Conceptualising armed violence reduction and prevention

This chapter sets out a basic typology of different Armed violence reduction and prevention (AVRP) programmes and highlights emerging promising practices. It “sets the scene” for the empirical assessment featured in subsequent chapters. Armed violence reduction and prevention interventions can be direct, indirect or components of wider development schemes. Direct interventions aim to influence the instruments, actors and institutional environments that enable armed violence. Indirect interventions counter the proximate and structural risk factors that shape armed violence onset and intensity. Broader development schemes may not have armed violence reduction and prevention as their primary aim but can nonetheless contribute to reductions in insecurity over time.