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Place and location matter fundamentally in shaping violence in our cities.

We have to break this cycle of violence and get in there early with our children, our youngest children, and valorize them, not stigmatize them.

There's wonderful work that's happening that I've been involved with in Kingston, Jamaica and right here in Rio, which is putting education, employment, recreation up front for these high-risk groups, and as a result, we're seeing violence going down in their communities.

If I have one single message for you, it's this: There is nothing inevitable about lethal violence, and we can make our cities safer.

Folks, we have the opportunity of a lifetime to drop homicidal violence in half within our lifetime.

Mary and her friends forced the ruling political party not to use violence during the election, and saved hundreds of lives.

Rising tensions culminated in the worst day of violence on February 20, which became known as Bloody Thursday.

If the men showed the ideal of the warrior, then the women showed the implications of such violence.

This violence, this brutality against black men has been going on for centuries.

This violence, this brutality, is really something that's part of our national psyche.

There was no violence.

So the police violence against them started to grow as well.

That will happen because women in Cairo made a decision to stand up and put themselves on the line, and talk about the degree of violence that is happening in Egypt, and were willing to be attacked and criticized.

The study found that gays in anti-gay communities had higher rates of heart disease, violence and suicide.

In 2006, when Congo held the first free national elections in its history, many observers thought that an end to violence in the region had finally come.

Throughout the world, and throughout conflict zones, this common culture shapes the intervener's understanding of the causes of violence as something that is primarily located in the national and international spheres.

To them, the violence they see is the consequence of tensions between President Kabila and various national opponents, and tensions between Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.

In addition, these international peacebuilders view local conflicts as simply the result of national and international tensions, insufficient state authority, and what they call the Congolese people's so-called inherent penchant for violence.

But let's dig deeper, into the other main sources of violence.

In Congo, continuing violence is motivated not only by the national and international causes but also by longstanding bottom-up agendas whose main instigators are villagers, traditional chiefs, community chiefs or ethnic leaders.

And since then, these local disputes over land and local power have fueled violence, and they have regularly jeopardized the national and international settlements.

And the result is that neither the internal resistance to the dominant ways of working nor the external shocks have managed to convince international actors that they should reevaluate their understanding of violence and intervention.

So to wrap up, the story I just told you is a story about how a dominant peacebuilding culture shapes the intervener's understanding of what the causes of violence are, how peace is made, and what interventions should accomplish.

Local conflicts fuel violence in most war and post-war environments, from Afghanistan to Sudan to Timor-Leste, and in the rare cases where there have been comprehensive, bottom-up peacebuilding initiatives, these attempts have been successful at making peace sustainable.

One of the best examples is the contrast between the relatively peaceful situation in Somaliland, which benefited from sustained grassroots peacebuilding initiatives, and the violence prevalent in the rest of Somalia, where peacebuilding has been mostly top-down.

So for instance, in the province of the Kivus, the Life and Peace Institute and its Congolese partners have set up inter-community forums to discuss the specifics of local conflicts over land, and these forums have found solutions to help manage the violence.

So these will not be magic wands, but because they take into account deeply rooted causes of the violence, they could definitely be game-changers.

It's violence against women.

Those include physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect; parental mental illness, substance dependence, incarceration; parental separation or divorce; or domestic violence.

This culture of violence takes these young people and puts them in a hostile environment, and the correctional officers pretty much allow any and everything to go on.

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