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COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMME

Cape Town, South Africa

February 20-22, 2012

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THE COLLOQUIUM 4

IMPORTANT INFORMATION 5

COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMME 6

BIOGRAPHIES 11


ABOUT THE COLLOQUIUM

ICPC is organizing its 10th Bi-annual Colloquium on the theme of “Filling the gaps: integrated

approaches to crime prevention and safety”, in association with the South African government and

South African Police Service (SAPS).

The proposed theme for the 2012 Colloquium provides a valuable opportunity to focus on traditional

and new sectors working on crime prevention, with debate and dialogue informed by international

experts. This event aims to promote innovative partnerships to respond to community safety

challenges.

The Colloquium will be held on February 20-22, 2012 at Upper Eastside Hotel, in Cape Town, South

Africa.

The Colloquium will explore the following themes:

National Crime Prevention Policies

Criminal justice and crime prevention

The role of policing in crime prevention

Local Governance and Safety

Evidence and policy making

Public-private partnerships and crime prevention

Cities, development and armed violence


IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Registration

The registration fee is 150 $CAD (approximately 1,200R).

The registration fee includes the delegate package, access and participation to the plenaries /

workshops, simultaneous translation, official dinner, cocktail, all coffee breaks and lunches.

The registration form is available on ICPC’s website: http://www.crime-prevention-

intl.org/en/welcome/publications-events/article/combler-les-lacunes-approches-integrees-pour-la-

prevention-de-la-criminalite-et-la-secur.html

Venue

Upper Eastside Hotel

Brickfield Road, Woodstock,

Cape Town, South Africa

www.uppereastsidehotel.co.za

Accommodation

A list of suggested hotels can be found on the note for participants, available on ICPC’s website. As

February is high season for Cape Town, we strongly encourage you to make your booking soon.

More information

For more information on the Colloquium, please contact:

International Centre for the Prevention of Crime

Phone: +1. 514.288.6731

Email: [email protected]

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COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMME

*This programme is subject to change without notice

** Simultaneous translation into French, English, and Spanish will be provided during all Plenary sessions. All

workshops will have English and French translation. Please note that Spanish translation will be available in

workshops 2 and 6.

DAY 1 Monday, February 20, 2012

Time Conference Session Room

15:00 Registration opens

Foyer

17:30 Opening of proceeding:

Chairperson, Lieutenant General Lamoer, Provincial Commissioner of the Western Cape, South African Police Service

Central 2

(incl. 1&3)

17:35 Welcome address on behalf of South Africa Government:

Makhotso Sotyu, Deputy Minister of Police, South Africa

18:00 Addresses on behalf of UN Habitat and ICPC:

Axumite Gebre-Egziabher, Director, Regional Office for Africa (ROA), UN Habitat

Chantal Bernier, President, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Canada

Dr. Paula Miraglia, Director General, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Canada

18:30 Keynote address by guest speaker:

Pregaluxmi Govender, Deputy Chairperson, South African Human Rights Commission

19:10 Official Dinner, hosted by the Western Cape Department of Community Safety (DOCS) Piazza

DAY 2 Tuesday, February 21, 2012

08:00 Registration opens Foyer

09:00 Opening Plenary - National Crime Prevention Strategies

There continues to be a clear evolution in knowledge and practice about crime prevention. Increasing numbers of

countries and cities around the world see safety and security for their citizens as essential for development, and for the

achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. They are embedding prevention strategies into their legislation and

administrative structures. This persistent rise in the number of national crime prevention strategies gives a clear signal of

its centrality in public policy within the country, and its growing presence as a global guideline. The opening plenary

“National crime prevention strategies” will present a series of national strategies and its developments, challenges and

methods of implementation. It will also offer the space for debate on the importance of prevention strategies from various

perspectives.

Moderator: Lieutenant General S G Lebeya, Deputy National Commissioner: Crime Detection, South African Police Service

Presenters:

− Bilkis Omar, Chief Director: Policy & Research Unit, Civilian Secretariat for Police, South Africa

− Dianne McIntosh, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of National Security, Jamaica

− Ingvild Hoel, Senior Adviser, Prevention and Crime Fighting Section, National Police Directorate, Norway

Commentators:

− Dr. Elizabeth Ward, Chairman, Violence Prevention Alliance, Jamaica

− Dr. Kalpana Viswanath, Project Director, Gender Inclusive Cities Project, Women in Cities International, India

− Eduardo Pazinato, Secretary of Public Safety of Canoas, Brazil

− Julie Alivaktuk, Peer Helper Coordinator, Making Connections for Youth, Hamlet of Pangnirtung, Canada

Piazza

12:00 -

13:50 Lunch Piazza


14:00 Concurrent Workshop Sessions (I)

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CRIME PREVENTION

In recent years, international organizations have become increasingly concerned about the effectiveness of criminal justice

responses to high rates of crime, which can dramatically influence society’s perceptions of security and trust in the system.

This link has drawn attention to the importance of legitimate and effective criminal justice institutions, the integrity and

accountability of authorities, and the treatment of victims and offenders. Such conditions can directly affect the outcomes

and success of crime prevention initiatives, whereby justice and prevention are inter-linked and mutually dependant. Many

state and non-state actors (i.e. NGOs, etc.) have developed multi-sectoral approaches that integrate crime prevention and

the criminal justice system in innovative ways. The workshop on “Criminal justice and crime prevention” will explore

alternative practices aimed at strengthening the effectiveness of preventive capacities within the justice system.

Moderator : Dr Gilbert Lawrence, Head of Department, Department of Community Safety, Western Cape, South Africa

Presenters:

− Lesley Ann Van Selm, Director, Khulisa Social Solutions, South Africa

− Julius Lang, Director of Technical Assistance, Center for Court Innovation, USA

− Chris Heide, Coordinator of Making Connections for Youth and Julie Alivaktuk, Peer Helper Coordinator, Making

Connections for Youth, Hamlet of Pangnirtung, Canada

− Cristina Goñi, Secretary General, International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO), Belgium

Commentator: Natalie Jaynes, Programme Director, Criminal Justice Initiative, Open Society Foundation for South Africa

Rapporteur: Jaki Mbogo, Crime and Criminal Justice Program Officer, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA)

Central 1

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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND CRIME PREVENTION

[Spanish translation available

In recent years, more and more companies have sought new ways to contribute to citizens’ wellbeing and quality of life.

