The two-day online conference will reflect on the prospects of effective implementation of relevant evidence-based violence prevention interventions in South Africa.
SaferSpaces Online Conference | Preventing Violence in South Africa: From policy making to evidence-based implementation, 7-8 June 2021
https://t.co/nr5Zb7m5NE via @safer_spaces
SaferSpaces Webinar | Private Security’s Lines of Flight, 4 June 2021, 12:45-14:00
Join us this Friday as Dr Julie Berg and Prof Clifford Shearing explore how private security has adapted in responding to novel harmscapes. https://t.co/JgAcvi06LY via @safer_spaces
SaferSpaces Webinar | Alcohol and Violence Prevention: Steps and Approaches towards Alcohol Harms Reduction, Friday 28 May 2021, 12:45-14:00 https://t.co/ras996YsTT via @safer_spaces
Upcoming webinar tomorrow! This webinar will feature 2 of the authors of the Panel of Experts Report on Policing and Crowd Management. With presentations focusing on the challenges of public order policing, and the use of less lethal weapons and ammunition in crowd contexts.
SaferSpaces Webinar | From Tatane to Ntumba: The Challenges of Public Order Policing in South Africa, Friday, 23 April 2021 - 12:45 pm to 2pm https://t.co/MBL3u57pbi via @safer_spaces
Panellists:
Guy Lamb, Safety and Violence Initiative, UCT / Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University
Lizette Lancaster, Crimehub, Institute for Security Studies
SaferSpaces Webinar | Crime Stats and the Implications for Safety in South Africa, 26 February 2021, 12:45 - 14:00. RSVP to [email protected] https://t.co/CLMbIaGXJ4 via @safer_spaces
SaferSpaces Webinar | Designing in Community Safety, Friday, 5 February 2021, from 12.45pm to 2pm
Please RSVP to [email protected] https://t.co/HbwlCZjzYo via @safer_spaces
Webinar | Swipe right for safety: Smartphone tech for community well-being, Friday, 29 January 2021, from 12.45pm to 2pm on MS Teams.
Please RSVP to [email protected] https://t.co/xEMf5mOnBK via
@safer_spaces
African governments are quietly tightening laws to restrict social media @KarenAllenIntl for ISS Today on trends after Uganda’s election https://t.co/2Tlf3bl2AV
SaVI Director, Dr Guy Lamb, told News24 that acts of vigilantism have been an issue in South Africa for a long time and it indicated that communities did not trust the police to do their job. https://t.co/H2xqfcKuVJ via @news24
Shout out today to Guy Lamb for his work in South Africa and more broadly on #SALW, understanding and responding to violence, and promoting safety @UCTSaVI https://t.co/ofzPvI3x5P
Employing more police doesn't necessarily result in less crime, according to Dr Guy Lamb, former director of the Safety and Violence Initiative at the University of Cape Town. https://t.co/JfV2e7UoVC
Police seize a large number of stolen firearms in Cape Town. Dr Guy Lamb, Director of the Safety and Violence Initiative at the University of Cape Town, said issues driving violent crime included access to illegal firearms and ammunition. https://t.co/whMAwwRgYv
Dr Guy Lamb: If not been for the national socioeconomic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the corruption scandals associated with funding for relief measures, there most likely would have been a public outcry following the release of the 2019/2020 crime stats.
Blog | The coming crime catastrophe: The 2019/20 crime stats and post-COVID19 violence prevention in South Africa, by Guy Lamb @UCTSaVI https://t.co/SmTSNZdVAg via @safer_spaces
SaVI Director, Dr Guy Lamb: “Sadly, Cape Town is facing a violent crime crisis and it has not emerged out of nowhere. It has taken place over the years and dates far back to apartheid and colonial times” https://t.co/8sVJ6XLmzI
Katharine Hall, a senior researcher at the Children’s Institute (UCT), noted in a supporting affidavit to the amicus curiae submissions, six million of South Africa’s 20 million children live in households with no employed adults. https://t.co/vosbfB4de5
SaVI steering committee member, Andrew Nicol, says there has been a two-thirds reduction in gunshot victim admissions since the start of the lockdown.https://t.co/KII8h6Dap3 via @CapeTalk