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Using Strategies Reserved for Disease Outbreak, Activists Try to “Cure” Urban Violence

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Fourteen years after Cure Violence started in Chicago, studies show its tactics—which treat violence as a “disease” to be contained—are working. It’s newest partner? Syria.

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