Collaboration

for a Safe Society

Barbara Holtmann 28 January 2011

Safe Communities of Opportunity

• Security: defence or protection against a known or perceived threat.

• Safety: the need for less security.

• Not everything is about crime and violence; but safety is about just about

everything

• Local safety approaches must bring together the perspectives, understanding

and vision of local actors in collaborative, integrative approaches

• Safety strategies must overcome the fragile social systems that are the

legacy of Apartheid and that perpetuate vulnerability and increase the risks of

a cycle of crime and violence.

• Unsafety is the failure of a social system; thus it requires a systemic

approach that embraces the complexity of the problem and delivers a

systemic solution focused on people, technology and innovation.

• Collaboration not coordination

• The model elaborates the complex relationships amongst elements of safety

elicited through community and expert consultation, review of literature and

analysis of policy”

• The “Safe Community of Opportunity” model is proposed a

as the centre of a strategy for a Safe South Africa.

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Software support system

The model facilitates:

•A shared vision of “what it looks like when its safe”

• Three simple indicators per element

•Consensus on the current status of each element

•Computes a score for each element

•Suggests relationships and a value for each relationship

•Computes a score for the elements based on their own score and their relationships with others

•Computes an over-all score for the system/community/institution

•Consensus on stakeholder roles

•Collaborative partnerships based only on mutual benefit

•Consensus on interventions and their value

•Opportunity to revisit and identify shifts, obstacles

•REAL IMPACT for social systemic transformation

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When we think the future we think children but children are the product of our families and communities; if we want to depend on our children for the future we must stengthen and support our communities from within. bm.holtmann@gmail.com