Peace in Our Cities
🏙️ Preserving lives and helping cities thrive by reducing and preventing urban violence.
Secretariat: Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, @nyucic.bsky.social, @stanleycenter.org. #PiOC
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- Reposted by Peace in Our Cities🤔 How can multi-sector & multilevel partnerships build more resilient cities? 🌟 On January 26, @sdg16.plus, @internationalidea.bsky.social, + @peaceinourcities.org will host a virtual event to highlight partnerships that fostered trust, built shared purpose, & delivered results.
- 💡 A finales de julio de 2025, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y el gobierno municipal de Rosario se reunieron en un intercambio de conocimiento para avanzar en la prevención de la violencia mediante la mediación comunitaria y la colaboración entre múltiples partes interesadas.
- 📥 Informe completo: buff.ly/b9hJjTt
- 💡 In late July 2025, civil society organizations + the city gov't of Rosario, came together in a tailored peer exchange that revealed key insights into advancing violence prevention through community mediation + multistakeholder collaboration. 📥 Full report: buff.ly/b9hJjTt
- 🌍 In 2025, #PiOC brought together gov'ts, civil society, & researchers to share strategies on reducing violence & strengthening peace. 🌟 In 2026, we look forward to building on the momentum for another impactful year working in partnership with all of you. 2025 recap ⤵️ buff.ly/w9ce3UW
- 🗞️ A recent Oil City News article shares how the city of Casper is working to implement changes into its public safety programs and policies following a city exchange with the city of Edmonton, Canada, organized by PiOC.
- 🙌 @peaceinourcities.org is happy to see the positive impact that our programs can have on our city members, and we look forward to seeing Casper implementing these changes. Read more: 🔗 buff.ly/SlFjVh6 🔗 buff.ly/UMnoARw
- 🌟Please welcome our newest member, Vox Populi Ecuador Foundation, to the #PeaceinOurCities network! 💡 Their work focuses on developing projects that address the needs of marginalized populations in Quito, Ecuador 🇪🇨, & prioritizing the promotion of human rights. ➕ buff.ly/5S4jZc0
- 🌟Please welcome our newest member, AfroReggae, to the #PeaceinOurCities network! 📲 AfroReggae’s mission is to transform lives through inclusion, culture, and innovation, using digital culture as a tool to create opportunities and combat prejudice. Learn more: buff.ly/EEFKbUz
- 📰 Our latest newsletter is out now! Highlights include: 🔦 New members spotlight. 📑 Rosario City Exchange Report. 🖥️ #PiOC Mano Dura Webinar. Check it out ⤵️ buff.ly/5S4jZc0 Subscribe to receive regular updates ⤵️ buff.ly/B6qNyKy #PeaceinOurCities #SaferCities
- 📣 Happening now! Join us for a conversation with Enrique Betancourt, author of “Tackling the False Dilemma: A Communications Guide for Advancing Balanced and Effective Public Safety Approaches,” and @carolinaricardo.bsky.social, Executive Director of @soudapaz.bsky.social.
- 💬 They’ll discuss how policymakers and local leaders can respond to demands for heavy-handed repressive security approaches, with balanced, human-rights-based policies that offer long-term solutions for public safety challenges. 🎥 Tune in live: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #PeaceinOurCities #PiOC
- 🌐 “Right now, there is growing popularity or demand for Mono Dura, or tough-on-crime approaches, particularly in the Western hemisphere. Members of Peace in Our Cities have routinely raised concerns about the increased demand for tough-on-crime approaches to public security challenges.
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View full thread“[A peace] operation will be much more efficient if we first have a large, robust research layer of organized crime.”—@carolinaricardo.bsky.social, Executive Director of @soudapaz.bsky.social, emphasizes the importance of sustainable peace, communication, and data. Live: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- On #HumanRightsDay, how can we reflect on our own agency to build safer, more peaceful, and more just cities—grounded in the inherent rights of all people? PiOC Secretariat member Jai-Ayla Sutherland highlights insights on how city-led action can confront inequality + identity-based violence. 🏙️
- These are harms rooted in the social and environmental systems that shape daily life in urban spaces. 🔍 While violence concentrates unevenly across cities, solutions exist—from public health approaches to balanced strategies linking prevention & accountability.
- 📖 Read the full blog: buff.ly/wHHS1kx 🔗 Freely access the full volume through ibmv.org or @springernature.com: buff.ly/VwRwiOQ.
- 📣 Happening tomorrow! Join us for the virtual launch of PiOC’s comms guide “Tackling the False Dilemma of Mano Dura: Communications Guidance for Balanced and Effective Public Safety Approaches.”
- 💬 Enrique Betancourt, author of the guide, & Instituto Sou da Paz's Carolina Ricardo, will explore how policymakers & local leaders can respond to demands for heavy-handed repressive security approaches, w/ balanced, human-rights-based policies that offer solutions for public safety challenges.
- 📣 ¡Esta semana! Únase a nosotros en el lanzamiento virtual de la guía de comunicación de PiOC «Abordar el falso dilema de la mano dura: orientación sobre comunicación para enfoques equilibrados y eficaces en materia de seguridad pública».
