Urban Safety and Peacebuilding: New Perspectives on Sustaining Peace in the City

ISBN-13: 9780367786939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Achim Wennmann; Oliver J?tersonke

Opis

This volume draws together original research related to conceptual and practical advances on the interface of urban safety and peacebuilding.

Recenzje

"Urban Safety and Peacebuilding investigates how to sustain peace in the city, drawing attention to the community-level origins of building peace[...]The volume’s chapters represent original research from diverse perspectives – including architecture, criminology, social anthropology, political science and urban studies – demonstrating advances in urban safety and peacebuilding theory and practice."
- Kate Guo, Environment & Urbanization

Spis treści

Introduction: New Perspectives on Urban Safety and Peacebuilding, Achim Wennmann & Oliver Jütersonke  1. Understanding the Grammar of the City: Urban Safety and Peacebuilding Practice through a Semiotic Lens, Jonathan Luke Austin & Oliver Jütersonke  2. Urban Safety and Crime Prevention: Architectural Perspectives from Quito and Guayaquil, Cyntia López Rueda & Luna Cara  3. Gangland Terra Nullius: Violence, Territoriality, and the Bottom-up Spaces of Peacebuilding in Urban Nicaragua, Dennis Rodgers  4. Negotiating with Criminal Armed Groups: From Prejudice to Pragmatism, Hugo van den Eertwegh  5. 'Pay Up or Get Hurt': What Extortion Says About Urban Governance, and How it Might Be Curbed, Tuesday Reitano & Mark Shaw  6. Beyond the Usual Suspects: Gender Considerations at the Interface between Urban Safety and Peacebuilding, Jennifer Erin Salahub & Mayssam D. Zaaroura  7. The Intersection of Community Crime Prevention and Security Sector Reform: The Case of Jenin, Peter Homel & Nicolas Masson   8. Safe Services in Unsafe Cities: The ICRC and Urban Services in Situations of Armed Conflict and Urban Violence, Hugo Slim, Caroline Putman-Cramer, Evaristo De Pinho Oliveira & Rachel Banfield  9. Daring the Unconventional on the Pathways for Peace: On the 'How' of Sustaining Peace in the City, Achim Wennmann 

 

O autorze

Achim Wennmann is a senior researcher at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, and Executive Coordinator of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform.

Oliver Jütersonke is Head of Research for the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.