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🌍 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 ⤵️
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📰 Our latest newsletter is out now!
Highlights include:
🔦 New members spotlight.
📑 Rosario City Exchange Report.
🖥️ #PiOC Mano Dura Webinar.
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💬 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.
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💡 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.
...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! ⤵️
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Inscreva-se agora para esta discussão crucial! ⤵️
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...y basadas en los derechos humanos que ofrezcan soluciones a largo plazo para los retos de seguridad pública.
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¡Inscríbase ahora en este debate crucial! ⤵️
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Register now for this crucial discussion! ⤵️
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🏠 Local examples of how partners are addressing violence challenges in their communities.
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Day 2 🧵
The first two days of the Peace in Our Cities exchange between Bristol, UK, and Oakland, California, US, featured site visits in Bristol, meetings with local officials, and opportunities to strengthen connections between PiOC members.
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Text: "Violence Interruption and Mediation: Insights about Models and Adaptations Across Contexts." on blue background with airplane. Webinar info: "August 27, 2025; Virtual; RSVP NOW! #PeaceInOurCities." PIOC logo in white on top right.
🤔 How can we use community-based approaches to prevent violence?
💡 Hear from Fundación Alvaralice, Foro Regional Rosario, and Dignity Practices on effective examples using this approach and their insights related to the discussion.
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🤔 How can we create #SaferCities?
Days 1-3 of our City Exchanges program explored practical tools for preventing violence and mediating conflict. 🔍
As Betina Zubeldía, Madres Territoriales Nacional's President, emphasized on Day 1, “Everyone, everywhere, we all have to be mediators.”
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Promotional graphic for Peace in Our Cities featuring the title “Rosario, Argentina: An Example of a Targeted and Integrated Approach.” The graphic includes an aerial view of a cityscape, the Peace in Our Cities and Kroc School logos, and the text “May 2025” with a call-to-action button labeled “READ NOW!” in bold text.
🇦🇷 Rosario, Argentina, has significantly improved citizen security through integrated, multi-sectoral, and highly coordinated efforts, tailored and targeted within specific neighborhoods.
Learn how the city was able to achieve that 👇
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🚨 In his new article for @unidir.org, former #PiOC colleague Alfredo Malaret Baldo raises the alarm that we might be neglecting considerations for the cascading effects and vicious cycles of violence—and how we can fix this.
Read today: 🔗 buff.ly/WD6zryr
Logo of Brazil’s Forum of Public Safety (Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública) with text about its mission to treat public security as a social right since 2006.
❓ #DYK: The Legend Kenya is addressing conflict mitigation, trauma, healing, & forgiveness through non-violent methods.
🤝 By joining the #PiOC network, The Legend Kenya can connect with others to develop more ways to reduce violence.
🌐 Together, we can make peace a reality for generations to come.
Logo of Fixed Africa with a quote from Managing Director Emma de Villiers about joining the Peace in Our Cities network to advance best practices in local government consulting.
🌟 “Fixed is proud to join the Peace in Our Cities family. The connections & learning that the network offers equip Fixed to continuously deliver global best practices in our consulting work with local governments"—Emma de Villiers, Managing Director.
🙌 Welcome to the #PiOC network!
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Logo of Somali Public Agenda (SPA) with a pledge quote about collaborating to reduce urban violence through innovation.
🌍 The Somali Public Agenda (SPA) joins #PeaceinOurCities!
🤝 By signing this pledge, SPA can collaborate with other organizations and municipalities committed to innovating and reducing violence in their communities.
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Learn more about their work & CEO Martin Bisp’s reflections from our #PIOC Nairobi workshop!
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Logos for PiOC and Inter-American Development Bank at the top. Text in all caps: "Safe Cities Webinar." 21 de maio de 2025; 1;00 p.m. (AST). Virtual. RSVP Agora! #PeaceInOurCities
❓ #DYK: Safe Cities é uma ferramenta digital para melhorar a eficácia dos governos locais na promoção da segurança pública.
💡 Saiba mais no nosso próximo webinar em parceria com o Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento:
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Logos for PiOC and Inter-American Development Bank at the top. Text in all caps: "Safe Cities Webinar." 21 de mayo de 2025; 1;00 p.m. (AST). Virtual. RSVP Ahora! #PeaceInOurCities
❓ #DYK: ¡Safe Cities es una herramienta digital para mejorar la eficacia de los gobiernos locales en el ámbito de la seguridad ciudadana!
💡 Aprende más en nuestro próximo webinar en colaboración con el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo:
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💪 With each addition, our network grows stronger and better equipped to reduce severe forms of violence globally.
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