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In 2006, the late I. Barry Pless, then editor-in-chief of Injury Prevention, pleaded that ‘Promoting the international arms trade’ (was) ‘incompatible with medical publishing’s values’1; this editorial was triggered by revelations regarding the involvement of a major publisher with the arms industry. The question of the concordance of our values with the promotion of violence determinants might still be raised regarding our support to the recurrent World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, of which the abstracts have been published as a supplement of Injury Prevention since 2002.
This conference is logically organised in countries where the injury prevention and research community are strong. For instance, the 2024 edition was hosted jointly by four WHO Collaborating Centres, including three in the country where the conference is held. Notably, the three local centres, by their numerous publications, contribute to the visibility of the host country’s role in injury prevention and safety promotion. In my opinion, this contribution in itself justifies …
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Contributors RS has designed and carried out the work and is the sole author and guarantor of the work.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer-reviewed.
Author note L. Rachid Salmi, senior Editor of Injury Prevention, holds two citizenships, French and Moroccan. He defines himself of multiple cultures, influenced by his dual roots in Muslim and Christian families, and his training and work experience in the USA and Canada, and numerous exchanges with academia in many countries in Africa, South-America, and the Middle-East and Mediterranean region.