We are witnessing a growth in the engagement of the private sector in actions addressing social problems and ways of

contributing to the development of communities, cities and countries. Safety has been a central focus of many public-

private partnerships, suggesting a formal collaboration between public sector agencies (i.e. government), the civil society

and the private sector, aimed at dealing with rising crime and violence in expanding urban areas worldwide. The private

sector is in a unique position to contribute to crime prevention, and therefore the workshop “Public-private partnerships

and crime prevention” will provide the opportunity to highlight innovative partnerships from around the world, and to

debate the value and limitations of such participation.

Moderator : Fabrice Fussy, Head of Observatoire national de la délinquance dans les transports (ONDT), France

Presenters :

− Dr. Paula Poncioni, Member of the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Federal

University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

− Flavia Carbonari, Sustainable Development Specialist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, The World Bank,

Washington, USA

− Kalyani Pillay, Chief Executive Officer, SABRIC, South Africa

Commentator: Dr. Graham Wright, Chief Executive Officer, Business Against Crime South Africa

Rapporteur : Elizabeth Johnston, Executive Director, European Forum for Urban Security, France

Central 2


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EVIDENCE AND POLICY MAKING

Evidence is crucial in assessing the progress of initiatives, monitoring budgets, evaluating effectiveness, and determining

future activities. Research plays a significant role in the production of evidence through evaluation, and evidence-based

research is an important part of building bridges with policy making. While the production of evidence is a growing part

of project management, translating evidence into knowledge for the purposes of influencing policy and making it more

accessible are ongoing challenges. Considering the importance of evidence for prevention, the workshop “Evidence and

policy making” will review several innovative ways of measuring crime and crime prevention, and will outline the

challenges involved from different contexts in terms of how to transform evidence into policy.

Moderator: Dr. Christopher Mikton, Technical Officer, Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health

Organization

Presenters:

− Dr. Adam Tomison, Director, Australian Institute of Criminology, Australia

− Innocent Chukwuma, Executive Director, CLEEN Foundation, Nigeria

− Dr. Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Research Director, Small Arms Survey (SAS), Switzerland

Commentator: Dr. Richard A Griggs, Independent Evaluator of Crime Prevention Projects and Programmes, South Africa

Rapporteur : Patrick Burton, Executive Director, Center for Justice and Crime Prevention, South Africa

Central 3

17:00 End of the second day of the Colloquium

17:30 Publication launch and Cocktail reception offered by South African Police Service

"Public-Private Partnerships and Community Safety: Guide to Action", published by ICPC, the World Bank and the

Bogota Chamber of Commerce

"Youth Crime and Justice Statistics at a Glance", published by Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention

"Contributing Evidence to Programming: Armed Violence Monitoring Systems", published by the Geneva

Declaration

Piazza

DAY 3 Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Time Conference Session Room

09:00 Concurrent Workshop Sessions (II)

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LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND SAFETY

One of the big gaps in crime prevention work historically is to properly interrogate the dependencies between local

governance issues and the provision of local safety to communities, villages, towns and cities. This session will offer an

opportunity to explore the way in which the design and management of human settlements is essential to the provision of

safety. Discussion will explore the extent to which crime prevention should be seen as an objective when addressing basic

services such as sanitation, water and electricity, access to education, health, livelihoods, reliable transport and to other

opportunities such as for play and family leisure, for spaces in which women, the elderly and other disadvantaged groups

such as the disabled, are safe and experience freedom of movement.

Moderator: Dr. Tina Silbernagl, German Development Corporation, Germany

Presenters:

− Dr. Kalpana Viswanath, Project Director, Gender Inclusive Cities Project, Women in Cities International, India

− Delme Cupido, Indigenous Peoples Rights programme Manager, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa

− Dr. Gilbert Lawrence, Head of Department, Department of Community Safety, Western Cape, South Africa

Commentator: Michael Krause, Team leader, Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) programme, South Africa

Rapporteur: Nazira Cachalia, Programme Manager, Johannesburg City Safety Programme, Office of the CoP, JMPD

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THE ROLE OF POLICING IN CRIME PREVENTION

Police services worldwide continue to be key actors in crime prevention. Since 1996, the role of the police in crime

prevention has been a core area of work for ICPC, which has included its 7th

Colloquium, various seminars, comparative

research and international compendia. Prevention increasingly plays a role in policing practices as a means of

implementing alternative strategies in dealing with changing crime rates. Some examples include providing a visible

presence through community policing practices, building effective cross-sector partnerships, as well as shifting traditional

policing structures by providing courses to officers. The workshop on “the role of policing in crime prevention” will explore

how different police services have better responded to crime in terms of promoting safety as a means of strengthening

their prevention capacity.

Moderator: Johan Kruger, National Project Coordinator, Trafficking in Persons & Violence against Women, Southern

Africa, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Presenters:

− Camilla Grimsæth, Superintendent at Vestfold Police District, Norway and Geir Tveit, Police Superintendent at Oslo

Police District, Gronland Police Station, Norway

− Susan Pienaar, Major General, Division Visible Policing, South African Police Service

− Dormah Harrison, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Jamaica Constabulary Force, Jamaica

− Léandre Sorgo, Head of the Communications and Public Relations Division General Directorate National Police of

Burkina Faso

Commentator: Dr. Elrena van der Spuy, Associate Professor, Centre of Criminology and Department of Public Law,

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Rapporteur : Sean Tait, Coordinator, African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum, South Africa

Central 3

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CITIES, DEVELOPMENT AND ARMED VIOLENCE

[Spanish translation available

The 21st Century is the ‘century of the city’ and half of the world’s population resides in urban areas. While urbanization

has brought opportunities to dwellers, cities are feeling the weight to accommodate residents. The result in many cases

has been weak provision of security, sprawling informal settlements, and heightened exposure and risk of armed violence.

Attention towards urban armed violence is gaining momentum and initiatives are providing opportunities to advance

dialogue and policy. Prevention as an approach is securing a place within national and international discussion and course

of action. The Colloquium provides a space to continue the work from the 2nd Ministerial Review Conference on the

Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development. This workshop will outline some prevention efforts at the city

level which address urban armed violence, the impact on development, and the degree to which they integrate different

sectors to reshape crime prevention.

