The End of Violence: A Prescription for a Peaceful Society
Dr. Gary Slutkin
Apr 2026 · Hachette Audio · Narrated by George Newbern
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A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases.
“Leads us down an entirely new path to a world beyond violence” —Nicholas Kristoff
Violence is often described as a social issue, a moral failing, or a universal human instinct. But in fact, argues epidemiologist and violence prevention expert Dr. Gary Slutkin, violence is disease, infecting people and societies via the same process as any other epidemic. When a shooting occurs in a school, a political figure is assassinated, or an authoritarian leader invades a sovereign nation, it's not just a tragic event—it's an outbreak.
As an infectious disease physician, Slutkin helped end the epidemics of cholera, tuberculosis, and AIDS in Africa and Asia with the World Health Organization. This led him to uncover the science of how violence enters our brains, replicates, and gets transmitted from one person to another.
In The End of Violence, Dr. Slutkin offers a proven alternative to the failed strategies of deterrence and incarceration: a time-tested public health approach that reduces exposure, interrupts transmission, and prevents the disease from spreading.
Using this playbook, Dr. Slutkin’s organization, Cure Violence Global, has dramatically reduced or eliminated violence in some of the deadliest neighborhoods in Chicago, Baltimore, New York City, Los Angeles, and across central America. Similar methods have been used to end civil wars, avert a nuclear conflict, and curtail gender-based violence around the world.
From mass shootings, to state tyranny, to genocide and war, it’s all the same disease—and it also requires the same cure. We already have the tools we need to protect ourselves, heal our communities, and end all forms of violence. It’s time to use them.
“Leads us down an entirely new path to a world beyond violence” —Nicholas Kristoff
Violence is often described as a social issue, a moral failing, or a universal human instinct. But in fact, argues epidemiologist and violence prevention expert Dr. Gary Slutkin, violence is disease, infecting people and societies via the same process as any other epidemic. When a shooting occurs in a school, a political figure is assassinated, or an authoritarian leader invades a sovereign nation, it's not just a tragic event—it's an outbreak.
As an infectious disease physician, Slutkin helped end the epidemics of cholera, tuberculosis, and AIDS in Africa and Asia with the World Health Organization. This led him to uncover the science of how violence enters our brains, replicates, and gets transmitted from one person to another.
In The End of Violence, Dr. Slutkin offers a proven alternative to the failed strategies of deterrence and incarceration: a time-tested public health approach that reduces exposure, interrupts transmission, and prevents the disease from spreading.
Using this playbook, Dr. Slutkin’s organization, Cure Violence Global, has dramatically reduced or eliminated violence in some of the deadliest neighborhoods in Chicago, Baltimore, New York City, Los Angeles, and across central America. Similar methods have been used to end civil wars, avert a nuclear conflict, and curtail gender-based violence around the world.
From mass shootings, to state tyranny, to genocide and war, it’s all the same disease—and it also requires the same cure. We already have the tools we need to protect ourselves, heal our communities, and end all forms of violence. It’s time to use them.
A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases.
“Leads us down an entirely new path to a world beyond violence” —Nicholas Kristoff
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Dr. Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist and the CEO of Cure Violence an innovator in violence prevention. As Director of Intervention at the World Health Organization, Dr. Slutkin previously led efforts to combat epidemics of tuberculosis, cholera, and AIDS in over 25 countries. In 2000, Dr. Slutkin founded Cure Violence Global, which has applied epidemiological methods to stop the spread of violence in some of the most violent neighborhoods in the US. Dr. Slutkin has presented his solution-oriented understanding of the violence epidemic to the World Bank, the State Department, the World Health Organization, the Institute of Medicine, MIT, SaxeLab, Harvard Law School, and the National Intelligence Council.
Dr. Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist and the CEO of Cure Violence an innovator in violence prevention. As Director of Intervention at the World Health Organization, Dr. Slutkin previously led efforts to combat epidemics of tuberculosis, cholera, and AIDS in over 25 countries. In 200...
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