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    A tale of two cities: recovering community spaces for peacebuilding in Medellín and Acapulco.
    (TN: Multilingual Matters, 2025) Arizpe, Evelyn; Gormally, Sinéad; Niño Vega, Nohora; Castillo Muñoz, Jerónimo; Suárez Rueda, Manuela; Donoso Jiménez, Javiera; Bahena-Rivera, Alejandro; Hernández Mendoza, Sergio
    The high levels of crime and drug-related urban violence which made Medellín (the capital of Colombia’s Antioquia province) infamous during the 1980s and 1990s were significantly lowered when the city adopted a multi-level strategy that managed to shift policy and transform a range of former spaces of violence into arts and literacy centres, libraries and parks, providing an innovative way to reduce crime rates (Vulliamy, 2013).
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