Security in the City

Peter Albrecht from DIIS has contributed to the Clingendael coordinated project, Informing policy on plural security provision in urban contexts: Comparative insights from Lebanon, Kenya and Tunisia.

The aim of the project has been to foster more effective security and rule of law policy and practice by producing empirically-based insights on how structures of local urban governance might interact with local security providers improved outcomes for people.

With a number of other researchers, Peter Albrecht was involved in producing the study for Nairobi, Kenya. It illustrates the need for Kenyan government policies, municipal initiatives and international support for Kenyan security services to take into consideration the legacy of state neglect for citizens living in poor urban settlements. Currently, this history of neglect and its implications for notions of the ‘public good’, do not appear sufficiently salient in national security policies.

Reports for Beirut, Lebanon, and Tunis, Tunisia, as well as a synthesis report that discusses all three can be found here.

Findings of the study were presented at the International Security Forum in June 2016. Peter Albrecht presented findings from the Nairobi study.