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Towards a New Paradigm of Public Policy in Rio's Favelas

  • Jailson Silva

*This talk is presented in Portuguese.*

Jailson Silva is a geographer, educator and social activist. He is co-founder of Observatório de Favelas (Favela Observatory) in the Maré slum complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Observatório de Favelas -- Slum Observatory -- is a social organization that undertakes research and public actions to produce knowledge and elaborate innovative policy interventions on slums and urban issues. He earned a B.A. in geography from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, an M.A. in education and Ph.D. in sociology of education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.


This talk is part of a series of speeches and discussions from the Conference on Violence and Policing in Latin American and U.S. Cities. The conference was hosted and organized by the Program on Poverty and Governance at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Presentation: http://stanford.io/1xiREEr. For more information on the Program on Poverty and Governance, please visit http://povgov.stanford.edu and follow #PovGov on Twitter.