Moderator : Juma Assiago, Human Urban Safety Expert/Lead - Global Network on Safer Cities (GNSC), Safer Cities

Programme, Urban Development Branch

Presenters:

− Eduardo Pazinato, Secretary of Public Safety of Canoas, Brazil

− Joseph Dube, Africa Coordinator, International Action Network on Small Arms , South Africa

− Elred De Klerk, Consultant, South Africa

Commentator : Brigadier Mathapelo Mirriam Mangwani, Division Visible Policing, South African Police Service

Rapporteur : Luigi De Martino, Geneva Declaration, Switzerland

Central2

12:30 –

13:50 Lunch Piazza


14:00 Report from the workshop sessions:

Moderator: Dr. Vincenzo Castelli Project Manager, Consorzio Nova, Italy

Rapporteurs:

− Jaki Mbogo, Crime and Criminal Justice Program Officer, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa

− Elizabeth Johnston, Executive Director, European Forum for Urban Security

− Patrick Burton, Executive Director, Center for Justice and Crime Prevention, South Africa

− Nazira Cachalia, Programme Manager, Johannesburg City Safety Programme, Office of the CoP, JMPD

− Sean Tait, Coordinator, African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum, South Africa

− Luigi De Martino, Coordinator of the Geneva Declaration, Switzerland

Central 2

(incl. 1&3)

15:00

Closing Plenary - "The Future of Crime Prevention"

Chairperson, Lieutenant General Lamoer, Provincial Commissioner of the Western Cape, South African Police Service

Presenters :

− Dr. Barbara Holtmann, Consultant, South Africa

− Zane Dangor, Special Adviser to the Minister of Social Development, South Africa

− Dr. Paula Miraglia, Director General, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Canada

Central 2

(incl. 1&3)

16:30 Closing address

Chantal Bernier, President, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Canada

Nathi Mthethwa, Minister of Police, South Africa

Central 2

(incl. 1&3)

17:00

Closing of the Colloquium


BIOGRAPHIES

Julie Alivaktuk

Peer Helper Coordinator, Making Connections for Youth, Hamlet of Pangnirtung, Canada

Julie Alivaktuk is currently employed as a Peer Helper Coordinator with Making Connections for Youth.

In this role she encourages students from Grade 4 to 12 to reach out to each other and equips them

with the training and tools they require to do so in a meaningful and helpful manner. Julie is an

accomplished videographer whose short, and often humorous, videos have been seen frequently in

Pangnirtung and other Inuit communities including Iqaluit and Nuuk in Greenland. Her short film on

the hazards of climate change in the Arctic was shown at the Global Climate Change Summit in

Copenhagen and at the Summer Olympics in Vancouver. She has also traveled extensively to teach

video-making and her other passion, hip hop. She is currently Vice-Chair of the Pangnirtung Hamlet

Youth Council.

Anna Alvazzi del Frate

Research Director, Small Arms Survey (SAS), Switzerland

Dr. Anna Alvazzi del Frate is Research Director of Small Arms Survey (SAS),

a project of the Graduate Institute of International and Development

Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Before joining SAS, she spent more than

twenty years working for the United Nations. From 2003 to 2010, she was

at UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) in Vienna, where

she established and lead a team dealing with research, statistics and

surveys on crime and victimization. Between 1989 and 2003, she was at

UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute)

in Rome and Turin, Italy. Besides a large number of research projects on

crime prevention, corruption, transnational organized crime and illegal

markets, comparative criminal justice systems, environmental crime and gender-related issues in which

she was involved, she worked on the development and establishment of a series of international

surveys aimed at obtaining comparable information on experiences of crime and justice.


Juma Assiago

Human Urban Safety Expert/Lead - Global Network on Safer Cities (GNSC), Safer Cities

Programme, Urban Development Branch

A social scientist by profession, Mr. Juma Assiago is an urban safety and youth expert with UN

HABITAT, and is the Lead for the Global Network on Safer Cities (GNSC). He joined UN-HABITAT in

1999, working in the area of urban safety and youth programming. He is tasked with assisting

governments and other city stakeholders to build capacities at the city level to adequately address

urban insecurity and to contribute to the establishment of a culture of prevention in developing

countries. He has served in various UN inter-agency coordinating processes and technically supported

various international youth crime prevention and governance processes. Mr. Assiago’s main thematic

area of focus is on the use of social, institutional and situational crime prevention measures to reduce

youth crime and delinquency at the local level.

Chantal Bernier

President, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Canada

A lawyer, holding a Master in Public International Law, Ms Chantal Bernier

has a long career in the federal public service of Canada. From private

practice in Montreal where she was representing Aboriginal people from

Northern Quebec, Ms Bernier joined the Department of Justice as a lawyer,

then the Immigation and Refugee Board as Advisor to the Chairperson, the

Privy Council Office as Director of Operations for Machinery of

Government, to become Assistant Deputy Minister at Aboriginal Affairs and

Northern Development and at Public Safety Canada. Ms Bernier is currently

the Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada and President of the ICPC

since 2010.

Patrick Burton

Executive Director, Center for Justice and Crime Prevention, South Africa

Patrick Burton is the Executive Director of the Centre for Justice and Crime

Prevention (CJCP), a Cape Town-based NGO engaged in the field of social

justice and crime prevention, with a particular focus on children and

youth. Patrick is a post-graduate development researcher, having

graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a Higher

Diploma in Development Planning, and from the University of KwaZulu-

Natal (Durban) with a Master of Science degree in Development Studies,

with a gender focus. As a partner and director of Development Research

Africa in Johannesburg, Patrick undertook extensive work in the security;

HIV/AIDS and health; ICT and small business sectors. While at CJCP, Patrick has worked on the first

national youth victimisation study to be conducted in South Africa, youth resilience to violence study, a

national school violence baseline study and a cyber-violence pilot study. He has undertaken work in


South Africa, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia, the Democratic Republic

of Congo, India and Bangladesh.

Nazira Cachalia

Programme Manager, Johannesburg City Safety Programme, Office of the CoP, JMPD

Ms Nazira Cachalia has been working in the City of Johannesburg since 2002, initially responsible for

the development of the City’s Safety and Skills Development Strategies. In 2004 she set up the Joburg

City Safety Programme, based in the Office of the Chief of the Metro Police, and with a small team has

been responsible for the implementation and mainstreaming of the Safety Strategy in the City. She has

a Masters Degree in Education and a Masters in Public and Development Management, both from

Wits University. Nazira has experience in programme management, leadership development and

workshop facilitation. Within the context of her work with the City, she has gained extensive

experience in the role of local governments in safety and security planning and has worked with a

range of local, provincial, national and international role-players. In this context her programme has

developed an integrated multi-agency Joburg City Safety Toolkit incorporating all the learning and

good practice since the implementation of the strategy.

