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Practitioner – Vanessa Barolsky

Vanessa Barolsky – Practitioners

Vanessa Barolsky
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Organisation
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)

Provinces
Gauteng, Western Cape

Joined on
30 Nov 2014

My motivation to join SaferSpaces:
I have conducted research on political and criminal violence as well as policing and trust in the justice system over a number of years, including a period working at the civilian Secretariat for Police. Currently I'm leading a project for the Canadian funder International Development Research Centre (IDRC) looking at the role of social cohesion in preventing violence.
I'm working in these sectors:
Research / Academia
I'm specialising in these topics:
Policing, Prevention concepts
Resources published
  • Social Cohesion: Missing link to prevent violence in poor and inequitable countries? 23 Jun 2016
  • Is social cohesion the missing link in preventing violence? 06 May 2016
    • Research published
  • Social cohesion: The missing link in overcoming violence and inequality? 21 Apr 2015
    • Blog published
  • The missing link: does social cohesion prevent violence? 08 Mar 2016