Advance Peace Statement on Reimaging Public Safety
Infusing Love into Public Policy, Infrastructure and Practice to Advance Peace In recent weeks, the prospect of defunding police departments has gained massive support. On Sunday, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council committed to dismantling and reimagining its public safety infrastructure, declaring that "efforts at incremental reform have failed." This is momentous, considering the fact that the Minneapolis Police
ADVANCE PEACE Street Outreach Work at the Intersection of COVID-19 in Vulnerable Communities
Greetings Advance Peace Partners, I hope that this finds you and your family well. I wanted to share a few things about how street outreach work designed for and directed at violence prevention and intervention within our most impacted communities is filling the COVID-19 response gap in under resourced neighborhoods. Trained, developed and appropriately resourced, Street Outreach Teams can be
Why Advance Peace and the Peacemaker Fellowship?
“To the extent that human needs are not satisfied, human dysfunction will occur, and, in order to remedy the human dysfunction, activity must developed and structured so as to be responsive to the unmet needs” —unknown Advance Peace is a very practical approach to disrupting gun violence in American urban neighborhoods. Advance Peace effectively equips those at the center of
Staying Clean in a Mud Puddle
“Those closest to the problem are closest to the solution, but furthest from resources and power.” —Glenn E. Martin, JustLeadershipUSA Our Peacemaker Fellowship in Richmond California has contributed to a 71% reduction in firearm assaults causing injury or death in 2016, the lowest since the Fellowship was launched in June 2010. After the conclusion of our fourth 18-month Fellowship cohort
I Believe in the So-Called Impossible
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.” —Booker T. Washington I truly believe that we can end gun violence in American urban communities as we know it. This belief is a by-product of my nearly nine (9) years in Richmond California as its Neighborhood Safety