Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention :
Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention : Innovative Approaches in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab Region /
Silvia Matuk, Kosta Mathéy.
- 1. Aufl.
- Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2014] ©2014
- 1 online resource
- Urban Studies .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Setting the Context -- Introduction / Violence, Cities, and Prevention: A Conceptual Framework for Reducing Violence in the Urban Realm / Lessons Learnt from Africa -- Ethnopolitics, Fear and Safety in a Johannesburg Neighbourhood / Land Transformation and Criminal Violence in Dandora Neighbourhood, Nairobi, Kenya / Communities and the Prevention of Crime and Violence in Douala, Cameroon / "There is no Justice in Guinea-Bissau" Strategies of Preventing, Handling, and Aggravating Conflicts in Local Dispute Settlement / A Lesson from China -- Urban Violence and the Chinese State in the Post-Mao Reform / Lessons Learnt from Latin America -- Local Civil Society and the New Puzzle of Violence in Central America / Meanings and Practices of Non-violence / Integrated Urban Upgrading and Violence Prevention in San Salvador Results of an Impact Evaluation / Drug-Related Violence in Mexico: State and Community Responses. A qualitative Approach / Youth and Gang Violence -- Youth as Key Actors in the Social Prevention of Violence / Overcoming the Invisible Boundaries of an Informal Neighborhood: A Youth Initiative in Itagüi, Colombia / Targeting Adolescence Vandalism in a Refugee Camp / Alternative Approaches to Combat Urban Violence -- Religious Procession as a Mediator for Social Intimacy: Building Communal Harmony in Dharavi after the 1992 Mumbai Riot / Violence and the Enchantment of Everyday Life in Johannesburg: Preliminary Insights / Embracing the Complexity of Community Safety Challenges / The Contributors Moser, Caroline -- Mathéy, Kosta / Matuk, Silvia -- Kasang, Nicholas -- Katsaura, Obvious -- Opiyo, Romanus O. -- Sados Touonsi, Christophe -- Borszik, Anne-Kristin -- Shao, Qin -- Zinecker, Heidrun -- Sánchez Medina, Luz Amparo -- Kotowski, Joanna -- Martinez-Solares, Veronica -- Beltrán, María Antonieta / Savenije, Wim -- Sánchez Betancur, Leiman Julieth / Restrepo Arango, Carlos Andrés -- Al-Nammari, Fatima M. -- Nejad, Reza Masoudi -- Katsaura, Obvious -- Holtmann, Barbara / Holtmann, Emma --
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Urban violence has become a major threat in big cities of the world. Where the orthodox protection through the police and individual target hardening remain inefficient, the population must organize itself.This book contains first-hand accounts on a selection of the most innovative experiences in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab region and is of interest likewise for academics and urban practitioners, policy makers, international cooperation experts or travelers preparing a visit of one of the affected countries.With a preface by Caroline Moser.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license:
In English.
9783839429907
10.14361/transcript.9783839429907 doi
Peace-building.
Violence--Prevention.
City.
Community.
GLOBUS.
Peacebuilding.
Safety.
Sociology of Crime.
Sociology.
Urban Studies.
Violence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
HM1116 / .C666 2015eb
303.6
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Setting the Context -- Introduction / Violence, Cities, and Prevention: A Conceptual Framework for Reducing Violence in the Urban Realm / Lessons Learnt from Africa -- Ethnopolitics, Fear and Safety in a Johannesburg Neighbourhood / Land Transformation and Criminal Violence in Dandora Neighbourhood, Nairobi, Kenya / Communities and the Prevention of Crime and Violence in Douala, Cameroon / "There is no Justice in Guinea-Bissau" Strategies of Preventing, Handling, and Aggravating Conflicts in Local Dispute Settlement / A Lesson from China -- Urban Violence and the Chinese State in the Post-Mao Reform / Lessons Learnt from Latin America -- Local Civil Society and the New Puzzle of Violence in Central America / Meanings and Practices of Non-violence / Integrated Urban Upgrading and Violence Prevention in San Salvador Results of an Impact Evaluation / Drug-Related Violence in Mexico: State and Community Responses. A qualitative Approach / Youth and Gang Violence -- Youth as Key Actors in the Social Prevention of Violence / Overcoming the Invisible Boundaries of an Informal Neighborhood: A Youth Initiative in Itagüi, Colombia / Targeting Adolescence Vandalism in a Refugee Camp / Alternative Approaches to Combat Urban Violence -- Religious Procession as a Mediator for Social Intimacy: Building Communal Harmony in Dharavi after the 1992 Mumbai Riot / Violence and the Enchantment of Everyday Life in Johannesburg: Preliminary Insights / Embracing the Complexity of Community Safety Challenges / The Contributors Moser, Caroline -- Mathéy, Kosta / Matuk, Silvia -- Kasang, Nicholas -- Katsaura, Obvious -- Opiyo, Romanus O. -- Sados Touonsi, Christophe -- Borszik, Anne-Kristin -- Shao, Qin -- Zinecker, Heidrun -- Sánchez Medina, Luz Amparo -- Kotowski, Joanna -- Martinez-Solares, Veronica -- Beltrán, María Antonieta / Savenije, Wim -- Sánchez Betancur, Leiman Julieth / Restrepo Arango, Carlos Andrés -- Al-Nammari, Fatima M. -- Nejad, Reza Masoudi -- Katsaura, Obvious -- Holtmann, Barbara / Holtmann, Emma --
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
Urban violence has become a major threat in big cities of the world. Where the orthodox protection through the police and individual target hardening remain inefficient, the population must organize itself.This book contains first-hand accounts on a selection of the most innovative experiences in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab region and is of interest likewise for academics and urban practitioners, policy makers, international cooperation experts or travelers preparing a visit of one of the affected countries.With a preface by Caroline Moser.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license:
In English.
9783839429907
10.14361/transcript.9783839429907 doi
Peace-building.
Violence--Prevention.
City.
Community.
GLOBUS.
Peacebuilding.
Safety.
Sociology of Crime.
Sociology.
Urban Studies.
Violence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
HM1116 / .C666 2015eb
303.6