Theme: Emotional Safety, Sanctuary, and the Right to Be

Focus: Beyond policing – safety as dignity, trust, and relational presence. Includes housing dignity, sanctuary practices, emotional climates of fear or safety, mental health, and human security. Emotional, ancestral, and cultural ties to place.

Research Basis: Loss of Emotional Safety in Urban Life; Cities as Emotional Ecosystems; Crisis of Belonging.

Thematic Action Ideas: Housing-first pilots, sanctuary city dialogues, mental health initiatives.

Key Question: What makes a city safe—not just from harm, but for flourishing?

Expected Outcomes: Frameworks for human-centred security, integration of emotional climate, housing, and wellbeing into urban safety agendas.