George Dunne Cameron Hosking OBE (born 27 December 1943 in Bowmore, in the Hebridean island of Islay) is a British Quaker, economist, accountant, psychologist, and clinical criminologist who founded

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in 1996.

Education

He graduated with an Honours M.A. degree in Political Economy with Economic History from Glasgow University in 1966; qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1969 (later becoming a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, FCMA); graduated with a First Class Honours B.Sc. degree in Psychology from Birkbeck College, London University, in 1983; with a PG Diploma in Clinical Criminology from Birmingham University in 1998; and with an Advanced PG Diploma in the Management of Psychological Trauma from Nottingham Trent University in 2000.

Career

Hosking has been successful in taking WAVE Trust from a small organization chatting about how to tackle the root causes of

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in internet

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, to being WAVE adviser to the UK Home Office,

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and Scottish

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on violence reduction. The

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have commended WAVE’s groundbreaking work and WAVE has become part of WHO’s global Violence Prevention Alliance Hosking has looked at how to tackle violence at it roots by identifying and understanding root causes, rather than operating on symptoms. His consultancy has helped transform profitability for well-known international companies. Hosking has been doing therapeutic work with violent criminals both in prison and after release. To date none of his clients have re-offended with violence, in or out of prison. Hosking was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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for services to reducing violence, particularly child abuse.

References

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