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SAFE COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA (SOUTH)
Mohamed SeedatInstitute for Social & Health Sciences
University of South Africa &
Shahnaaz Suffla MRC-UNISA Crime, Violence and Injury Lead
Programme
WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence and Injury Prevention Research and Training
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OVERVIEW
• Roots• Safe Community- Community Psychology
Synergy• CPA: Early Focus• Ten Years Later• Scope of Safecom Initiatives• Regional Safecom Conference• Challenges and Questions
WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence and Injury Prevention Research and Training
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ROOTED IN:
• Struggle to dismantle apartheid• Post-colonial skewed health systems• Quest for equity, accessibility & cultural
congruence• Critical community psychology (South Africa)• Search for appropriateness and relevance
WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence and Injury Prevention Research and Training
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INTRODUCED THROUGH…
• Formalisation of Eldorado Park Centre for Peace Action – 1st African Safecom
• 6th International Safe Communities Conference (Johannesburg, 15-18 October, 1997)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence and Injury Prevention Research and Training
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CENTRE FOR PEACE ACTION
WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence and Injury Prevention Research and Training
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SAFE COMMUNITIES CRITERIA SYNERGISED WITH…
• Community psychology’s accent on:– Collaboration and partnerships– Community participation and consultation– Prevention– Equity and justice– Competencies (as opposed to deficiencies)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence and Injury Prevention Research and Training
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ELDORADO PARK CENTRE FOR PEACE ACTION: EARLY FOCUS
• Injury registration• Youth development and after-school
mentorship• Early childhood development
and parenting• Schools-based safety initiatives.• Women and violence
WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence and Injury Prevention Research and Training