1. Armed Violence Reporting and Research
Using the Taback-Coupland model

2. A public health approach
Use of weapon = armed violence
Effects of armed violence = health issue
Strict definitions of health and violence (WHO)
Any impact on health has identifiable risk factors

3. What are the risk factors for the EFFECTS of armed violence in any context?
The nature of the weapon
The number of weapons in use
The way the weapon is used
The victim's vulnerability

4. About the risk factors
"Necessary but not sufficient"
Interact in violence
Any preventive measure pertains to one or more of the risk factors

5. The Taback-Coupland model
Type of
weapon
Effects of
armed violence
Victims'
vulnerability
Violence
Number of
weapons in use
The Taback-Coupland model

6. Creating a database for armed violence reporting and research
Taback-Coupland model designed for individual events
Data about effects and risk factors from real events but….
From where?
Written reports
Media reports
Details of reports – XL spreadsheet
Fields for risk factors and effects
Surrogates and binary values

7. Headline: Two dead, 27 wounded in Aden bomb blast
Agence France-Presse 20 September 1998
Two people were killed, including a child, and 27 injured in a bomb explosion at a busy vegetable market in the Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday, police said.
Police said the boy was selling water as a TNT device exploded on a merchant's barrow. A tea merchant was also killed, while the man pushing the barrow was seriously hurt and both his legs were amputated in hospital.
The blast in Sheikh Othman suburb took place near the local municipality building and a police post.

8. Headline: Two dead, 27 wounded in Aden bomb blast
Agence France-Presse 20 September 1998
[Two people were killed, including a child, and 27 injured – EFFECTS] in [a - NUMBER] [bomb – WEAPON] explosion at [a busy vegetable market – VULNERABILITY] in the Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday, police said.
Police said the boy was selling water as a TNT device exploded on a merchant's barrow. A tea merchant was also killed, while the man pushing the barrow was seriously hurt and both his legs were amputated in hospital.
The blast in Sheikh Othman suburb took place near the [local municipality building and a police post - ?INTENT.]

9. HEADLINE: Two Rwandan soldiers kill seven in revenge attack
DATELINE: Kigali Copyright 1998 Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Two Rwandan army soldiers killed seven people and wounded four others in southern Butare district, official sources reported Tuesday.
The two soldiers had gone back to their village looking for a man they said had killed many of their relatives.
Military sources reported that when the soldiers found the man in a local bar drinking with other villagers, they threw a grenade in the bar and opened fire on the people, killing seven and wounding four others.
One of the soldiers was later caught by security forces, while the second one escaped.

10. HEADLINE: Two Rwandan soldiers kill seven in revenge attack
DATELINE: Kigali Copyright 1998 Deutsche Presse-Agentur
[Two – NUMBER] Rwandan army soldiers [killed seven people and wounded four – EFFECT] in southern Butare district, official sources reported Tuesday.
The two soldiers had gone back to their village [looking for a man - INTENT] they said had killed many of their relatives.
Military sources reported that when the soldiers found the man [in a local bar – VULNERABILITY] drinking with other villagers, they threw [a grenade in the bar and opened fire - WEAPON] on the people, killing seven and wounding four others.
One of the soldiers was later caught by security forces, while the second one escaped.

11. Violence:
The intentional use of physical force or power - threatened or actual - against oneself, another person, or against a group or community that results in or has the likelihood to result in injury or death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation (WHO)

12. Health:
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease (WHO)