Research in Action
Gender
Gender and violence in cities
Published date
Friday, October 20, 2017 - 08:30
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Assessing the Impact of State-Community Collaboration to Address Urban Violence in South Africa
A number of factors cause urban violence-and they require both short and long-term interventions. Many countries direct huge amounts of resources at what governments believe to be the root causes of urban violence.
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Exploring the crime and poverty nexus in urban Ghana
The link between poverty, crime, and urban violence is one that must be fully explored in sub-Saharan Africa. Existing models and theories aimed at reducing urban violence and crime are largely founded on experiences in North America and Europe.
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The nature and perpetrators of urban violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing violence and growing, ever-evolving urban crime in a time of unstable institutions and security, soaring urbanization, increasing inequality, and a chronic lack of basic public service including employmen
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Involuntary Resettlement: A Cross-Country Study on Urban Inequality and Poverty
Involuntary displacement in urban areas takes place when people are forced to leave and do not have the option to stay. It can be caused by development projects, conflict, or natural disasters.
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Phenomenology of criminal violence and challenges for local urban governance in Côte d'Ivoire
This research focuses on the changes in criminal urban violence that have accompanied the sociopolitical developments in Côte d'Ivoire since the 1990s.
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Poverty, inequality and violence in urban India: Towards more inclusive urban planning
This research will investigate how inclusive urban planning and governance can help reduce urban tensions, conflicts, inequalities, and violence in five Indian cities (Ahmedabad, Gurgaon, Patna, Guwahati, and Bidar).
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Unearthing exclusions: Towards more inclusive Zimbabwean cities
Some 40% of Zimbabwe's 12 million inhabitants live in cities. This number is expected to grow at a rate of approximately 4% per year. The population of Harare, Zimbabwe's largest city has grown four-fold in the past 30 years.
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Gender and violence in urban Pakistan
Young adult men are the most visible and well-studied agents and victims of violence in urban areas. Young adult women, for their part, are the most invisible. They are relatively under-studied actors in urban violence.
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Urban upgrading for violence prevention in South Africa: Does it work?
The Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) project, funded jointly by the German Development Bank and the City of Cape Town in South Africa, is a prime example of an evidence-based intervention for violence prevention that was designed