The issues of peace, place, home and community are of increasing importance in current international debates about the governance and facilitation of stable communities, the creation of new forms of living and the division of public and private space. Contemporary debates emphasise the breakdown of community life and the prevalence of street crime, anti-social behaviour and civil disobedience in everyday life, whilst increased security measures, surveillance technology and the curtailment of individual freedoms through legislative and/or social control, appear to be an antidote to such risks. Community development and urban renewal in post conflict areas are also of increasing interest and importance as a range of responses and initiatives, similar to those indicated above, are implemented to create and maintain 'street peace' and sustainable communities. This symposium is likely to be of interest not only to those already located in a peace studies environment but also to, for example, criminologists, urban geographers, housing and legal scholars, planners, and practitioners.