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

book: Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2014

Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention

Innovative Approaches in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab Region

Edited by: Kosta Mathéy and Silvia Matuk
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2019: Backlist Collection

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839429907

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Kosta Mathéy (Prof. Dr.) is director of GLOBUS, the Global Urban Institute, in Berlin and teaches at the HafenCity University Hamburg. He conceived the »Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading Program« in Cape Town, generally considered to be the most successful of that kind in Africa.
Silvia Matuk (Dipl.-Ing.) is co-director of GLOBUS and worked in housing reconstruction after the civil war in El Salvador.

Reviews

Reviewed in:

www.friedensnews.at, 11.01.2015, Andreas Hermann Landl
Environment & Urbanization, 2 (2015), Mara Evangelina Filippi
Wissenschaft & Frieden, 1 (2015)

Topics

Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	v
Preface Caroline Moser Open Access Download PDF	1
Setting the Context
Introduction Kosta Mathéy and Silvia Matuk Open Access Download PDF	6
Violence, Cities, and Prevention: A Conceptual Framework for Reducing Violence in the Urban Realm Nicholas Kasang Open Access Download PDF	24
Lessons Learnt from Africa
Ethnopolitics, Fear and Safety in a Johannesburg Neighbourhood Obvious Katsaura Open Access Download PDF	42
Land Transformation and Criminal Violence in Dandora Neighbourhood, Nairobi, Kenya Romanus O. Opiyo Open Access Download PDF	62
Communities and the Prevention of Crime and Violence in Douala, Cameroon Christophe Sados Touonsi Open Access Download PDF	78
“There is no Justice in Guinea-Bissau” Strategies of Preventing, Handling, and Aggravating Conflicts in Local Dispute Settlement Anne-Kristin Borszik Open Access Download PDF	98
A Lesson from China
Urban Violence and the Chinese State in the Post-Mao Reform Qin Shao Open Access Download PDF	118
Lessons Learnt from Latin America
Local Civil Society and the New Puzzle of Violence in Central America Heidrun Zinecker Open Access Download PDF	128
Meanings and Practices of Non-violence Lessons learned in the midst of the urban war in Comuna 13, Medellín Luz Amparo Sánchez Medina Open Access Download PDF	150
Integrated Urban Upgrading and Violence Prevention in San Salvador Results of an Impact Evaluation Joanna Kotowski Open Access Download PDF	164
Drug-Related Violence in Mexico: State and Community Responses. A qualitative Approach Veronica Martinez-Solares Open Access Download PDF	182
Youth and Gang Violence
Youth as Key Actors in the Social Prevention of Violence The Experience of Projóvenes II in El Salvador María Antonieta Beltrán and Wim Savenije Open Access Download PDF	202
Overcoming the Invisible Boundaries of an Informal Neighborhood: A Youth Initiative in Itagüi, Colombia Leiman Julieth Sánchez Betancur and Carlos Andrés Restrepo Arango Open Access Download PDF	222
Targeting Adolescence Vandalism in a Refugee Camp A Community-Based Initiative from Talbiyeh Camp, Jordan Fatima M. Al-Nammari Open Access Download PDF	234
Alternative Approaches to Combat Urban Violence
Religious Procession as a Mediator for Social Intimacy: Building Communal Harmony in Dharavi after the 1992 Mumbai Riot Reza Masoudi Nejad Open Access Download PDF	268
Violence and the Enchantment of Everyday Life in Johannesburg: Preliminary Insights Obvious Katsaura Open Access Download PDF	280
Embracing the Complexity of Community Safety Challenges The STS Methodology to reduce violence in Khayelitsha and Johannesburg Barbara Holtmann and Emma Holtmann Open Access Download PDF	294
The Contributors Open Access Download PDF	307

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 314
Keywords: Violence; Peacebuilding; Safety; Community; GLOBUS; City; Urban Studies; Sociology of Crime; Sociology

eBook

Published: October 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839429907