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dc.contributor.authorShahrokh, T
dc.contributor.authorWheeler, J
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africaen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-02T17:30:11Z
dc.date.available2014-04-02T17:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2014-04
dc.identifier.citationShahrokh, T. and Wheeler, J. (2014) Agency and Citizenship in a Context of Gender-based Violence, IDS Evidence Report 73, Brighton: IDSen_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/3727
dc.description.abstractThis pilot evaluation explores how citizenship and agency among social activists can be fostered in contexts of urban violence at the local level. Many initiatives and approaches to addressing violence, particularly urban violence, tend to focus on security sector reform and policing, infrastructure and livelihoods. The role of citizens living in slums, informal settlements and housing estates in acting to stop violence and promoting peaceful relations is less understood and supported. In the urban context, violence is often a means of getting access to scarce resources (such as employment), political power, as well as enforcing discriminatory social norms such as those surrounding gender, age, race, religion and ethnicity. The focus of this pilot is to understand how a sense of democratic citizenship and the ability to act on that citizenship at the local level can contribute to reducing different types of urban violence and promote security, and how becoming an activist against violence can contribute to constructing a sense of citizenship. The case study for this analysis is based in the informal settlement of Khayelitsha, Cape Town, and focuses on community activism against gender-based violence.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipUK Department for International Developmenten_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherIDSen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Evidence Report;73
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en_GB
dc.subjectGenderen_GB
dc.subjectSecurity and Conflicten_GB
dc.titleAgency and Citizenship in a Context of Gender-based Violenceen_GB
dc.typeSeries paper (IDS)en_GB
dc.rights.holderIDSen_GB
dc.identifier.agOT/11009/2/1/4/50 OT/11009/2/1/4/51


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