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Peace Cities
Cities of Imagination
Reference Resources
Related Projects
Tribes
Downloadable Documents

Peace Cities

City At Peace - National
Using the performing arts as a vehicle, City at Peace is developing the next generation of engaged community leaders.
Atlanta: City of Peace
Transforming Atlanta into a global capital of peace
Eugene City of Peace
Creating citizen involvement in peace-building practices that result in institutional and policy changes.
Minneapolis City of Peace
Inspiring meaningful involvement by the broader community in the fate of struggling parts of the city.
Summer of Peace
Concerts, conferences, trainings, neighborhood circles, school interventions, civic leadership gatherings, peace pledges and more.
Transition PDX
To look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and unleash the collective genius of the people.
Urban Peace Movement
To shift urban youth culture away from violence and fear and toward hope and empowerment.
CeaseFire Chicago
An evidence-based public health approach to reducing shootings and killings.
Bradford: City for Peace
Peace library, peace studies department, peace museum, campaign groups, local projects and community development work.
United Cities and Local Governments
Represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage.
Mayors for Peace
Working to abolish nuclear weapons and solve problems that threaten peaceful coexistence
World Conference on City Diplomacy
Conference resulted in 'Template for a City of Peace' and the 'The Hague Agenda on City Diplomacy'

Cities of Imagination

Imagine Chicago
Community visioning practices, strength-based communications and community organizing processes.
Appreciative Inquiry
The art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity.
The Real Wealth of Portland
A new economic system based on relationships of partnership rather than domination.
Compassionate Cities
Affirming Karen Armstrong's Charter of Compassion to stimulate volunteer community service projects.

Reference Resources

World Peace through Town Halls
The most comprehensive and feasible plan ever put forward to achieve world peace, by David Adams, UNESCO director 1992-2001.
Why Is Primary Prevention A "Systemic" Process?
One chapter of "Making the Case for Domestic Violence Prevention Through the Lens of Cost-Benefit."
Prevention Institute: Violence Prevention
A systems approach to developing effective prevention initiatives.
Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth
A paradigm shift from programs to strategy.
Values, Attitudes and Behaviors: Culture of War to Culture of Peace
Alternatives proposed to each of the eight characteristics of a culture of war.
Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General
The most cost-effective intervention is parent training.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Provides national leadership, coordination, and resources.
International Institute for Restorative Practices
Positive changes in human behavior when those in positions of authority do things with them, rather than to them or for them.
Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control
Research, evaluation, and implementation of violence prevention programs.
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
Electronic Clearinghouse providing an extensive pool of up-to-date educational resources about all types of violence.
Blueprints Model Programs Overview
To identify truly outstanding violence and drug prevention programs that meet a high scientific standard of effectiveness.
Washington State Institute for Public Policy
Cost-benefit analysis in education, criminal justice, welfare, children and adult services, health, utilities, and general government.

Related Projects

BePeace Program
A practice that combines a method for "feeling peace" with "speaking peace" to create authentic, compassionate connection.
Challenge Day
Experiential workshops and programs for youth that demonstrate the possibility of love and connection.
Tariq Khamisa Foundation
Dedicated to Breaking the Cycle of Youth Violence by Empowering Kids, Saving Lives, and Teaching Peace. .
Break the Cycle
Addressing teen dating violence.
End of Violence
"Violence Integrative Prevention and Restoration Model": evidence-based, cognitive approach to violence built upon a public health foundation.
Male Challenge
Resources for adults who will help boys and young men navigate the rocky road towards manhood.
National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
Fostering a world of conversation, participation and action.
The Peace Alliance
Empowering civic engagement toward a culture of peace.
Politics of Hope
Leadership education for individuals, public agencies, and organizations.
The Eight Paths to Peace
Each of us has a particular attraction for one path in particular.
Genuine Progress Indicator
If policymakers measure what really matters to people economic policy would naturally shift towards sustainability.
Community Indicators Handbook
2nd edition integrates the basics of building an indicator project with the best practices of projects around the country.
Peace in 5 Years
Four cornerstones to creating peace: Reposition, Include Everyone, Collaborate, Ease of Use.
Community Weaving
Innovative approach to foster a community of responsible citizens.
Communities of Peace
Providing a format for people to identify themselves as peacemakers.
Rhythm of Peace
Daily themes to cultivate peace in our homes, families, and workplaces.
The Nobel Peace Laureate Project
Inspiring future peacemakers by honoring American winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
The Human Rights City Project
Ensuring that human rights are a central part of every City program in Eugene, Oregon.
Community Mediation Services
Transforming conflict and facilitating positive communication in Eugene, Oregon.
The Co-Intelligence Institute
Democratic renewal, community wisdom, organizational transformation, global crises and the creation of just, vibrant, sustainable cultures.
NVC Academy
Learn Nonviolent Communication at home.

Tribes

Seth Godin on TED.com
Tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change.
Tribe building tactics
How to engage people, build community and identity, create connections and participation.

