How reducing inequality will make our cities safer

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Urban violence concentrates in specific places, among certain people and at very particular times Image: REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas

Robert Muggah

Co-founder, SecDev Group and Co-founder, Igarapé Institute

Sameh Wahba

Global Director, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice, World Bank

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