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1 online resource (213 pages) |
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Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding Ser |
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Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes to contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction: New perspectives on urban safety and peacebuilding; Origins of the technical working group; Sustaining peace in the city; References; Chapter 1: Understanding the grammar of the city: Urban safety and peacebuilding practice through a semiotic lens; Introduction; Minimalist conceptualizations of urban safety and peacebuilding; Meaning-makingin the city: a semiotic clarification |
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Aggregation, politicization, and urban safety and peacebuilding practiceTowards an integrated approach: dangers, challenges, and opportunities; References; Chapter 2: Urban safety and crime prevention: Architectural perspectives from Quito and Guayaquil; Introduction; Conceptualizations of safety in urban and architectural design; Defence for safety; The relationship between psychological safety and defence for safety: safety and security; Quito and Guayaquil: the relation between architectural typology and urban safety; Quito's historic centre; Guayaquil's historic centre; Conclusions |
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Risk 3: negotiating with CAGs undermines the rule of law, disrespects victims, and incentivizes people to enter into crimePrecedents of negotiations with criminal armed groups; Criteria for engaging CAGs; When to engage; How to engage; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: 'Pay up or get hurt: 'What extortion says about urban governance, and how it might be curbed; Introduction; Why is extortion important to understand?; Money or power?; From political donations to protection money; How extortion evolves; The extortion life cycle |
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Preconditions for extortion: financial need and reservoirs of violenceDisruption and reconstitution; Institutional infiltration; Counter responses becoming new cycles; Responses to extortion; New strategies to counter extortion; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Beyond the usual suspects: Gender considerations at the interface between urban safety and peacebuilding; Introduction; Urban safety, peacebuilding, and gender; Understanding the risks of excluding gendered analysis; Integrating gender into the confluence of peacebuilding and urban safety practice |
| Summary |
This volume draws together original research related to conceptual and practical advances at the interface of urban safety and peacebuilding. The book reflects the advances in urban safety and peacebuilding to help address the rapidly increasing risk of conflict and insecurity in cities. Specifically, it draws on contributions to the Technical Working Group on the Confluence of Urban Safety and Peacebuilding Practice, an informal expert network co-facilitated by the United Nations Office at Geneva, UN-Habitat's Safer Cities Programme, and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. A focus on 'sustaining peace' serves as a framework for situating new policy responses against conflict, violence, and exclusion in the city, and for promoting a conversation across disciplinary and specialist silos. The volume thereby broadens the optic of peacebuilding practice beyond interstate and intrastate armed conflicts - and especially their aftermath - and reconnects it to the community-level origins of building peace. The analysis and practice presented here will remind those willing to work towards peaceful and inclusive cities that there are tried and tested approaches available, and a host of experts and practitioners ready to accompany those prepared to lead in their respective contexts. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of peacebuilding, urban studies, security studies, and international relations |
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ReferencesChapter 3: Gangland terra nullius: Violence, territoriality, and bottom-up spaces of peacebuilding in urban Nicaragua; Introduction; Gangland political economy; The variegated spaces of gangland; Gangland peacebuilding; Conclusion; Note; References; Chapter 4: Negotiating with criminal armed groups: From prejudice to pragmatism; Introduction; Assessing the risks to negotiate; Risk 1: entering into negotiations with CAGs will lend (political) legitimacy to them; Risk 2: negotiations will simply give CAGs time to (re) organize themselves |
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Women's urban safety and security |
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Print version record |
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Urban violence -- Developing countries
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Urban warfare -- Developing countries
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Public safety -- Developing countries
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Peace-building -- Developing countries
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Conflic management -- Developing countries
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Peace-building.
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HISTORY -- Military -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- International Security.
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architecture.
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cities.
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civil wars.
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conflict dynamics.
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insecurity.
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peacebuilding.
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UN Resolution 2282.
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urban safety.
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Peace-building
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Public safety
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Urban violence
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Urban warfare
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jutersonke, Oliver
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| ISBN |
9781351371353 |
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1351371355 |
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