- 💬 Enrique Betancourt, autor de la guía, y @carolinaricardo.bsky.social (@soudapaz.bsky.social) debatirán cómo los responsables políticos y los líderes locales pueden responder a las demandas de enfoques de seguridad represivos y severos con políticas equilibradas y basadas en los derechos humanos.
- 📣 Acontece em três dias! Junte-se a nós no lançamento virtual do guia de comunicação do PiOC «Abordando o falso dilema da mão pesada: orientação sobre comunicação para abordagens equilibradas e eficazes em matéria de segurança pública».
- Enrique Betancourt e @carolinaricardo.bsky.social debaterão como os políticos e os líderes locais podem responder às exigências de abordagens repressivas e severas em matéria de segurança com políticas equilibradas e baseadas nos direitos humanos que ofereçam soluções a longo prazo.
- 🇧🇷 This week, @luisaportugal.bsky.social represented #PeaceinOurCities during the XXX Cúpula de #Mercocidades in Niterói, Brazil.
- She joined Niterói's Secretary of Public Order, Gilson Chagas; the former Secretary of Security of Bogotá, Hugo Acero; the mayor of Godoy Cruz, Diego Costarelli; and IDB's division chief - Citizen Security, Eduardo Vergara.
- 🏙️ They discussed how to build safer cities and share success cases from Latin America, in a conversation moderated by Alberto Kopittke, Executive Director of Instituto Cidade Segura.
- 💡 Luisa highlighted successful strategies implemented by #PiOC members, including Niterói 🇧🇷; Rosário 🇦🇷; Cali 🇨🇴; and Pelotas 🇧🇷; who have all achieved significant reductions in levels of violence through the design & implementation of balanced, evidence-based, & integrated public safety interventions.
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- 🚀 Junte-se a nós no lançamento do guia de comunicação de Enrique Betancourt, «Abordar o falso dilema: um guia de comunicação para promover abordagens equilibradas e eficazes em matéria de segurança pública»!
- Este guia: 📝 Oferece orientações específicas sobre como os políticos e líderes locais podem responder às exigências de abordagens duras nas políticas de segurança pública. 💡 Fornece material de apoio para aqueles que buscam soluções equilibradas e de longo prazo para a redução da violência.
- @carolinaricardo.bsky.social contribuirá para o debate com uma reflexão sobre as conversas dominantes em torno da segurança pública e o trabalho que o Sou da Paz está realizando para contrariar as narrativas predominantes que se baseiam principalmente em respostas duras contra a criminalidade.
- 🚀 ¡Acompáñenos en el lanzamiento de la guía de comunicación de Enrique Betancourt, «Abordar el falso dilema: una guía de comunicación para promover enfoques equilibrados y eficaces en materia de seguridad pública»!
- Esta guía: 📝 Ofrece orientación específica sobre cómo los responsables políticos y los líderes locales pueden responder a las demandas de enfoques de mano dura en las políticas de seguridad pública.
- 💡 Proporciona material de apoyo para quienes buscan soluciones equilibradas y a largo plazo para la reducción y prevención de la violencia.
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View full thread...y el trabajo que Sou da Paz está realizando para contrarrestar las narrativas predominantes que se basan principalmente en respuestas de mano dura contra la delincuencia. ¡Reserve su plaza ahora! ⤵️ buff.ly/HxFvL25 #PeaceinOurCities #PiOC #SafeCities
- 🚀 Junte-se a nós no lançamento virtual de “Enfrentando o falso dilema: um guia de comunicação para promover abordagens equilibradas e eficazes de segurança pública”, um guia de comunicação do PiOC escrito por Enrique Betancourt.
- Enrique Betancourt e @carolinaricardo.bsky.social (@soudapaz.bsky.social) iscutirão como os formuladores de políticas públicas e líderes locais podem responder às demandas por abordagens de segurança repressivas e severas, com políticas equilibradas e baseadas nos direitos humanos.
- Inscreva-se agora para esta discussão crucial! ⤵️ buff.ly/HxFvL25 #PeaceinOurCities #PiOC #SafeCities
- 🚀 Join us for the launch of Enrique Betancourt’s communications guide, “Tackling the False Dilemma: A Communications Guide for Advancing Balanced and Effective Public Safety Approaches!”
- 🚀 Únase a nosotros en el lanzamiento virtual de «Afrontar el falso dilema: guía de comunicación para promover enfoques equilibrados y eficaces en materia de seguridad pública», una guía de comunicación de PiOC redactada por Enrique Betancourt.
- 📊 Enrique Betancourt y @carolinaricardo.bsky.social (@soudapaz.bsky.social), debatirán cómo los responsables políticos y los líderes locales pueden responder a las demandas de enfoques de seguridad represivos y severos con políticas equilibradas...
- ...y basadas en los derechos humanos que ofrezcan soluciones a largo plazo para los retos de seguridad pública. ## ¡Inscríbase ahora en este debate crucial! ⤵️ buff.ly/HxFvL25 #PeaceinOurCities #PiOC #SafeCities
