Understanding and Supporting Community Responses to Urban Violence Alys Willman PhD Social Cohesion amp Violence Prevention Team World Bank Perspectives from the Community How are people coping every day with violence ID: 458915
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VIOLENCE IN THE CITY
Understanding and Supporting Community Responses to Urban Violence
Alys Willman, PhDSocial Cohesion & Violence Prevention Team, World BankSlide2
Perspectives from the Community
How are people coping every day with violence?
What can we do to support positive coping strategies?Social Development Department
VIOLENCE IN THE CITY Social Development DepartmentSlide3
Violence affects everyone, but in different ways
Victimization rates (past year) ranged from
21% (Dili); 33% (Port-au-Prince); 39% (Fortaleza); 44% (Nairobi); 49% (Johannesburg)Youth (between 15-35 years old) accounted for 40-75 percent of victims in the five sites. Males were
only slightly more
likely to be victimized than
females (Haiti was an exception), but
more likely to be
perpetrators everywhere.
Social Development
Department
Social Development Department
VIOLENCE IN THE CITY Social Development DepartmentSlide4
Robbery and assault
were the most common forms of victimization in all sites (except Port-au-Prince)
Experiences of sexual violence were alarminglyhigh in some communities, and often occurred in public spaces. Different forms
of
violence are
inter-related.
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Many coping mechanisms further isolate residents, and erode trust
“
This is part of our lives… We don’t do anything… There was a day when a 10 year-old girl was murdered in broad daylight as if it were as normal as fetching a bucket of water, you understand? What do you think we said when the police came…?” (young male, Fortaleza)
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Particularly troubling is a tendency to rely on extra-legal sources of security
“Let me tell you about a situation… They caught someone, and he was lynched. This man had killed a man, but a brave seven year-old boy hit him in the back with a rock, enabling the community to catch him. The police drove by and looked at the scene.”
(Male, Cite Soleil, Haiti)
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The Built Environment Affects Mobility, Security and Trust
Poor infrastructure encourages situational crime
Lack of services increases vulnerability, feeds sense of social exclusion
People need safe spaces to come together, exert social control over violent behaviorSlide8
Recommendations
Rebuilding Trust
: Send clear signals that the situation will changeAddress the trend toward private securityAddressing Relationships Between different forms of ViolencePrevent domestic violence; take a life-cycle approach
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Recommendations
Supporting Community Capacities for Action
Upgrading infrastructure as a catalyzing forceImproving data collection and sharing to empower collective actionImproving Coordination of Policies and ProgramsConnecting national, state, municipal initiativesSupporting government-civil society coordination
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