Solutions to Violence: Creating Safety Without Prisons or Police

Solutions to Violence profiles 18 groups forging new paths to safety and healing that do not rely on the police or incarceration. The report uplifts restorative justice practitioners, community advocates, and other local leaders who are doing the day-to-day work needed to build stronger and healthier communities, help people heal, and hold those who cause harm responsible for their actions. In this report, readers will learn about a number of solutions, including these and many more:

• Restorative Response Baltimore’s Indigenous-based restorative approach to conflict and harm, which aids in community building and conflict resolution;
• The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention’s responses to violence which involve fostering community and hospital collaborations and advocating for systemic change;
• Advance Peace’s work to interrupt gun violence by creating transformational opportunities for young men of color

Read the full report here.