• Reducing urban violence in the global south 

  Salahub, Jennifer Erin; Gottsbacher, Markus; de Boer, John; D., Mayssam (RoutledgeIDRC, 2019-05-31)

  Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities. Drawing on the findings of ...
• Social theories of urban violence in the Global South : towards safe and inclusive cities 

  Salahub, Jennifer Erin; Gottsbacher, Markus; de Boer, John (RoutledgeIDRC, 2018-04)

  Investing in research from the ground up, based on local realities and local understandings, the chapters in this book reflect research undertaken in dozens of cities in Latin America, Sub- Saharan Africa, and South Asia. ...
• Política en la violencia y lo político de la seguridad 

  Carrion Mena, Fernando (FLACSO Ecuador, 2018-02)

  Es imprescindible abrir el debate de un tema de crucial importancia en al ámbito de la (in) seguridad ciudadana: las relaciones dialécticas entre violencia y política, expresadas en el hecho de que la violencia ha producido ...
• Preventing crime and violence through work and wages : the impact of the Community Work Programme 

  Bruce, David (Institute for Security Studies, 2015-06)

  The article offers an analysis of the potential impact of the Community Work Programme (CWP) on crime and violence. The main forms of crime or violence referred to in this article are property crime and intimate partner ...
• Working for safety : the Community Work Programme as a tool for preventing violence and building safer communities 

  Bruce, David (Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), Braamfontein, ZA, 2015-10)

  At sites where violence and crime have been identified as key concerns by the community, the CWP has tried to find ways of addressing these factors. At some sites the CWP has become a vehicle for awareness-raising and ...
• The good, the better and the best : how the Community Work Programme can reach its full potential as an instrument of community development in South Africa 

  Bruce, David (Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), Braamfontein, ZA, 2015-10)

  The CWP was established in response to the structural nature of unemployment, as an employment safety net beneficial to community development. Management of CWP sites includes a wide range of tasks such as ensuring that ...
• Press release 

  Governance and Development Institute (Governance and Development Institute, Blantyre, MW, 2013-11)

  Rural women remain disempowered, have no access to meaningful economic empowerment, few of them own property, and due to these disadvantaged positions, are targets for gender based violence. Article 14 of the Convention ...
• Political parties brief 

  Governance and Development Institute (Governance and Development Institute, Blantyre, MW, 2013)

  Focusing on the strategies that political parties have, or are putting in place to promote young women’s political participation in Malawi, the findings reflect that parties do not have organized strategies for promoting ...
• Policy brief on young women's political participation 

  Governance and Development Institute (Governance and Development Institute, Blantyre, MW, 2013)

  Sections 20 and 24 of the Republican Constitution of Malawi are to the effect that rural women should not be discriminated against. Key findings dictate the need for the Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development ...
• Young women in political participation in Africa : final technical report 

  Kabwato, Linda K. (Governance and Development Institute, Blantyre, MW, 2013-08)

  The research explored how political parties and women in Parliament are supporting young women’s political participation, as well as the extent to which the state is implementing Article 14 of the Convention on the Elimination ...
• Women's Political Participation / Center of Arab Women for the Training and Research (CAWTAR) 

  Center of Arab Women for the Training and Research (Center of Arab Women for the Training and Research (CAWTAR), Tunis, TN, 2013)
• Formes traditionnelles, formes nouvelles de l'engagement politique des jeunes femmes en contexte de transition : le cas de la Tunisie; résumé exécutif 

  Ben Salem, Maryam (Centre de la Femme Arabe pour la Formation et la Recherche (CAWTAR), Tunis, TN, 2013-07)
• Traditional and new forms of young women's political engagement in a transitional context : Tunisia as example; executive summary 

  Ben Salem, Maryam (Center of Arab Women for the Training and Research (CAWTAR), Tunis, TN, 2013-07)

  Forty-one interviews conducted with a diverse panel of women and men, enabled us to explore contrasting relations between politically active men and women, and as well, between politically active young women and older ...
• Traditional and new forms of young women’s political engagement in a transitional context : Tunisia as example 

  Ben Salem, Maryam (Center of Arab Women for the Training and Research (CAWTAR), Tunis, TN, 2013-07)

  The limits of “façade feminism” are reflected in the current regime’s rejection of ensuring full equality between men and women. Careful study of figures shown by the regime stressing its great modernity, clearly reveal ...
• Young women and political participation : institutional and informal mobilization paving the way to future actions; final technical report 

  Center of Arab Women for the Training and Research (Center of Arab Women for the Training and Research (CAWTAR), Tunis, TN, 2013)

  The research analyzed modalities of young women’s engagement in politics in Tunisia and conditions for sustainability commitments over time. The research consists of a comparison between new and traditional forms of political ...
• Young women political participation in Kenya : a study on the experiences and challenges of young women in political engagement 

  Mwatha, Regina G.; Mbugua, Grace; Murunga, Godwin (Women's Empowerment Link (WEL), Nairobi, KE, 2014)

  This research has been undertaken as a collaborative effort between Women's Empowerment Link (WEL), a nongovernmental organization, the Gender Roundtable Series (GRS) formerly based at Kenyatta University and the National ...
• Young women's political participation in Kenya : a study on the experiences and challenges of young women in political engagement; technical report 

  Mwatha, Regina; Mbugua, Grace; Murunga, Godwin (Women's Empowerment Link, Nairobi, KE, 2013)

  Young women face many barriers in their pursuit of active political roles: this research established that masculinity and the patriarchal nature of politics, lack of resources, and lack of support for young women who seek ...
• Violencia y seguridad ciudadana : referencias bibliograficas 

  Carrión M., Fernando; Ron Bazurto, Isabel (FLACSO Ecuador, 2012)
• Violence Prevention Alliance, issue brief no. 1, octubre 2011 / Agentes de paz – entendiendo buenas prácticas para la prevención y la reducción de la violencia en Jamaica 

  University of the West Indies. Violence Prevention Alliance Jamaica (Violence Prevention Alliance Jamaica, University of the West Indies, Kingston, JM, 2011)
• Violence Prevention Alliance, issue brief no. 1, October 2011 / Peace brokers – understanding good practice in violence prevention and reduction in Jamaica 

  University of the West Indies. Violence Prevention Alliance Jamaica (Violence Prevention Alliance Jamaica, University of the West Indies, Kingston, JM, 2011)

  This Issue Brief for the Violence Prevention Alliance draws attention to underreported success stories of organizations working to reduce and prevent violence in Jamaica, where youth are vastly overrepresented in official ...

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