Flavia Carbonari

Sustainable Development, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, The World Bank, Washington,

USA

Flávia Carbonari is a social development consultant with the Sustainable Development Department at

the World Bank. She joined the Bank in 2007 and for the past few years has been working with the

Social Cohesion and Violence Prevention group and the Citizen Security team in the Latin America and

the Caribbean Region. She holds a Master's degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown

University and bachelor degrees in International Relations and Journalism from Pontifícea Universidade

Católica de São Paulo, Brazil.

Vincenzo Castelli

Project Manager, Consorzio Nova, Italy

Vincenzo Castelli holds a Doctorate in Philosophy and Pedagogy. He is responsible for projects in the

Consorzio NOVA (a consortium of Italian social organizations), adviser and supervisor of Security

Projects and marginal groups in urban Latin America for the Italian Cooperation (Foreign Affairs

Ministry) and he is an international expert on Urban Security for projects of the European Union (Urb-

AL and Eurosocial) in Latin America. Mr. Castelli is also an Advisor in planning, evaluation and

monitoring, both in Italy and in other European countries, for Ministries, regions, municipalities, as well

as for national and international networks on issues relating to interventions aimed at children and

adolescents, sexual exploitation, drug abuse, migration, gender, among others. Mr. Castelli is the

author of numerous publications on urban security issues.


Innocent Chukwuma

Executive Director, CLEEN Foundation, Nigeria

Innocent Chukwuma is a leading researcher and change manager on

police, policing, crime prevention and criminal justice reform, as well as

the founder/Director of CLEEN Foundation, a non-government

organization that promotes public safety, security and access to justice

in West Africa. Mr. Chukwuma is also the chair of Altus, a global alliance

of NGOs and academic centres in five continents that promotes safety

and justice from a multicultural and multilingual perspective; advisory

board member of Open Society Institute's Violent Crime Prevention

Program; and board member of the African Policing Civilian Oversight

Forums (APCOF). Mr Chukwuma has numerous publications on crime

prevention, police and policing and justice sector reform to his credit

and has worked as a consultant to several multilateral and bilateral development agencies including

the UNDP, UNODC, European Union and Department for International Development (DFID).

Delme Cupido

Indigenous Peoples Rights programme Manager, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa

Delme Cupido is the Economic Justice Assistant Programme Manager, and, as of January 2011 heads

the Indigenous Peoples Rights Programme at OSISA. Delme was the APM in OSISA’s HIV programme

from 2006-2010. Prior to joining OSISA, he was the Coordinator of the AIDS Law Unit of the Legal

Assistance Centre, a public interest law centre based in Namibia. Delme was active in the international

HIV Treatment Access movement, was a founding trustee of the AIDS Rights Alliance for Southern

Africa, a founding member of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, the Pan African

Treatment Access Movement and the Collaborative Fund for HIV. Delme holds a Bachelor of Arts

degree from the University of Cape Town, and obtained a bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of

the Western Cape.

Luigi De Martino,

Coordinator of the Geneva Declaration, Switzerland

Luigi De Martino is the coordinator of the Geneva Declaration on Armed

Violence and Development a diplomatic initiative signed by 112 states

aiming at reducing in a measurable way armed violence by 2015. He has

worked for more than ten years as independent researcher and consultant

on political and resources – related violence in Central Asia. During six years

he has been for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

and for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Tajikistan

and Kyrgyzstan. He holds a Master in cultural Anthropology and a B.A. in

Political Sciences, of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.


Joseph Dube

Africa Coordinator, International Action Network on Small Arms , South Africa

Joseph Dube is the Africa Coordinator of the international action network on small arms (IANSA). A

South African activist for social justice, he started working on preventing gun violence in 1994,

becoming involved with Gun Free South Africa at an early stage. Confronting the reasons people

wanted guns in one of the world's most violent societies, Joseph persuaded communities of 40,000

people to find alternatives to violence by declaring gun-free zones, enabling them to reclaim spaces

such as schools, health facilities and shops. During the campaign for a tough new gun law, Joseph

bridged the gap between communities and parliament, empowering people from marginalised

communities to understand how Parliament works, and how to make a submission or presentation.

After leaving Gun Free South Africa in May 2004, Joseph joined Amnesty International in South Africa

to coordinate campaigns including Stop Violence Against Women, Refugees and MSP (Control Arms)

in South Africa, Sudan and Swaziland. He joined the IANSA secretariat in February 2005.

Fabrice Fussy

Head of The Observatoire national de la délinquance dans les transports (ONDT), France

Fabrice Fussy is a geographer and criminologist. A graduate of the University

of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris Institute of Criminology and the

Institute for Studies and Research on private security (IERSE), Fabrice Fussy

specialized in geo-statistical analysis and crime prevention. After working for

six years at the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) as

project manager “geographic information system security”, in 2009 he

became head of the Department of Analysis and Research for the

Observatoire national de la délinquance dans les transports (ONDT), within

the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing.

In October 2011, he was appointed head of the ONDT during the creation of

a department of transport security, within the Ministry.

Cristina Goñi

Secretary General, International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO), Belgium

Cristina Goñi has a degree in Psychology from the University of Salamanca

and a Master of Management in Nonprofits Organizations from Fundación

Luis Vives and the National University of Distance Education (Madrid). She

has spent most of her career coordinating programs for adolescents and

youth socially excluded by working with public and private entities in

different regions of Spain. For two years she participated in Lisbon in the

Program "Escolha", "Program for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency and

Youth Social Integration" promoted by the Government of Portugal. In

August 2007 she began her collaboration with the International Juvenile

Justice Observatory through participation in European projects, research and international events. In

2009 she assumed the leadership of the European Monitoring Centre for Juvenile Justice, from which

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contributes to the continuing improvement of juvenile justice in Europe, fostering collaboration

between governments, universities and NGOs involved with it.

