dubbed a public health program, Cure Violence enlists the help of community members to att...
24 April 2018
Nairobi, Kenya
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800-1500 Words
In Kenya, prisons are rampant with violence, an overcrowded and harsh environment for people as they serve their sentences. To combat gang violence and heightened tensions between prisoners and guards, Kenya's largest...
28 February 2018
Glasgow, Scotland
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1500-3000 Words
Glasgow used to be called the murder capital of Western Europe until officials decided to tackle violent crime with a public health focus, using tactics similar to those used to control epidemics. A carrot and stick a...
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