Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Theory and Methodology -- 1 Toward an Applied Theory of Violence Prevention -- 2 Reporting and Warning about Deadly Possibilities -- II Violence Prevention on the Ground -- 3 Organizing against Ethnoreligious Violence in Ahmedabad -- 4 Interrupting Gang Violence in Chicago -- 5 Counteracting Ethnoreligious Violence in Sri Lanka -- 6 Crowdsourcing during Post-election Violence in Kenya -- 7 Circumventing Tribal Violence in East Africa -- 8 Comparing the Approaches -- 9 How to Intervene Effectively -- 10 What to Do When Violence Prevention Is Unlikely to Work -- III Resource Allocation Considerations and Recommendations -- 11 Concerns about Misallocation of Resources -- 12 Future Directions and Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Reporting Sheet for Field Officers -- Appendix B: Categories for Local Conflict Early Warning and Early Response -- Appendix C: "Super Event" Categories -- Appendix D: Indicators of the CEWARN Mechanism -- Appendix E: Results from Statistical Analysis on Organized Raids -- Acronyms -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.