Somerville College’s British Academy Research Fellow Dr Ammar Azzouz is organising a special panel event to celebrate the launch of Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered, an exciting new, multi-authored volume addressing global trends in mass urban-based violence and how to confront them.
The Book
Across the United Kingdom and around the world, people experience violence in cities not only through acts of physical harm but also through entrenched structural and social inequalities. Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered is an innovative new volume, offering fresh insights from global examples of how chronic and acute mass violence are related to one another, and how we, as individuals and institutions, can take steps to address the harm they cause to communities.
This volume directly exposes the fault lines that contribute to identity-based mass violence. Combining peer-reviewed analysis and lived testimony, this is not just an academic exercise, but a call to action that urges policymakers, public and private funders, academics, and practitioners to address and prevent violence in its many forms and commit to long-term transformation.
The Discussion
Please join us on the 20th of November at 5:30 for an inaugural reception and book launch to discuss this exciting new approach to an urgent global crisis. The conversation will feature:
- Insights on bringing together diverse disciplines of atrocity prevention, urban violence, and peacebuilding to better understand the scale and nature of why identity-based mass violence occurs, and the solution set in cities.
- The launch of a book born from community and care, featuring some of the global team that made it possible, and the stories, wisdom, and courage that shape its pages.
Come meet the co-editors and several contributors, hear unique testimony and practical examples of how evidence-based, innovative practice can reduce and prevent violence while shaping safer, more inclusive communities.