Centre For Armed Violence Reduction

The Centre for Armed Violence Reduction aims to enable sustainable development, peace and security by contributing to and promoting efforts to reduce and prevent armed violence.

Armed violence kills more than one person a minute, and has displaced as many as 40 million. The proportion of the world’s poorest who live in countries highly affected by fragility, conflict and armed violence is increasing rapidly.

Despite this, little is known or compared about armed violence reduction (AVR), existing and proposed AVR projects, local and overseas expenditure and impacts in each country.

AVR Monitor, a project of the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction, helps countries and communities advance their AVR work by connecting stakeholders with reliable, attributable and comparable information, data, tools and analysis on armed violence prevention initiatives world-wide.