Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015
Every Body Counts

The Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015 examines international debates on including peace and security in the post-2015 development framework.

Geneva Declaration Secretariat (Author)

9781107640191, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 April 2015

196 pages
21 x 21 x 1.2 cm, 0.52 kg

The 2015 edition of the Global Burden of Armed Violence provides a wealth of data relevant to security and the post-2015 sustainable development framework. It estimates that 508,000 people died violently - in both conflict and non-conflict settings - every year in 2007–12, down from 526,000 in 2004–09. This trend is visible in non-conflict settings, where the proportion of women and girls is also slightly reduced, from 17 to 16 per cent. Yet, the number of direct conflict deaths is on the rise: from 55,000 to 70,000 per year over the same periods. Firearms are used in close to half of all homicides committed and in almost one-third of direct conflict deaths. Nearly USD 2 trillion in global homicide-related economic losses could have been saved if the homicide rate in 2000–10 had been reduced to the lowest practically attainable levels - between 2 and 3 deaths per 100,000 population.

Executive summary
1. Violence, security, and the new global development agenda
2. Lethal violence update
3. Lethal violence against women and girls
4. Unpacking lethal violence
5. The economic cost of homicide.

Subject Areas: Development economics & emerging economies [KCM], International economics [KCL], Economic growth [KCG], Arms negotiation & control [JPSF], International relations [JPS], Crime & criminology [JKV], Social services & welfare, criminology [JK], Peace studies & conflict resolution [GTJ]