Prevention of War, Conflict and Armed Violence
Campaign Material and Research

Affiliate members around the world are actively working to reduce deaths and injuries from small arms on a global scale. IPPNW has prepared a resource section of materials that may be helpful. We encourage affiliate members to download and print the materials for regional and local use.

Note: * Indicates IPPNW affiliate or member contribution

Aiming for Prevention Campaign Materials

• Aiming for Prevention campaign logo - [ PDF horizontal version 42KB ]
• Aiming for Prevention campaign logo - [ PDF vertical version 43KB ]
• Medical Voices Against Violence flyer A4 - [ PDF vertical version 99KB ]
• One Bullet Story poster, 11"x17" - [ PDF English 267KB ]
• One Bullet Story poster, 11"x17" - [ PDF Spanish 265 KB ]
• One Bullet Story poster, 11"x17" - [ PDF French 265KB ]
• One Bullet Story brochure, 11"x15" (to fold into 11"x7.5" size) - [ PDF English only 364KB ]

Papers, Publications, Statements on Health and Armed Violence

Journal of Public Health Policy Special Section: Small Arms and Light Weapons in Africa - A Major Challenge to Public Health and Development

• Hugenberg F, Odhiambo Anjango W, Mwita A and Opondo D. Firearm Injuries in Nairobi, Kenya: Who Pays the Price? J Public Health Pol 28: 410-419; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200152. [PDF]
• John, I, Mohammed, A, Pinto, AD, and Nkanta, C. Gun Violence in Nigeria: A Focus on Ethno-Religious Conflict in Kano. J Public Health Pol 28: 420-431; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200155. [PDF]
• Marsh, N. Taming the Tools of Violence, Journal of Public Health Policy 28:401-409; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200153. [PDF]
• Valenti, M, Ormhaug, C, Mtonga, R. and Loretz, J. Armed Violence: A Health Problem, a Public Health Approach, Journal of Public Health Pol 28: 389-400; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200150. [PDF]
• Zavala DE, Bokongo S, John IA, Mpanga SI, Mtonga RE , Mohammed AZ, Odhiambo W and Olupot-Olupot P. A Multinational Injury Surveillance System Pilot Project in Africa. J Public Health Pol 28: 432-441; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200154. [PDF]

Special Section on the prevention of injuries caused by violence in Vol.24, No. 4 (2008), Medicine, Conflict and Survival. Abstracts are available online and full papers can be obtained by contacting the lead author.

• John IA, Mohammed AZ, Lawoko S, Nkanta CA, Frank-Briggs A, Nwadiaro HC, Tuko M, Zavala DE, Kolo ES, Ramalan MA, Bassey DE, Didi E. Implementing a hopital based injury surveillance system: a case study in Nigeria. Medicine, Conflict and Survival 2008; 24(4):273-279. [LINK]
• Malhotra S. Relevance and application of TEACH-VIP: perspective from a developing nation - India. Medicine, Conflict and Survival 2008; 24(4):296-305. [LINK]
• Mtonga RE, Zavala DE. Implementing a hopital based injury surveillance system in Zambia: a preliminary report. Medicine, Conflict and Survival 2008; 24(4):280-284. [LINK]
• Pinto AD. Engaging health professionals in advocacy against gun violence. Medicine, Conflict and Survival 2008; 24(4):285-295. [LINK]
• Zavala DE, Bokongo S, John IA, Senoga IM, Mtonga RE, Mohammed AZ, Odhiambo W, Olupot-Olupot P. Implementing a hospital based injury surveillance system in Africa: lessons learned. Medicine, Conflict and Survival 2008; 24(4):260-272 [LINK]

Journals

• Injury Prevention – An international peer review journal, offers the best in science, policy, and public health practice to reduce the burden of injury in all age groups around the worldinformational resource linked with the British Medical Journal.
• Medicine, Conflict and Survival – the official journal of IPPNW, MC&S is an international journal for all those interested in health aspects of violence and human rights.

