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Solutions to make cities safe and inclusive

More than 75 researchers and policymaker have tested the effectiveness of urban violence reduction theories, strategies, and interventions.
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Friday, October 20, 2017 - 10:00
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Gender and violence in cities

Millions, especially women, live with a deep sense of insecurity and experience violence in a multitude of forms each day.
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Friday, October 20, 2017 - 08:30
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When community ties lead to violent crimes

While armed shootouts are increasingly rare in Tabajaras/Cabritos, long-time residents now worry that the neighbourhood is no longer theirs.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - 13:00
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Evicted

According to a UN fact-finding mission, some 700,000 people lost their homes, livelihoods, or both in what many believed was an effort to punish the regime’s opposition supporters.
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Friday, October 20, 2017 - 14:30
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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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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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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
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Social cohesion: The missing link in overcoming violence and inequality?

This study will adopt a groundbreaking approach to understanding and responding to urban violence in two cities: Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro.
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People, places and infrastructure: Countering urban violence and promoting justice in Mumbai, Rio, and Durban

In today's rapidly urbanizing world, cities offer economic opportunity and social mobility, yet they are also places of violence for increasingly large numbers of residents.
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Justice and security Poverty Poverty alleviation Economic and social development

Fear, crime, and social cohesion in urban South Africa

“Social cohesion” broadly refers to the factors that hold a society together, including shared values and identity, feelings of belonging, civic participation, and political legitimacy. A body of theory based on the experience of communities in high-income countries suggests that strong social cohesion can act as a protective factor against violence. But despite rapid urbanisation in the Global South, there has been little empirical research to date on social cohesion and its relationship to violence in middle- and low-income countries.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - 11:00

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