Downloadable Documents

Appreciative Inquiry

4-D definition.pdf
Definitions of the 4 steps in the Appreciative Inquiry Process 62k
Child_As_Agent.pdf
What creates a sense of wonder as we inquire into organizational life, and what spoils it? What are the varieties of wonder? What is the connection of wonder to knowledge? 133k
Overview of AI.pdf
4-page description of AI by Bliss Browne of Imagine Chicago 110k
Ten Years of Imagination.pdf
The story of Imagine Chicago by its founder, Bliss Browne 2411k
WhyCities?Browne.pdf
Sustainability planning is not about management but about leadership on behalf of what is possible and vital; it requires vision, imagination and the ability to discern collective will and good beyond the current horizons. 194k

Culture of Peace

HUMAN SECURITY EQUALS PEACE.pdf
1994 UN Human Development Report equates peace with security. 75k
LocalProgress.PeaceCulture.pdf
A Culture of Peace Index Proposal for Self-assessment of a city in the eight UN Culture of Peace program areas 66k
WhatIsCultureOfPeace.pdf
UN definition of a culture of peace 64k
WorldPeace_TownHall.pdf
A digest of “World Peace through the Town Hall” by David Adams 93k

Declarations

hague_agenda_en.pdf
Hague Agenda on City Diplomacy 35k
ICPIntentLe.pdf
Dear Colleague letter, introducing International Cities of Peace 351k
ICPIntent.pdf
Letter of Intent to become a City of Peace, for signatures 253k

Peace Education Proposals

Cities1Intro.pdf
Display banner, introducing the vision of a world of Cities of Peace 303k
Cities2Why.pdf
Display Banner, Why are Cities of Peace Important? 541k
Cities3What.pdf
Display Banner, listing 10 different ways to define a City of Peace 593k
Cities4Culture.pdf
Display Banner, What is a Culture of Peace? 436k
Cities5Dayton.pdf
Delineates progress towards a culture of peace in Dayton, Ohio and is customizable for any city. 1102k
Cities6Economy.pdf
Relates peace to economic activity. 339k
Community Indicators.pdf
Describes the Community Indicators Handbook published by Real Progress for improving general quality of life. 47k
ICOPSession1.pdf
Jerry Leggett - envisioning sequence of questions for a City of Peace. 282k

Social process

campaignforcompassionatecities21510.pdf
Introduction to the campaign for compassionate cities 408k
CivSocPartners.pdf
Peacebuilding and the power of civil society partnerships 83k
Community Weaving.pdf
Core principles of community weaving 8k
Consensus.pdf
Consensus is “organic” 58k
ContemplativeCatastrophe excerpt.pdf
Learning to live with eyes wide open through circles of trust 53k
Core_Principles_of_Public_Engagement.pdf
Citizens and government must work together to build a society that protects individual freedom while simultaneously ensuring liberty and justice for all. 141k
DECISION-MAKING PROCESS.pdf
Process is the key to revolutionary change. 79k
DeepSocialNetworks92109.pdf
Sustainable development and deep social networks 593k
Intimacy&Privacy.pdf
Reflections on building trust by David Hazen 33k
The_Heart_of_Social_Change_for_SS_Group.pdf
The Heart of Social Change or How to Make a Difference in Your World - using Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg 129k
TURF_1S.pdf
Rather than suppressing concerns about turf, coalition leaders must find ways to incorporate that passion into the overall coalition effort. 649k

Strategies

dialogue_dinner_overview_guidelines_questions.pdf
Dinners to foster thinking and conversation on critical issues related to peace, justice, community well-being, and change. 110k
JobCreationProposal.pdf
Roadmap to a New Caring Economy by Riane Eisler 251k
RestorativePractice.pdf
Repairing harm done to people and relationships through participatory learning and decision-making produces happier, more productive and cooperative outcomes. 564k
ritual-and-activism.pdf
The importance of ritual in social transformation. 142k
Transforming_Our_Communities_to_Heal_Our_Veterans.pdf
We must provide everything our warriors need in order to return, recover and be restored to full functioning and life. 21k

Violence Prevention

CDC Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention.pdf
The public health approach is a four-step process that can be applied to violence and other health problems that affect populations 127k
CDC Social-Ecological Model.pdf
Prevention strategies should include a continuum of activities that address multiple levels of the model 83k
Child Delinquency May 2003.PDF
Citing the increase in very young child delinquents, the reasons for early intervention. 940k
EarlyChildhood.pdf
The economic case for investing in early childhood development 2855k
InvestVeryYoung.pdf
The development of social skills and self-discipline begin very early in life. 264k
Preventing Violence- A Primer.pdf
A primer on preventing violence from the Prevention Institute 85k
violence epidemic.pdf
The dimensions and root causes of violence in the United States and an alternative, community-based, public health approach to violence prevention. 238k
WSIPP.Cost-Benefit.Sept.04.pdf
Washington State Institute for Public Policy analysis of cost-benefit ratios of early intervention programs for youth 523k

 
 

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