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Symposium on Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Violence Prevention

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Symposium on Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Violence Prevention

Center for the Study and Practice of Violence Reduction, University of Maryland
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

The Center for the Study and Practice of Violence Reduction (VRC) is hosting a symposium on cognitive behavioral interventions (CBI) for violence reduction in order to raise awareness, advance practice, and build capacity in this important area. Cognitive behavioral interventions (CBI) have emerged as a key evidence-informed intervention for addressing community gun violence. That said, the capacity to implement these strategies remains limited, particularly when treating those at the highest risk for such violence, and the costs of such programs can run high.

With the support of the Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, the VRC is bringing together nationally recognized experts with a select group of on-the-ground practitioners for a day-long in-person meeting to identify best practices, address implementation challenges, and propose strategies for building capacity while increasing cost-effectiveness. The symposium will result in the publication of a white paper and other resources.

Event Details

Welcome Dinner
GrillMarx UMD
7777 Baltimore Avenue, College Park, MD 20742
Monday, October 21, 2024, 6-8pm

Symposium
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 8am-3:30pm

Registration Deadline : 11:59pm ET on Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Call for Submissions to Inaugural Guns in Society Annual Symposium

CSGS’s Inaugural Guns in Society Symposium

January 30 – February 1, 2025
Tempe campus of Arizona State University

Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Guns in Society invites submission to the Inaugural Guns in Society Annual Symposium January 30 to February 1, 2025, on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University.

Organized around the theme of “Elevating the Gun Debate, Bridging Gun Divides,” this symposium aims to bring together cutting-edge scholars whose work frustrates the typical terms of the gun debate–and provides the insights necessary to think more expansively about the significance of guns in American life. Gun politics represent one of the most polarizing topics in the current US political climate. But our two-sided gun debate obscures the more complex reality of guns in American life: from gun violence to gun ownership, we experience guns in complicated, and often ambivalent, ways that vastly exceed the simplistic terms of the gun debate. This symposium is motivated by a key claim: a core challenge facing Americans today about guns is our collective inability to engage the complexity of gun ownership, gun violence, and gun policy.

We are interested in agenda-setting work on the culture and politics of armed self-defense; gun violence and gun trauma; guns, identity, and inequality; guns, markets and the economy; social movements surrounding gun rights and/or gun control; comparative/transnational approaches to guns in society; the intersection of guns, conservation, and environmental justice; the role of art in shaping our relationships with guns; and related topics grounded in qualitative or quantitative social science and humanities approaches.

To submit an abstract, please complete this form by September 20, 2024.