Books, Papers, Publications (brief bibliography)

• Alleyne, G. A. O. "Preventing Violence: A Commitment by the Organization." Pan-American Journal of Public Health 4, no. 4/5 (1999): ii.
• * Arya, N, "Confronting the small arms pandemic" Editorial in the British Medical Journal, April 27, 2002. [PDF]
• * Arya, N. "Healing our Planet: Physicians and Global Security." Croatian Medical Journal 44, no. 2 (2003): 139-147.
• * Arya N. Peace through health I: development and use of a working model. Med Confl Surviv. 2004; 20(3):242-57.
• * Arya, N. and W. Cukier. "The International Small Arms Situation: A Public Health Approach." In Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide. Springer-Verlag, 2004.
• * Arya N, Santa Barbara J. Eds. Peace Through Health: How Health Professionals Can Work for a Less Violent World. Kumarian Press, 2008. [LINK]
• *Ashford M. and Dauncy, G. Enough Blood Shed - 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War. New Society Publishers, 2006. [LINK]
• Beyna, LS, M. Lund, SS Stacks, J. Tuthill, and P. Vendal. The Effectiveness of Civil Society Initiatives in Controlling Violent Conflicts and Building Peace: A Study of Three Approaches in the Greater Horn of Africa. Greater Horn of Africa Peace Building Project, USAID, 2001.
• * Buhmann, CB. "The Role of Health Professionals in Preventing and Mediating Conflict." Medicine, Conflict & Survival 21, no. 4 (2005): 299-311.
• Butchart et al. Preventing violence: a guide to implementing the recommendations of the world report on violence and health. Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2004. [LINK]
• * Edited By Chandré Gould And Guy Lamb - Chapter on Zambia by Mtonga,R Hide And Seek: Taking Account Of Small Arms In Southern Africa. [LINK]
• Coupland, R. M. "The Effect of Weapons on Health." Lancet 347, (1996): 450-451.
• Cukier, W. and A. Chapdelaine. "Small Arms: A Major Public Health Hazard." Medicine & Global Survival 7, no. 26 (2001): 32.
• IPPNW and SAFER-Net; Global Trade in Small Arms: Health Effects and Interventions, March 2001. [PDF]
• Galeria J, Phebo L. Using public health information to inform, build support and implement policies for gun violence prevention: A case study from the gun ban referendum, African Security Review Vol 15 No 2.  [LINK]
• Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development. Global Burden of Armed Violence, 2008. Geneva. [LINK]
• * John, I. A. The Impact of Small Arms on Health in Nigeria. Medicine, Conflict & Survival 21, no. 4 (2005): 312-314.
• Kobusingye OC. Injury prevention and safety promotion in Africa – local actors and global partners. African Safety Promotion. 2006;Vol 4 No 1:44-51.
• Kobusingye, O. "The Effects of SALW Proliferation and Abuse in Gulu District, Uganda: A Public Health Approach." Bonn International Centre for Conversion Briefs 24, no. Gender perspectives on SALW: Regional and International Concerns (2002): 73-77.
• Kobusingye, O., D. Guwatudde, and R. Lett. "Injury Patterns in Rural and Urban Uganda." Injury Prevention 7, no. 1 (2001): 46-55.
• Krug EG et al. World report on violence and health. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2002. [LINK]
• *Levy, B, and Sidel, V, Eds. Social Injustice and Public Health, Oxford University Press, 2005. [LINK]
• * E Levy, B and Sidel,V, Eds. War and Public Health; Oxford University Press, 2000. [LINK]
• MacQueen G, Santa-Barbara J. Peace building through health initiatives. BMJ. 2000;321:293-296.
• Nordberg, E. "Injuries as a Public Health Problem in Sub-Saharan Africa: Epidemiology and Prospects for Control." East African Medical Journal 77, no. 12 Suppl (2000): S1-S43.  
• PAHO, Guidelines for the Epidemiological Surveillance on Violence and Injuries. 2001. [LINK]
• * Paniagua, I, Crespin,E, Guardado, A and Mauricio, A. Wounds caused by firearms in El Salvador, 2003-2004: Epidemiological Issues. Medicine, Conflict & Survival 21, no. 3 (2005): 191-198. [PDF]
• * Pinto AD, Olupot-Olupot P, Neufeld VR. Health implications of small arms and light weapons in eastern Uganda. Med Confl Surviv. 2006; 22(3):207-19. [PDF]
• Plümper T, Neumayer E. The unequal burden of war: the effects of armed conflict on the gender gap in life expectancy. International Organization. 2006;(3)723-754.
• * Ruler, A. Making the Case for Gun Law Reform Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand. March 2009; Vol 15, No2. [PDF]
• * Sidel, V, The International Arms Trade and Its Impact on Health, in British Medical Journal, 23 December 1995. [PDF]
• Ugalde, A., E. Selva-Sutter, C. Castillo, C. Paz, and S. Canas. "The Health Costs of War: Can they be Measured? Lessons from El Salvador." British Medical Journal 321, (2000): 169-172.
• * Wesley, R, Sidel, V, Gun Violence A Call for Physician Activism: Lessons From the Struggle to Ban Weapons of Mass Destruction, Medicine and Global Survival, June 1994 Vol. 1, No. 2. [PDF]
• Woodhouse, T. "Preventive Medicine: Can Conflicts be Prevented?" British Medical Journal 319, (1999): 396-397.
• World Health Organization, World Report on Violence and Health, Geneva 2002. [LINK]
• World Health Organization. Small arms and global health. WHO contribution to the UN conference on illicit trade world in small arms and light weapons July 9-20, 2001. WHO/NMH/VIP/01.1. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2001. [LINK]
• World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Universite Catholique de Louvain. Armed conflict and public health. A report on knowledge and knowledge gaps. Brussels;2002. [PDF]
• Zwi, AB. "How should the Health Community Respond to Violent Political Conflict?" PLoS Medicine 1, no. 1 (2004): e14.

