Readings

Course readings.
SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	First Day of Class and Introduction to The Urban Development In Conflict Cities	No readings assigned
2	Development Challenges in Conflict Zones	Collier, Paul, et al. Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy. World Bank Publications, 2003, pp. 1–50 and 119–88. ISBN: 9780821354810. [Preview with Google Books] Humphreys, Macartan. "Economics and Violent Conflict." (PDF) Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (2003). Esser, Daniel. "The City as Arena, Hub and Prey—Patterns of Violence in Kabul and Karachi." Environment and Urbanization 16, no. 2 (2004): 31–38.
3	Development Challenges in Conflict Zones (cont.)	Student-led Discussion Readings Collier, Paul, et al. Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy. World Bank Publications, 2003, pp. 51–118. ISBN: 9780821354810. [Preview with Google Books] Collier, Paul, and Nicholas Sambanis. Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis. Vol. 1, Africa. World Bank Publications, 2005. ISBN: 9780821360477. [Preview with Google Books] Grünewald, François, and Éric Levron. Villes en guerre et Guerres en ville; pratiques humanitaires en questions. Karthala, 2004. ISBN: 9782845865570. [Preview with Google Books]
4	Violent Conflict Multiple Definitions	Winton, Ailsa. "Urban Violence: A Guide to the Literature." Environment and Urbanization 16, no. 2 (2004): 165–83. McIlwaine, Cathy. "Geography and Development: Violence and Crime as Development Issues." Progress in Human Geography 23, no. 3 (1999): 453–63. Moser, Caroline. "Urban Violence and Insecurity: An Introductory Roadmap." Environment & Urbanization 16, no. 2 (2004): 3–16. Davis, Diane E. "Beyond the Democracy-Development Mantra: The Challenges of Violence and Insecurity." REVISTA: Harvard Review of Latin America (2008): 3–7.
5	Violent Conflict Multiple Definitions (cont.)	Student-led Discussion Readings "Guns in the City: Urban Landscapes of Armed Violence." (PDF - 4.5MB) Small Arms Survey (2007): 162–256. Human security for an Urban Century, Selected Readings. Rodgers, Dennis, Jo Beall, and S M Ravi Kanbur, eds. "Urban Violence, Quality of Life, and the Future of Latin American Cities: The Dismal Record So Far, and the Search for New Analytical Frameworks to Sustain a Bias Towards Hope." In Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century: Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. ISBN: 9780230371545.
6	Military Perspective	Weizman, Eyal. "Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation." In Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics. Edited by Graham. Wiley-Blackwell, 2004, pp. 172–91. ISBN: 9781405115759. Graham, Stephen. "Postmortem City." City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 8, no. 2 (2004): 165–96. Lind, William S. "Understanding Fourth Generation War." Military Review 84, no. 5 (2004): 12. Hills, Alice. Future War in Cities: Rethinking a Liberal Dilemma. Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 9780714656021. [Preview with Google Books]
7	Military Perspective (cont.)	Student-led Discussion Readings Hahn, Robert F., and Bonnie Jezior. "Urban Warfare and the Urban Warfighter of 2025." Parameters 29, no. 2 (1999): 74–86. Weizman, Eyal. "Forensic Architecture Only The Criminal Can Solve The Crime." Radical Philosophy 164 (2010): 9–24. Graham, Stephen. Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism. Verso, 2010. ISBN: 9781844673155. Kilcullen, David. Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199737505. [Preview with Google Books]
8	Re-defining Urban Warfare	No readings assigned
9	Slum Wars	Rodgers, Dennis. "Slum Wars of the 21st Century: The New Geography of Conflict in Central America." Crisis States Research Centre Working Paper no. 10, 2007. Blake, Damion. "Shadowing the State: Violent Control and the Social Power of Jamaican Garrison Dons." Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research 8, no. 1 (2013): 56. Samper, Jose. "The Role of Urban Upgrading in Latin America as Warfare Tool against the 'Slums Wars'." Critical Planning: The Journal of the UCLA Urban Planning Journal 19th, no. 19 (2012). Recommended Weizman, Eyal. "Walking through Walls: Soldiers as Architects in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Radical Philosophy, no. 136 (2005): 8–22. Ruediger, Marco Aurélio. "The Rise and Fall of Brazil's Public Security Program: PRONASCI." Police Practice and Research 14, no. 4 (2013): 280–94.
