Security Matters! A seminar on urban security, fear and contemporary social order in the context of urban sustainability
April 22–23, 2010, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
CRISMART is co-hosting a seminar that will examine important contemporary issues in urban security, including:
Security and contemporary social order
Urban environment and crime
Inequality, social cohesion and offending
Mobility and security
Urban security in cities of Global-South
Crime prevention and urban governance
Register here http://www.kth.se/abe/konferenser/secmatters - FREE OF CHARGE
Graduate students may get academic credits for participating in the seminar. More information, see http://www.kth.se/abe/konferenser/secmatters
The seminar is primarily for researchers in Sweden but open to practitioners and students. The audience should include a variety of profiles, with researchers
(urban planners, geographers, criminologists, sociologists), police, and practitioners working directly with security at municipal levels in Sweden.
Confirmed speakers
Prof Nick Tilley, University College London, UK, Prof Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, UCLA, USA, Prof Robert Haining, Cambridge, UK, Prof Per Olof Wikström, Cambridge, UK, Prof Eric Stern, The Swedish National Defence College, Sweden, Reader Rachel Pain, Durham University, UK, Prof Bill Hillier, Architecture, University of London, UK, Prof Alba Zaluar, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Doctor Karina Landman, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Assoc Prof Bo Grönlund, Architecture, Denmark/Sweden
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