Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Violence

Citation:

Diane E. Davis. 2012. Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Violence. USAid. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Publisher's Version
Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Violence

Abstract:

While the sources and forms of social and political violence have been extensively
examined, the ways ordinary people along with their neighbors and officials cope
with chronic urban violence have earned far less attention. This eight-case study of
cities suffering from a history of violence explores this latter phenomenon, which we
call resilience. We define resilience as those acts intended to restore or create effectively
functioning community-level activities, institutions, and spaces in which the perpetrators
of violence are marginalized and perhaps even eliminated.
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