Urban Violence and Insecurity: An Introductory Roadmap

Author(s)
Moser, C.
Publication language
English
Pages
14pp
Date published
01 Oct 2004
Publisher
Environment and Urbanization 16 N 2
Type
Articles
Keywords
Conflict, violence & peace, Urban

 

This issue of Environment and Urbanization seeks
to understand better the phenomenon of urban
violence and insecurity, to document the causes,
costs and consequences, and to highlight community-
based innovative solutions to the problem.
This introduction, therefore, has the challenge of
simultaneously reconciling these two aspects – it
needs to provide a basic roadmap of urban violence
as a background to the papers in this volume –
while also highlighting some of the concerns raised
in the articles themselves. These include new
insights into long-known violence-related problems,
as well as newer “cutting-edge” issues.