According to recent estimates at least 740,000 people a year die directly or indirectly due to armed violence. Beyond such vast losses of life are the serious and long-term costs to surviving individuals and their communities: long-term hospitalization and extensive rehabilitation of the injured; disruption of formal and informal labour markets; reductions in (or absence 
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