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Conference Programme

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Wednesday, 17 September 2014

King's College, Cambridge	Reception & Welcome
All day Scott's Building	Arrival and Registration
19:00 - 21:00 Dining Hall	Reception and Welcome Dinner

Thursday, 18 September 2014

King's College, Cambridge	Conference Day 1 Chair: Alexander Butchart World Health Organization, Coordinator of the Violence and Injury
09:00 - 09:30 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Welcome and Objectives Jeremy Sanders Pro-Vice Chancellor for Institutional Affairs at the University of Cambridge Etienne Krug Director of the Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability at the WHO Manuel Eisner Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminology and Director of the Violence Research Centre at the University of Cambridge
09:30 - 10:00 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Where Do We Want to Get and How? Outlining the Challenges Alexander Butchart World Health Organization, Coordinator of the Violence and Injury Prevention Unit
10:00 - 10:30 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Linking Developmental Science and Prevention Research to Intervene More Effectively in Child Development Theresa Betancourt Harvard University, Associate Professor of Child Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, Director of the Research Program and Children and Global Adversity
10:30 - 10:45 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Discussion
10:45 - 11:15 Chetwynd Room	Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Reducing Child Abuse: Tackling the Challenges in High Violence Societies Bernadette Madrid University of Philippines, Director of the Child Protection Unit; Philippine General Hospital, Executive Director of the Child Protection Network Foundation
11:45 - 12:15 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Global Strategies to Reduce Violence Against Children David Finkelhor University of New Hampshire, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Centre, Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory
12:15 - 12:45 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Global Strategies to Reduce Violence Against Women Rachel Jewkes Medical Research Council, Director of the Gender and Health Research Unit
12:45 - 13:00 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Discussion
13:00 - 14:30 Dining Hall	Standing Buffet with Poster Presentations from Bursary Scholars
14:30 - 16:30 TBC	Thematic Sessions Creating and Using the Global Evidence Base for Violence Reduction Building Violence Prevention Research Capacity Reducing Sexual Abuse of Children and Adolescents Reducing Violence in Public Space Promoting Good Governance and Civil Society Reducing Organised Forms of Violence
16:30 -17:00 Chetwynd Room	Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30 Keynes Lecture Theatre	From Universal Mechanisms to Evidence-Based Violence Reduction Manuel Eisner University of Cambridge, Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminology, Professor of Comparative and Developmental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Director of the Violence Research Centre
17:30 - 18:00 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Discussion
19:30 - 22:00 Dining Hall	Conference Banquet

Friday, 19 September 2014

King's College, Cambridge	Conference Day 2 Chair: Manuel Eisner Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminology and Director of the Violence Research Centre at the University of Cambridge
09:00 - 09:30 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Principles of Evidence-Based Practice for Youth Violence Prevention: Lessons from Around the World Nancy Guerra University of Delaware, Director of the Institute for Global Studies
09:30 - 10:00 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Reducing Youth Violence: Tackling the Challenges in High Violence Societies Maria Fernanda Tourinho Peres University of São Paulo, Professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine, Associate Researcher at the Center for the Study of Violence
10:00 - 10:15 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 Chetwynd Room	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Preventing Civil Conflict: Effective Leadership and Good Governance Robert Rotberg Harvard University, Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center
11:15 -11:45 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Promoting Justice and Making the Police More Effective Lawrence Sherman University of Cambridge, Director of the Institute of Criminology, Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology, Director of the Police Executive Programme
11:45 - 12:15 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Treating Violent Offenders More Effectively: Alternatives to Punishment Friedrich Lösel University of Cambridge, Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Criminology; University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Professor of Psychology at the Institute of Psychology
12:15 - 12:30 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Discussion
12:30 - 14:00 Dining Hall	Standing Buffet
14:00 - 16:00 TBC	Thematic Sessions Global Actors: International Organisations and Private Philanthropy Scaling Up Interventions and Building Evidence-based Support Systems Reducing Intimate Partner Violence Against Women Controlling Triggers to Violence Reforming the Police Forces and Making Them Better Serve Their People What Penal Policy for Less Violent Societies?
16:00 -17:00 Keynes Lecture Theatre	Plenary Discussion: What Kind of Science is Needed for an Effective Global Violence Reduction Strategy?

Friday, 19 September 2014

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge	Public Lecture of the Global Violence Reduction Conference 2014
18:30 - 19:30 West Road Concert Hall	The Past, Present and Future of Violence Steven Pinker Harvard University, Johnstone Family Professor at the Department of Psychology