10	Description of The Conditions of Conflict in The Selected City	No readings assigned
11	Gender and Conflict	Moser, Caroline O. N., and Fiona C. Clark. "Gender, Conflict, and Building Sustainable Peace: Recent Lessons from Latin America." Gender & Development 9, no. 3 (2001): 29–39. Wilding, Polly. "'New Violence': Silencing Women's Experiences in the Favelas of Brazil." Journal of Latin American Studies 42, no. 4 (2010): 719–47.
12	Gender and Conflict (cont.)	Student-led Discussion Readings Moser, Caroline O. N., and Fiona C. Clark. Victims, Perpetrators or Actors?: Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence. Zed Books, 2001. ISBN: 9781856498982. [Preview with Google Books] Spain, Daphne. "Gender and Urban Space." Annual Review of Sociology 40 (2014): 581–98. Buvinić, Mayra, Monica Das Gupta, et al. "Armed Conflict, Gender and Schooling." World Bank Economic Review 28, no. 2 (2013): 311–19. Hudson, Valerie M., Mary Caprioli, et al. "The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States." International Security 33, no. 3 (2009): 7–45.
13	Space and Urban Conflict	Taylor, Ralph B. Breaking Away from Broken Windows: Baltimore Neighborhoods and the Nationwide Fight against Crime, Grime, Fear, and Decline. Westview Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780813397580. Davis, Diane E. The Giuliani Factor: Crime, Zero Tolerance Policing and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Downtown Mexico City. In Gareth A. Jones, Public Sphere and Public Space in Mexico, Palgrave Macmillan. 2009. Cozens, Paul, and David Hillier. "Defensible Space." In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Edited by Editor-in-Chief: Susan J. Smith. Elsevier Science, 2012, pp. 300–306. ISBN: 9780080471631. [Preview with Google Books]
14	Space and Urban Conflict (cont.)	Student-led Discussion Readings Vaughan, Laura. "The Urban 'Ghetto': The Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Minorities." (PDF - 1.8MB) Space Syntax Laboratory (1997). Harcourt, Bernard E. Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing. Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780674004726. Downes, Alexander. The Holy Land Divided: Defending Partition as a Solution to Ethnic Wars. Security Studies 10, no. 4 (2001): 58–116. Kusno, Abidin. "Violence of Categories: Urban Design and the Making of Indonesian Modernity." In City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity (Comparative Urban and Community Research). Edited by Smith and Bender. Transaction Publishers, 2001, pp. 15–50. ISBN: 9780765808714.
15	Mapping Conflict	Sherman, Lawrence W., Gartin, et al. "Hot Spots Of Predatory Crime: Routine Activities And The Criminology Of Place." Criminology* 27, no. 1 (1989): 27–56. Moser, Caroline, and Cathy McIlwane. "Participatory Urban Appraisal and its Application for Research on Violence." Environment and Urbanization 11, no. 2 (1999): 203–26. Barnett, Thomas P. M. The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century. Berkley, 2005. ISBN: 9780425202395. [Preview with Google Books]
16	Mapping Conflict (cont.)	Student-led Discussion Readings Hagedorn, J. M. "Race Not Space: A Revisionist History Of Gangs In Chicago." Journal Of African American History 91, no. 2 (2006): 194–208. Eck, John, Spencer Chainey, et al. "Mapping Crime: Understanding Hot Spots." (PDF - 1.6MB) National Institute of Justice, 2005. Hirschfield, Alex, and Kate Bowers. Mapping and Analysing Crime Data : Lessons from Research and Practice. CRC Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780748409228.
