Fundación Paz Ciudadana, along with Motorola Solutions Foundation, has the pleasure to invite you to the XII International Conference "Challenges for the Security of our Cities: Management of Territories for the Prevention of Crime and Violence". The objective of this event is to present initiatives and strategies that contribute to the prevention of crime and violence, in addition to promote the use of information and empirical evidence to generate better public policies on the matter.

World leading experts in this field will present their views and experience over the three-day conference. In addition, the most outstanding crime prevention practices selected from the 10th International Competition on “Promising Initiatives and Good Practices in Citizen Security Information Management” will be presented at the Conference.

October 19th

9:00 a 12:30

“Challenges for prevention”
Vía Zoom

9.00 - 9.30
Opening
Daniel Johnson, Executive Director of Fundación Paz Ciudadana.
Greetings from authorities
9.30 - 10.30
Symposium
Manuel Eisner, Wolfson Professor of Criminology and Director of the Violence Research Center at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambrigde. Evidence for better lives
10.30 - 10.45
Break
10.45 - 11.30
Good practices
10.45 - 11.30: Presentation of promising initiatives and best practices selected in the framework of the 10th International Competition on Promising Initiatives and Best Practices in Information Management in Citizen Security.
11.30 - 12.30
Symposium
Deborah Koetzle, professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati and research fellow at the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute. Strategies to prevent recidivism among juvenile offenders.
October 20th

9:00 a 12:15

“Violence and crime in neighborhoods and cities”
Vía Zoom

9.00 - 9.15
Opening
Daniel Johnson, Executive Director of Fundación Paz Ciudadana.
Greetings from authorities
9.15 - 10.15
Symposium
Thomas Abt, chairs the Violent Crime Task Force of the Criminal Justice Council. He also recently chaired the National Commission on Covid 19 and Criminal Justice at the same Council. Urban violence and prevention
10:15 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:15
Good practices
10.30 - 11.15: Presentation of promising initiatives and best practices selected in the framework of the 10th International Competition on Promising Initiatives and Best Practices in Information Management in Citizen Security.
11.15 - 12:15
Symposium
Alejandro Echeverri, co-founder and director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Studies URBAM at EAFIT University in Medellín. Paisaje urbano y sus implicancias para la equidad territorial y la seguridad ciudadana
October 21st

9:00 a 12:30

“Cultural change at the heart of police reforms”
Vía Zoom

9.00 - 9.15
Apertura
Daniel Johnson, Executive Director of Fundación Paz Ciudadana.
Guest to be confirmed
9.15 - 10.15
Symposium
Lawrence Sherman, research director of the Jerry Lee Center for Experimental Criminology and director of the Cambridge Police Executive Program. Police reforms and rogue police culture.
10.15 - 10.30
Break
10.30 - 11.30
Panel
10.30 - 11.30: Police reform in Chile. Panel of experts to discuss progress, challenges, difficulties and opportunities to implement this state policy.
Modera: Daniel Johnson.
Participan: Juan Francisco Galli, Subsecretario de Interior; Alejandra Mohor, académica de la Universidad de Chile; y Antonio Frey, coordinador de Seguridad Pública del Gobierno Regional Metropolitano y ex Subsecretario de Prevención del Delito.
11.30 - 12:30
Symposium
Edward Maguire, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University, where he also serves as director of the Public Safety Innovation Lab. Evidence-based policing, police brutality and the need of implementing police reforms.