Annual Call for Projects 2004
International Events and Forced Evictions: A Focus on the Olympic Games
This project is coordinated by Ms Nathalie Mivelaz, of the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), in collaboration with the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS), the Institute of architecture of the University of Geneva, UN-HABITAT, the UN Special Advisor on Sport for Development and Peace, and several North-American universities. Based on the example of the Olympic Games, the goal of the research will be to examine the phenomena of forced evictions during the preparatory phase for the Games. The research team will...
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Annual Call for Projects 2004
Urban Violence and Security Policies: Local Public and Private Methods of Securing Urban Space
This project is coordinated by the professor Yves Pedrazzini of the Urban Sociology Laboratory (LaSUR) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), in collaboration with UN-HABITAT, and the Small Arms Survey of the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS). The project concerns urban planning policies in contexts of urban violence and insecurity. Building on case studies in Barcelona and Bogotá, the project will analyse private and public initiatives that are undertaken to respond to the security needs of citizens,...
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