17	Gangs	Manwaring, Max G. Street Gangs: The New Urban Insurgency. University of Michigan Library, 2005. Jütersonke, Oliver, Robert Muggah, et al. "Gangs, Urban Violence, and Security Interventions in Central America." Security Dialogue 40, no. 4–5 (2009): 373–97. Arias, Enrique Desmond, and Corinne Davis Rodrigues. "The Myth of Personal Security: Criminal Gangs, Dispute Resolution, and Identity in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas." Latin American Politics & Society 48, no. 4 (2006): 53–81.
18	Gangs (cont.)	Student-led Discussion Readings Sullivan, John P., and Robert J. Bunker. "Drug Cartels, Street Gangs, and Warlords." Small Wars and Insurgencies 13, no. 2 (2002): 40–53. Rodgers, Dennis, and Robert Muggah. "Gangs as Non-State Armed Groups: The Central American Case." Contemporary Security Policy 30, no. 2 (2009): 301–17. Winton, Ailsa. "Gangs in Global Perspective." Environment and Urbanization 26, no. 2 (2014): 401–16.
19	Weak States and Conflict – The NSAG Perspective	Eriksen, Stein Sundstøl. "'State Failure'in Theory and Practice: The Idea of the State and the Contradictions of State Formation." Review of International Studies 37, no. 1 (2011): 229–47. Arias, Enrique Desmond. Drugs & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, & Public Security. The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780807857748. Call, Charles. "Beyond the 'Failed State': Toward Conceptual Alternatives." European Journal of International Relations 17, no. 2 (2011): 303–26.
20	Weak States and Conflict – The NSAG Perspective (cont.)	Student-led Discussion Readings Acemoglu, Daron, James A. Robinson, et al. The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. 15578, 2009. Abello-Colak, Alexandra, and Valeria Guarneros-Meza. "The Role of Criminal Actors in Local Governance." Urban Studies 51, no. 15 (2014): 3268–89. Patrick, Stewart. Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security. Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN: 9780199751518. [Preview with Google Books]
21	Preliminary in-class presentations of Paper, Part 2	No readings assigned
22	Peace Process and Reconciliation	Schueren, Vander. "From Violence to Justice and Security in Cities." Environment and Urbanization 8, no. 1 (1996): 93–112. Humphreys, Macartan, and Jeremy M. Weinstein. "Demobilization and Reintegration." The Journal of Conflict Resolution 51, no. 4 (2007): 531–67. Vanderschueren, Franz. "From Violence to Justice and Security in Cities." Environment and Urbanization 8, no. 1 (1996): 93–112. Keen, David. "War and Peace: What's the Difference?" In Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century. Editied by Adebajo and Sriram. Routledge, 2001, pp. 1–22. ISBN: 9780714681368. [Preview with Google Books] Fiori, Jorge, and Zeca Brandão. "Spatial Strategies and Urban Social Policy: Urbanism and Poverty Reduction in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro." In Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America (Remapping Cultural History). Berghahn Books, 2012. ISBN: 9780857456076. [Preview with Google Books]
23	Peace Process and Reconciliation (cont.)	Student-led Discussion Readings Addison, Tony. "Africa's Recovery from Conflict: Making Peace Work for the Poor: A Policy-focused summary." (PDF) Published as Policy Brief No. 6, of the UNU / World Institute of Development Economics Research book From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. 2003 Khalaf, Samir, and Philip S. Khoury. Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-War Reconstruction. Brill Academic Publishers, 1993, pp. 101–82. ISBN: 9789004099111. [Preview with Google Books] Rozema, Ralph. "Urban DDR-Processes: Paramilitaries and Criminal Networks in Medellín, Colombia." Journal of Latin American Studies 40, no. 3 (2008): 423–52. Gibson, J. L. "Does Truth Lead to Reconciliation? Testing the Causal Assumptions of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process." American Journal of Political Science 48, no. 2 (2004): 201–17.
24	Wrapping up	No readings assigned
25	Last class	No readings assigned