SAFE COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA SOUTH

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SAFE COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA (SOUTH)

• Mohamed Seedat
• Institute for Social Health Sciences
• University of South Africa
• Shahnaaz Suffla
• MRC-UNISA Crime, Violence and Injury Lead
  Programme

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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

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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

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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)

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CENTRE FOR PEACE ACTION
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SAFE COMMUNITIES CRITERIA SYNERGISED WITH

• Community psychologys accent on
• Collaboration and partnerships
• Community participation and consultation
• Prevention
• Equity and justice
• Competencies (as opposed to deficiencies)

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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

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Prevention Research and Training