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Transformation
ICP stimulates the development of social norms, policies and practices to support primary violence prevention and community peace. Transformation begins when national and local communities embrace community peace as part of their work. ICP helps communities to transform themselves through:
Communications and Policy Development – ICP provides capacity building support to assist communities in developing and implementing public education campaigns effective at changing norms to support community change.
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Stimulating national movement -- ICP joins with other state, national and local organizations to promote practices, messages, norms and behaviors that foster a safe, peaceful and healthy nation.
- Educating funders and policymakers - ICP participates on advisory groups, conferences and meetings to provide information to grant- and policymakers to support their ability to understand and use community peace into their work.
Community Image and Community Peace – media representations of race and violence. Communities are both helped and harmed by the media’s attention to violence. Exposure of horrific violence events or a pattern of violence can help to ring needed public attention to a community’s violence problems. But when these portrayals intentionally or unwittingly label specific communities or people as violent, it greatly impinges upon the ability to move public perception and policy away from reactionary policies to control crime and toward more progressive policy to build healthy community (link to superpredator and hero deputy papers). ICP builds the capacity of community to develop messages to reframe negative portrayals of community, race and violence toward messages that support community building.
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