Title: Preventing Urban Conflict: A Thematic Paper for the United Nations-World Bank Study on Conflict Prevention
Abstract: The future of violent conflict is urban – because the future of humanity is urban. If we want to prevent future violent conflict, we must prevent violent urban conflict. This paper starts with an overview of urbanization trends and what is known about how these relate to risks of large-scale violence, identifying factors relating to demography, horizontal inequality and Figure 1: The relationship between urban violence and urban conflict governance as particularly significant. Next, we look at three obstacles to adapting ‘conflict prevention’ theory and practice to account for these insights: a) conceptual; b) data-related; c) capability- and mandate-related. Finally, we reflect on what forms the prevention of violent urban conflict might take, if these obstacles were addressed.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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