Pregaluxmi Govender

Deputy Chairperson, South African Human Rights Commission

Pregs Govender's activism began in 1974 in Durban, through student,

women, community and political organisations that were fighting against

Apartheid. After graduating from University, she worked as a teacher at

schools and at university in Durban. In the 1980’s she joined the trade

union movement, serving as National Educator before heading the

Workers College at UWC. During South Africa’s transition, she managed

the Women’s National Coalition, which drew up SA’s Women’s Charter and

mobilized rural and urban women to impact on SA’s Constitution.

After the first democratic elections in 1994, Pregs served as an ANC MP

under President Mandela. She initiated SA’s gender budgeting, steered its

impact on the National Budget and inspired similar initiatives globally. She was appointed editor of

SA’s Country Report on Women to the UN Conference in Beijing. In 1996, after being elected Chair of

Parliament’s Committee on Women, she ensured that 80% of its legislative priorities were enacted by

1999. In 2001, she was the only MP to register opposition to the arms deal in the Defence Budget

Vote itself. She also chaired public hearings on HIV/Aids. Her Committee’s report broke the silence on

HIV/Aids that prevailed in the ANC Caucus, during President Mbeki’s era. She resigned from

Parliament in 2002. In 2007 the Independent Panel Assessment of Parliament elected Pregs as its Chair.

She currently serves as Deputy Chair of the SAHRC, after Parliament voted unanimously for her

appointment as a Commissioner to the SAHRC. Pregs currently serves on the international Panel on

Human Dignity. Her awards include honorary doctorates in Law and Philosophy, the Ruth First

Fellowship and the Fulbright New Century Scholarship on the global empowerment of women. In

2007, Jacana published her book Love and Courage, a story of Insubordination, which has been used in

the curricula of several universities across the globe.

Richard A Griggs

Independent Evaluator of Crime Prevention Projects and Programmes, South Africa

Dr. Richard Griggs is an independent research consultant who uses social science methodologies to

assist government departments, funding agencies and civil society organizations to develop, monitor

and evaluate projects and programs. He has a background in human geography (PhD, University of

California at Berkeley) and in 1994 he became lecturer at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Since

2000, Richard has worked independently as a contracted consultant providing the kinds of greatly

detailed studies that have helped funded projects and programmes reach their objectives. Most

recently he worked in Malawi to evaluate a national system of free paralegal services for pre-trial

detainees. Richard has also authored four reviews on crime prevention practices published by the


Open Society Foundation and contributed to others including one developed by the United Nations

Office on Drugs and Crime.

Camilla Grimsæth

Superintendent at Vestfold Police District, Norway

Camilla Grimsæth is the Superintendent of the Vestfold police district in Norway. She currently leads all

work relating to domestic violence and preventative action at the Police Directorate. She is also the

project manager of the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment. Camilla has more than 20 years experience in

the police, specifically working on the prevention of violence against children. She is the head of a

clinic that deals with victims of violence and rape. She completed her education at the Norwegian

police university college. In 2005, Camilla received the Vestfold county gender equality award, and in

2011 received an honorary award from the Police crime prevention forum.

Chris Heide

Coordinator of Making Connections for Youth, Hamlet of Pangnirtung, Canada

Chris Heide first arrived in Pangnirtung in 1980 and divides his time between

there and his other home in Nova Scotia. Since 2007, he has directed a pilot

program called “Making Connections for Youth” providing youth with

employment opportunities, training, family support, recreation and a wide

range of cultural programs including preserving Inuit traditions as well as

enhancing newer youth art forms such as hip hop. He designed and

manages the current Youth Intervention and Diversion Outreach (YIDO) in

Pangnirtung funded through the National Crime Prevention Centre. He also

led “Responding to Youth Suicide,” an ambitious youth suicide prevention

strategy for the community. At present, he chairs the Pangnirtung

Interagency and is on the board of the Nunavut Broadband Development

Corporation.

Ingvild Hoel

Senior Adviser, Section Prevention and Crime Fighting, National Police Directorate, Norway

After graduating as a sociologist (University of Oslo) in 1988, Ingvild Hoel

worked with alcohol- and drug-related topics both in the research and

prevention field, and from 1992-2001 as Head of Section/Assistant director at

The National Directorate for Prevention of Alcohol- and Drug problems. In

2001 she started to work in The National Police Directorate Norway, and she

is today a Senior Adviser at the Section Prevention and Crime Fighting,

working with strategic analysis, analysis on specific criminal topics, statistics,

crime prevention methods etc.


Barbara Holtmann

Consultant, South Africa

Barbara Holtmann has a Master of Management (Public and Development

Management) from University of Witwatersrand and a PhD (Management of

Technology and Innovation) from Da Vinci Institute. Her book "What it looks

like when its fixed", describes her methodology for transforming complex fragile

social systems. She is outgoing Vice President of the International Centre for

Prevention of Crime (ICPC) and serves on the Board of Women In Cities

International (WICI).

Jennifer Irish-Qhobosheane

National Secretary of Police, South Africa

Jennifer Irish-Qhobosheane is the National Secretary of Police of the Republic of South Africa. She

holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. Ms. Irish-

Qhobosheane has worked extensively in the human rights non-governmental sector. After completing

her BA, she worked as a socio-political development officer at the Diakonia Council of Churches before

becoming the KwaZulu-Natal co-ordinator of the Human Rights Committee. In 1993, she became the

Director of the Network of Independent Monitors (NIM). She now provides research services on crime

to NGOs and government. Ms. Irish-Qhobosheane has also worked with SAIIA on the War and

Organised Crime programme. She is currently working on SAIIA’s Social Economy of Organised Crime

programme.

Natalie Jaynes

Programme Director, Criminal Justice Initiative, Open Society Foundation for South Africa

Natalie Jaynes currently works as Programme Director for the Open Society Foundation for South

Africa. She heads up the Foundation’s Criminal Justice Initiative. Prior to joining the OSF-SA Jaynes

served as the National Director for Gun Free South Africa (GFSA). Before that she worked at the

Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), heading up the Institute’s “Building an Inclusive Society”

project. She holds honours degrees in Theology and Philosophy and a Masters degree in Political

Philosophy. In 2011 she was selected as the Sarah Meek Fellow and spent time working with the

Institute for Security Studies in South Africa and the Small Arms Survey in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2010

Jaynes was selected as one of the Mail & Guardian’s “200 Young South Africans You Must Take to

Lunch”. Jaynes’ research interests include restorative justice, private security and armed violence

prevention.


