As soon as I'm finished speaking here, I will sit at that desk and I will sign a directive giving law enforcement, schools, mental health professionals and the public health community some of the tools they need to help reduce gun violence.

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Participating in the original conversation were a program that uses public health strategies to reduce urban violence ( Cure Violence), a group of young people creating health care tools for mobile devices ( Medic Mobile), and organizations using crisis mapping and SMS messaging to promote peace and facilitate humanitarian relief ( Ushahidi and Sisi ni Amani).

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In a fast-moving, interconnected, and open-information world, anticipating and preventing armed conflict or mass atrocities requires tools that are equally as fast, flexible and high-impact as the modern perpetrators of violence.

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But we did what was necessary and important, but we knew more had to be done to reduce domestic violence, domestic violence homicides, to provide new tools, as was just spoken to, to protect Native American women, to address the perplexing rate of dating violence among young women, and so much more.

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