IPPNW Statements on Small Arms and Light Weapons

• Prescriptions for Prevention: A Health and Human-Centered Approach to Reducing SALW Violence - Conference room paper submitted by the IANSA Public Health Network to the UN PoA 2012. [PDF]
• NGOs Urge Governments to "Cast a Wide Net" in Controlling Small Arms
  Report on IPPNW participation at the Preparatory Committee, 2nd Session, UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, 8-19 January, 2001 at the UN in New York. [PDF]
• Statement by Cathy Falvo, MD, MPH, at the Small Arms PrepComm, 18 January, 2001. [PDF]

Landmines

Primary Care of Landmine Injuries in Africa. Produced by IPPNW. Contributing Editor: Ian Maddocks. Editorial: Piji Protopsaltis, Lynn Martin, and John Loretz. Design: Lynn Martin. 2000. This was a 70+ page document, so it is broken up into chapter for more maneageable downloading.
Chapter 1: Basic Information [PDF]
Chapter 2: Care at the Place Where Injury Occurs [PDF]
Chapter 3: Care at the Rural Clinic [PDF]
Chapter 4: Care at the District Hospital
Part 1 [PDF]
Part 2 [PDF]
Part 3 [PDF]
Part 4 [PDF]
Part 5 [PDF]
Part 6 [PDF]
Chapter 5: Rehabilitation [PDF]
Chapter 6: Psycho-social Issues Consequent on Landmine Injury [PDF]

Peaceful Caucases: A Future Without Mines. Report on the Second International Conference on Landmines in Russia and the Former Soviet Union. December 5-7, 1999. [PDF]

Health and War in Iraq

• Rehabilitation Under Fire: Health Care in Iraq 2003-7. January 2008. [PDF]
• Continuing Collateral Damage: The Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq. Medact. November 2003. [PDF]
• Collateral Damage: The Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq. Medact. November 2002. [PDF]