Elizabeth Johnston

Executive Director, European Forum for Urban Security, France

Elizabeth Johnston is Executive Director of the European Forum for Urban Security (EFUS) since

October 2011, after having been Deputy Executive Director for 10 years. She manages EFUS technical

staff, and implements the strategic orientations decided by EFUS Executive Committee and President.

Elizabeth holds a degree in Political Sciences and Urban Policies, and has spent her whole career

working on urban policies. Also, she recently worked at the World Bank in Washington as an expert in

the prevention of violence.

Michael Krause

Team leader, Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) programme, South Africa

Michael Krause is a place maker who believes in negotiating solutions to shape urban environments.

He grew up in East Germany, studied Urban Design and Spatial Planning at the Bauhausuniversity

Weimar, Germany and in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. From 1995 onwards he had the privilege to

work for Rodney Harber and Associates in Durban mainly in informal settlements including Phoenix

Settlement – Gandhi’s second Ashram. Since 2006 Michael leads a highly dedicated and transversal

team of people to implement and further develop the programme Violence Prevention through Urban

Upgrading which started off in formal areas and is now being adapted to suit informal settlements.

Michael is the Director of Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods a practise that seeks to combine

dialogue between residents, local authorities with appropriate social, economic and cultural solutions

to achieve resilient neighbourhoods.

Lieutenant General Lamoer,

Provincial Commissioner of the Western Cape, South African Police Service

Lieutenant-General Arno Heinrich Lamoer hails from the small rural

Boland village of Riviersonderend in the Western Cape, South Africa. He

started his career in the South African Police early in 1980, and has

accumulated vast experience, spanning all levels of policing, for over

three decades in an organization which has undergone historic

transformation.

During 2002, Lieutenant-General Lamoer was appointed as the Divisional

Commissioner, Operational Response Service and in 2006 the Divisional

Commissioner, Crime Prevention and Operational Response Service for

the South African Police Service (SAPS) nationally. After the amalgamation of Operational Response

Service and Crime Prevention in the SAPS he was again appointed as the, Divisional Commissioner,

Visible Policing responsible for all uniform policing in South Africa, including Peace Keeping

Operations under the banner of the United Nations/African Union and the co-ordination of all Major

Events (including FIFA World Cup 2010) and Specialized Uniform Support.


Lieutenant-General Lamoer was appointed as the Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police

Service in the Western Cape on 2010-12-01. He holds a Diploma in Police Administration

Julius Lang

Director of Technical Assistance, Center for Court Innovation, USA

Julius Lang has been the Director of Technical Assistance at the Center for Court Innovation in New York City

since 2002. Since then, Mr. Lang has overseen the Center’s many consulting services – including workshops,

study tours and in-person consulting – for jurisdictions around the U.S. and from over 50 countries around the

globe. Mr. Lang has served as part of the core planning team and faculty for dozens of trainings, and worked

with local practitioners to plan or enhance numerous community courts and other innovative experiments. He

is also currently working with The California Endowment and the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of

Community-Oriented Policing Services on an initiative to help law enforcement take advantage of

collaborations with the public health sector to prevent violence.

Gilbert Lawrence

Head of Department, Department of Community Safety, Western Cape, South Africa

Dr. Gilbert Arthur Lawrence is the Head of the Western Cape Department of Community Safety, as of

June 21, 2007. He is the former Director-General of the Provincial Government of the Western

Cape (2002–2007). Dr. Lawrence has also held positions of Acting Director-General of the Provincial

Government of the Western Cape, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Health and Social

Services, Western Cape Province, Chief Director of the Health Department at Supra Regional Services

and the Director of Health Services, Western Cape Regional Services Council.

Lieutenant General Lebeya

Deputy National Commissioner: Crime Detection, South African Police Service

Lieutenant General Lebeya Deputy National Commissioner responsible for Crime Detection, within the

South African Police Service. He has worked in various Units of the Detective service including House

Breaking Unit, Fraud Unit, Commercial Crime Unit and Organized Crime Units since 1984. Lieutenant

General Lebeya has managed the Detective Service at various levels including Unit Commander,

Provincial Commander of Commercial Crime and Specialized Investigations, Provincial Head of

Detective Service and National Head Organized Crime, Divisional Commissioner of DPCI/Hawks and

Deputy National Commissioner. He has represented SAPS in Southern African Regional Police Chiefs

Cooperation Organization (SARPCCO), an authored a book on Organized Crime in the Southern

African Development Community with specific reference to Motor vehicle theft.


Brigadier Mathapelo Mirriam Mangwani

Division Visible Policing, South African Police Service

Brigadier Mathapelo Mirriam Mangwani is the Section Head: of the Central Firearm Register(CFR) and

also Acting Head of Firearms, Liquor and Second Hand Goods Control (FLASH). As the Registrar she is

a member of the NATIONAL CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL COMITTEE (NCACC) which is chaired

by Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, She is Chair of the SAPS FIREARMS EXPORT

SCRUTINY MEETING, as well as Chair of the Regional Coordinating Committee (RCC) on Small Arms

and Light Weapons (SALW) in the SADC Region. She has the mandate to implement the FIREARM

CONTROL ACT,THE LIQOUR as well as the SECOND- HAND-GOODS LEGISLATIONS in the Country.

Jaki Mbogo

Crime and Criminal Justice Program Officer, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa

Jacqueline (Jaki) Mbogo is the crime and criminal justice program officer at the Open Society Initiative

for Eastern Africa (OSIEA). Working in the Kenya Program, Mbogo is focusing on preventing violent

crime and promoting criminal justice reform in Kenya. The project is a collaboration with OSI’s Initiative

on Confronting Violent Crime and the Special Initiatives Criminal Justice Program.

Dianne McIntosh

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of National Security, Jamaica

Ms. Dianne McIntosh has recently been appointed Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National

Security. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Sociology from the University of Hong Kong, and a

Bachelor of Science Degree in Special Education from Eastern Michigan University. She recently

participated in a “Leaders in Development: Managing Change in a Dynamic World” training course at

the Harvard University. Before entering the Government service Ms. McIntosh served as a consultant

and has worked with a number of international and local organizations. These include the United

Nations Development Programme, the United Nations International Drug Control, the Canadian Save

the Children Fund, the British Overseas Development Agency/ Kingston Restoration Company, and the

Child Support Unit of the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development.

