Gun violence

What is it about?

This is a book review of an edited collection on gun violence, disability and the links to recovery. It was funded by the Norwegian government and the Surviving Gun Violence Project took the lead in ensuring contributions that placed survivors and their concerns centrally. According to the website: You can buy the book in three possible formats: as an ebook ($40), PDF file ($40) or order a good old fashioned paper book ($75) which will be posted to you. All proceeds — 100% — from the sale of the book (in all its forms) are going directly to the Transitions Foundation in Guatemala, an inspiring organisation working with little sustained financial support, established by survivors of violence working directly with people injured and impaired from gun violence, as well as disability more broadly. The Director, Alex Gálvez, shot and paralysed at the age of 14 while on his way to buy a soft drink, is on the cover of the book. In South Africa, sales of the book are being directed to the Ronnie Fakude Trust. A section of the book focuses on the plight of Ronnie Fakude, paralysed from gun violence, and on remand in jail with limited medical care. http://survivinggunviolence.org/book/ Gun Violence, Disability and Recovery (PDF Download Available). Available from: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/271505405_Gun_Violence_Disability_and_Recovery [accessed Aug 6, 2015].

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Why is it important?

Rising inequalities have a correlation to increases in destabilisation, conflict and violence. Similarly, the proliferation of small arms and their vested legal and illegal economic, political and socio-cultural links mean that more people are being affected by gun violence, both in the Global North and Global South. This makes this book urgent to review.

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