Violence, Safety and Community Peace
Overview
As the Institute for Community Peace points out, violence in communities threatens not only our physical safety, it also "diminishes our sense of community and suppresses civic engagement by fostering civic distrust," making organizing around any issue much more difficult. The Boys and Young Men of Color organization, notes “This violence may be manifested by systematic policies that foster disinvestment, by practices that remove jobs from communities, by historical federal and banking practices that denied bank loans to low income communities of color, by current practices that similarly deny mortgage insurance, and by taxation policy that robs communities of the tax revenue for basic services. This violence is not interpersonal, but results in significant harm. This definition of violence is crucial, both as a systemic injustice done to young men and boys of color and as a cause of interpersonal violence.” The resources in this section document several strategies for working towards peace and addressing the violence that persists in many communities.
Research
- Integrating Community Building and Violence Prevention
- The Consequences of Structural Racism, Concentrated Poverty and Violence on Young Men and Boys of Color
- Literature Review: Structural Racism, the Criminal Justice System and Violence Against Women
- Introduction: Native Women and State Violence
- Engaging Communities in Reducing Gun Violence: A Road Map for Safer Communities
Practices
- Case Study: CONTACT Council: Newport, Tennessee
- Community Violence Prevention as a Family Strengthening Strategy
- Engaging Effective Violence Prevention Collaboratives
- Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative
- Lessons unheeded, or how not to repeat a history of violence
- An Evaluation of NCBI Missoula’s Violence Prevention Program
- Michael Brown and the America’s Structural Violence Epidemic
- The Parallels of Racism and A Rape Culture
- Adverse Community Experiences & Resilience: Framework for Addressing & Preventing Community Trauma
- Engaging Communities in Reducing Gun Violence A Road Map for Safer Communities
- Move To End Violence
- Coming to Ferguson: Building a NonViolent Movement
- Community Accountability: How do we Address Violence within our Communities?
- Voting Rights Restoration
- Apocalypse Survival Skill #9: The Right to Defend Ourselves