Christopher Mikton

Technical Officer, Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization

Christopher Mikton was educated at the

University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (PhD and MPhil in

Criminology, specializing in forensic psychiatry). Before joining the

Prevention of Violence Team in WHO's Department of Violence and Injury

Prevention and Disability (VIP), Dr. Mikton worked as a clinical scientist for

the United Kingdom's Ministry of Justice and Department of Health's

Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder Programme. Dr. Mikton

joined the VIP in 2008. His work currently focuses on preparing the Global


status report on violence prevention; developing evidence-based technical guidelines for the

prevention of different forms of interpersonal violence; supporting the prevention of interpersonal

violence in developing countries, with a particular focus on child maltreatment prevention; and serving

as the Secretariat of the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA).

Paula Miraglia

Director General, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Canada

Dr. Paula Miraglia is the Director General of ICPC. Dr. Miraglia holds a

Doctorate in Social Anthropology. Her academic and professional

interests are related to themes such as urban violence, youth and safety,

including the development of local prevention plans, police training and

extensive research to inform public policy at different levels. Paula has

also acted as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank –

IDB and the United Nations Development Program - UNDP. She is a

member of the Brazilian Forum for Public Safety and a regular researcher

at the International Center for Comparative Criminology at the University

of Montreal. Dr. Miraglia frequently collaborates with newspapers and

journals and has a weekly column in which she comments on issues

relate to crime prevention, safety and justice in Brazil.

Nathi Mthethwa

Minister of Police for the Republic of South Africa

Mr. Nathi Mthethwa is the Minister of Police for the Republic of South Africa. He has held this position

since May 11, 2009. Mr. Mthethwa is a member of the National Executive Committee of the African

National Congress. He is also a member of the ANC National Working Committee and an active

member of the King Dingiswayo branch of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal. Mr. Mthethwa was elected the

first Branch Secretary of the ANC in Klaarwater in KwaZulu-Natal, and has been a Member of

Parliament since 2002. He has a Diploma in Community Development from the University of Natal, and

has certificates in Mining Engineering from the University of Johannesburg and in Communications

and Leadership from Rhodes University.

Eduardo Pazinato

Secretary of Public Safety of Canoas, Brazil

Eduardo Pazinato is a lawyer and holds a master degree in Law from Santa Catarina Federal University.

He is the Municipal Secretary of Public Safety and Citizenship of Canoas, Brazil. Eduardo is the

President of the State Association of Municipal Secretaries and Managers of Public Security of

Rio Grande do Sul. He is member of the Research Group in Safety Public Policies and Criminal Justice

Administration, associated to the Graduate Program in Criminal Sciences at the Catholic University of

Rio Grande do Sul. Eduardo is also member of the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety and of the Public


Safety Commission of OAB Subsection Canoas. He is also a teacher at the Public Safety National

Network for Advanced Studies and other institutions.

Susan Pienaar

Major General, Division Visible Policing, South African Police Service

Susan Pienaar is the Head of Crime Prevention in the Visible Policing Division of the South African

Police Service. She was previously responsible for Social Crime Prevention and Police Emergency

Services and has worked in the SAPS since 2000. Her previous work experience includes serving as

Chief Director in the National Crime Prevention Strategy office and acting as Head of the Gauteng

Provincial Department of Safety and Security in 1998 and 1999. She holds a B.Admin Honours degree

in Political Science.

Kalyani Pillay

Chief Executive Officer, SABRIC, South Africa

Kalyani Pillay is the CEO of SABRIC, South African Banking and Risk Information Centre, having taken

up this position in December 2007. Ms. Pillay is an admitted Attorney and Conveyancer, having

practiced at a law firm in Pietermaritzburg from 1987 to 1995. Ms. Pillay then joined the Department of

Justice and Constitutional Development as the Head of the State Attorney’s Office in Johannesburg

from 1995. In 2005, Ms. Pillay was appointed as Special Adviser to the National Director of Public

Prosecutions for South Africa, as well as Head of International Co-operation for the NPA before

moving to SABRIC.

Paula Poncioni

Member of the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Federal

University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Paula Poncioni is a Professor of Social Work at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She

received her PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo and her research was carried out with

the Center of Criminology at the University of Toronto, Canada. In 2009, Paula completed her

postdoctoral studies at the Center for Studies on Violence and Safety at the University of Brasilia. Since

2009, she is a member of the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety. Paula’s areas of expertise are police,

training, violence, public policy, public security and democracy.


Tina Silbernagl

German Development Corporation, Germany

Dr. Tina Silbernagl is head of the project “inclusive crime and violence

prevention” in South Africa which is implemented by the Deutsche

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Her

work aims at enhancing citizen safety through up- and wide scaling of

good practices, mainstreaming of a crime and violence prevention lens in

municipal processes, through professionalization of various groups of

actors as well as through multi-stakeholder collaborations. For over ten

years, Mrs. Silbernagl has worked professionally on the promotion of

young people with a strong emphasis on capacity development of state

and non-state actors, focusing on youth inclusion and violence prevention. In addition, she has

gathered experience in the field as an international development consultant for GTZ and the World

Bank and has lived and worked in London for several years.

Léandre Sorgo

Head of the Communications and Public Relations Division General Directorate National Police

of Burkina Faso

Léandre Sorgo is a lawyer and Commissioner of the Burkina Faso Police since 2001. He has held several

positions during his police career and is currently the Head of the Division of Public Relations and

Communication at the General Director of National Police in Ouagadougou. He was also the Deputy

Chief of Staff of the Minister of Communications, government spokesman and responsible for the

Francophone (between 2008 and 2011). He led discussions on "The Foreign Policy of Burkina Faso

under the Fourth Republic: the development diplomacy" and "The issue of enforcement of property

destruction as a result of social movements."

Makhotso Sotyu

Deputy Minister of Police, South Africa

Ms Makhotso Magdeline “Maggie” SOTYU was born in Worcester, Western Cape, and moved to

Bloemfontein where she got married to the late Mr Sotyu. She is the mother of two daughters and one

grandson.

Makhotso Maggie Sotyu is a member of both African National Congress Provincial Executive and a

member of the African National Congress Women’s League in the Free State Province. She was

deployed to Parliament by the ANC IN 1999. She served in many Parliamentary Portfolio Committees

namely, Safety and Security, Social Development, Arts and Culture and Science and Technology.

After the 2004 National elections she was appointed as Chairperson for both Safety and Security

Portfolio Committee and the Peace and Stability cluster in Parliament. After the 2009 elections she was

appointed as chairperson for Water and Environmental Affairs Portfolio Committee and the Social

Transformation Cluster.


