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Youth Members are an Achilles Heel of Haiti’s Gangs
Using young gang members to reduce gang power and rebuild communities. Continue reading
Youth Civic Engagement Really Works
A widely shared sentiment among many youth during the sixties and seventies was to withdraw from society and create new communities, invent new relationships, and find new meaning to the notion of self. Social and spiritual separation led to experiences … Continue reading
A World of Cities
Cultural, economic and social relations between cities are hastened by immigration, decentralization and increasing discomfort with national policies. We are increasingly becoming a world of cities, and less a world of nations. Continue reading
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Tagged "local governance", civic engagement, community development, community policing, community transformation, crime reduction, Cuba, culture economy, neighborhoods, new orleans, stakeholder engagement, sustainable development
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Engaging Youth to Reduce Crime
A new model builds youth civic engagement to fight crime The people who can best solve the problems of communities are usually members of those very communities. The problem is that they are rarely empowered or equipped to be effective … Continue reading
The Caribbean Institute for Sustainable Development 