Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention : Innovative Approaches in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab Region

Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention Innovative Approaches in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab Region

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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 Af...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mathéy, Kosta, editor (editor), Matuk, Silvia, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag [2014]
Edición:1. Aufl
Colección:De Gruyter Open Access ebooks.
Urban Studies.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43337430*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface / Moser, Caroline
  • Setting the Context
  • Introduction / Mathéy, Kosta / Matuk, Silvia
  • Violence, Cities, and Prevention: A Conceptual Framework for Reducing Violence in the Urban Realm / Kasang, Nicholas
  • Lessons Learnt from Africa
  • Ethnopolitics, Fear and Safety in a Johannesburg Neighbourhood / Katsaura, Obvious
  • Land Transformation and Criminal Violence in Dandora Neighbourhood, Nairobi, Kenya / Opiyo, Romanus O.
  • Communities and the Prevention of Crime and Violence in Douala, Cameroon / Sados Touonsi, Christophe
  • "There is no Justice in Guinea-Bissau" Strategies of Preventing, Handling, and Aggravating Conflicts in Local Dispute Settlement / Borszik, Anne-Kristin
  • A Lesson from China
  • Urban Violence and the Chinese State in the Post-Mao Reform / Shao, Qin
  • Lessons Learnt from Latin America
  • Local Civil Society and the New Puzzle of Violence in Central America / Zinecker, Heidrun
  • Meanings and Practices of Non-violence / Sánchez Medina, Luz Amparo
  • Integrated Urban Upgrading and Violence Prevention in San Salvador Results of an Impact Evaluation / Kotowski, Joanna
  • Drug-Related Violence in Mexico: State and Community Responses. A qualitative Approach / Martinez-Solares, Veronica
  • Youth and Gang Violence
  • Youth as Key Actors in the Social Prevention of Violence / Beltrán, María Antonieta / Savenije, Wim
  • Overcoming the Invisible Boundaries of an Informal Neighborhood: A Youth Initiative in Itagüi, Colombia / Sánchez Betancur, Leiman Julieth / Restrepo Arango, Carlos Andrés
  • Targeting Adolescence Vandalism in a Refugee Camp / Al-Nammari, Fatima M.
  • Alternative Approaches to Combat Urban Violence
  • Religious Procession as a Mediator for Social Intimacy: Building Communal Harmony in Dharavi after the 1992 Mumbai Riot / Nejad, Reza Masoudi
  • Violence and the Enchantment of Everyday Life in Johannesburg: Preliminary Insights / Katsaura, Obvious
  • Embracing the Complexity of Community Safety Challenges / Holtmann, Barbara / Holtmann, Emma
  • The Contributors.

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