Urban peace-building in divided societies : Belfast and Johannesburg

Urban Peacebuilding in Divided Societies explores the effects of urban policy and planning in the management of ethnic conflict in strife-torn societies, focusing on the cases of Belfast and Johannesburg. It combines perspectives from urban geography, political science, social psychology, and urban planning to study the relationship between ethnic ideologies and the urban strategies that affect ethnic territoriality in the form of urban land use, housing, economic development, services, and citizen involvement. The book contrasts Belfast, embedded within an uncertain shift from conflict to political settlement, with Johannesburg, engaged in post-resolution reconciliation, to analyze, along different points of societal transition, the contributions of urban policymaking to peacemaking and peacebuilding. It describes the differing rolesobstructive or facilitativethat contested cities can play amidst broader peacemaking efforts, consistent with Bollens contention that there are lessons in urban peacebuilding for constructing mutually tolerable living environments at the regional and national levels. Effectively, cities (and urban policies) are the locus for operationalizing national ideologies of ethnic coexistence. } Urban Peacebuilding in Divided Societies explores the effects of urban policy and planning in the management of ethnic conflict in strife-torn societies, focusing on the cases of Belfast and Johannesburg. It combines perspectives from urban geography, political science, social psychology, and urban planning to study the relationship between ethnic ideologies and the urban strategies that affect ethnic territoriality in the form of urban land use, housing, economic development, services, and citizen involvement. The book contrasts Belfast, embedded within an uncertain shift from conflict to political settlement, with Johannesburg, engaged in post-resolution reconciliation, to analyze, along different points of societal transition, the contributions of urban policymaking to peacemaking and peacebuilding. It describes the differing rolesobstructive or facilitativethat contested cities can play amidst broader peacemaking efforts, consistent with Bollens contention that there are lessons in urban peacebuilding for constructing mutually tolerable living environments at the regional and national levels. Effectively, cities (and urban policies) are the locus for operationalizing national ideologies of ethnic coexistence.} The Book Contrasts Belfast, Embedded Within An Uncertain Shift From Conflict To Political Settlement, With Johannesburg, Engaged In Postresolution Reconciliation, To Analyze, Along Different Points Of Societal Transition, The Contributions Of Urban Policymaking To Peacemaking And Peace-building. It Describes The Differing Roles - Obstructive Or Facilitative - That Contested Cities Can Play Amidst Broader Peace Efforts, Consistent With Bollens's Contention That There Are Lessons In Urban Peace-building For Constructing Mutually Tolerable Living Environments At The Regional And National Levels. Cities (and Urban Policies) Are An Essential Locus For Operationalizing Visions Of Postconflict Ethnic Coexistence.--book Jacket. Urban Arenas Of Nationalistic Conflict -- Contested Cities -- Cities And Intrastate Conflict -- Managing City Conflict -- Prospects And Limits Of Urban Peace-building -- Operationalizing Peace -- Building Or Impeding Urban Peace -- Belfast And Johannesburg -- Research Methods -- Belfast: At The Sharp Edge -- The Sectarian City -- Shifting Demographics -- Political Direct Rule, -- Urban Policymakers -- Territoriality And Community -- British Urban Policy Since 1972 -- Pursuing Stability Through Neutrality -- Neutral Means, Unequal Outcomes -- Belfast And Peace -- Seeking Peace In Belfast -- Belfast: Contributor Or Burden To Peace? -- Johannesburg: A Delicate Balancing Of Time -- Urban Policy In Transition -- Planned Geographies -- Political Control -- Transformative Urban Policy -- Temporality And Urban Policy Choices -- Rebuilding Government Legitimacy -- The Dual Faces Of Post-apartheid Planning -- Organizing For Peace-building -- Johannesburg And Peace -- Key Interventions In Peace-building -- Race, Class, And Sustainability -- Urban Peace-building -- Policy, Polarization, And Peace -- Stabilizing And Reconstructing Contested Cities -- The Challenge Of Urban Peace. Scott A. Bollens. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 309-330) And Index. This book explores the effect of urban policy in the management of ethnic conflict in strife-torn societies. It gives perspectives from geography, political science, social psychology and planning to study the relationship between ideologies and the strategies in the form of land use, housing, economic development, services and citizen involvement