In 2003 – 2005 she obtained a certificate in Economics through UNISA. In 2006 – 2009 she completed

an Advance Diploma in Economics through the University of the Western Cape (UWC). In 2009 to 2010

she was appointed to serve in both Inkomati Advisory Council & Overberg Advisory Board for Water

Affairs.

She represented South African Climate Change negotiations and subsequently she was tasked to lead

a parliamentary delegation to Copenhagen to the Climate Change Conference in December 2009.

She served in many women empowerment structures in Africa. Parliament nominated her to undergo a

course on Population and Sustainable Development through the University of Dar-Es Salaam and

which she completed in October 2010 (Lead Programme).

Hon. Makhotso Maggie Sotyu was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Police by the

President on the 1 November 2010. Deputy Minister Sotyu has been tasked to oversee the Department

of Police Administration (Programme 1) and Visible Policing (Programme 2). She has also been

appointed to form part of the South African delegation to participate at the United Nations 56th

Session for the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Sean Tait

Coordinator, African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum, South Africa

Sean Tait is the co-ordinator of the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum. He is a graduate in

Criminology from the University of Cape Town’s Centre of Criminology. He has worked as director of

the Open Society Foundation for South Africa’s Criminal Justice Initiative, as director of a South African

NGO UMAC working inter alia on issues of policing, crime prevention, conflict management and

human security.

Adam Tomison

Director, Australian Institute of Criminology, Australia

Dr. Adam Tomison was appointed Director of the Australian Institute of

Criminology (AIC) in July 2009. He is internationally recognised as an expert

in the field of child abuse, violence prevention, and the development and

operation of child protection and family support systems. He had

previously been Director of the Northern Territory's Family and Children's

Services, and the Department's inaugural Principal Child Protection Adviser.

In 2006-07 he acted as the Director of Policy and Research for the NT 'Little

Children are Sacred' Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from

Sexual Abuse. He first became well known for his work developing and

managing Australia’s National Child Protection Clearinghouse and the

Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault, both at the Australian

Institute of Family Studies.


Geir Tveit

Police Superintendent at Oslo Police District, Gronland Police Station, Norway

Geir Tveit is the Superintendent at Oslo Police District, Gronland Police Station, in Norway. He has

been part of the Police Directorate for over 30 years. During his first few years at the Police Directorate,

Geir worked at the Uniformed Department, patrolling the area. He then began to work as a

neighbourhood police officer, working on prevention strategies. In 2003, Geir became Police

Superintendent and the leader of the Crime Prevention Division at the Gronland Police Station. He is

involved in SALTO (Together For a Safe Oslo), which brings together the police and the community on

a monthly basis to discuss issues of safety.

Lesley Ann Van Selm

Director, Khulisa Social Solutions, South Africa

Lesley Ann van Selm established Khulisa Crime Prevention Initiative in

1997. Over the past 3 years the organisation has ‘reinvented’ itself

resulting in a name change to Khulisa Social Solutions with 3 units –

behaviour change, skills development and enterprise development

resulting in the organisation diversifying sources of income and

minimising dependency on any single source reducing vulnerability. Van

Selm has a long list of accolades recognizing her work at Khulisa. She

has been an Ashoka Fellow since 2001, won the Elizabeth Arden/Elle

Magazine Visible Difference Award in 2002, received the Southern Africa

Social Entrepreneurship (SASE) Award (GIBS) in 2009, and in 2010 was a

finalist in the Ernst & Young Global Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In

2010 she received the Shoprite Checkers Woman of the Year Award in

the Good Neighbours Category.

Elrena van der Spuy

Associate Professor, Centre of Criminology and Department of Public Law, University of Cape

Town, South Africa

Elrena van der Spuy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law, a member of the Centre

of Criminology, and Deputy Dean of Post-Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Law at the University of

Cape Town. She has a PhD from the University of Cape Town, a Masters degree in Sociology from

University of Stellenbosch and has taught Sociology and Criminology at a number of Institutions.

Elrena has published on crime and policing in South Africa, Africa and internationally. More

recently she has begun to explore the role of police in peacekeeping on the one hand, and the role of

the South African police in the border conflict of the post-1976 period of South African history on the

other.


Kalpana Viswanath

Project Director, Gender Inclusive Cities Project, Women in Cities International

Dr. Kalpana Viswanath has been working on issues of women’s rights since

early 1990’s. She is currently Project Director of the Gender Inclusive Cities

Project managed by Women in Cities International and funded by the UN

Trust Fund. She is also Senior Advisor to the Safe Delhi Initiative of Jagori and

Government of Delhi. She has been working with the Government of Delhi in

their efforts to address women’s safety in the city through projects on urban

design and planning, improved policing, improved public transport among

other interventions. She has done research on urban safety in South Asia for

UN Habitat/ESCAP, presented on issues of women’s safety and inclusion in

cities in several forums around the world and has delivered training on

women’s safety audits.

Elizabeth Ward

Chairman, Violence Prevention Alliance, Jamaica

Dr. Elizabeth Ward is a Consultant in the Institute of Criminal Justice,

University of the West Indies and Chair of Board of Directors of the Violence

Prevention Alliance Jamaica. Dr Ward is a medical epidemiologist with years

of public health experience health system. Formerly the Director of Disease

Prevention and Control of Health Promotion and Protection Division in the

Ministry of Health, she saw the development of the Jamaica Injury

Surveillance System (JISS) that tracks hospital based injuries island-wide. Her

work focuses on alliance building, building Safe Violence Free communities,

measuring the cost benfit of prevention, reseach and policy development. Dr

Ward is a member of several technical working groups both locally and

internationally that focus on violence prevention activities.

Graham Wright

Chief Executive Officer, Business Against Crime South Africa

Dr. Graham Wright is the CEO of Business Against Crime South Africa (BACSA), a Non Profit Company

created and sustained by the business community, at the request of government. He has been

involved with BACSA in various capacities over the past decade and was appointed to the position of

CEO in 2009. Prior to joining BACSA, Graham spent many years in the R&D environment at MINTEK,

the University of the Witwatersrand and the CSIR. He has been involved in a broad range of

disciplines, functions and capacities, informed by his interest in science and technology (he has a PhD,

B Sc (Hons), HDE) and the national development priorities.

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