CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACEBUILDING

​PSA! 

I just love the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. They are doing wonderful things throughout our community, country and world. 

I dream of the day when conflict resolution and peacebuilding are the norm instead of division, polarization, mass incarceration, our antiquated, insane, highly illogical, fiscally irresponsible legal system, and also ongoing conflict and issues in families, which I have also sadly been suffering from the past couple years as well as in my community. 

I am really trying to work on inner peace and self-love so that I can be the change that I dream of in our community, world and even in my family, although this does not necessarily come naturally to me due to my upbringing and also conditioning. There is a better way and greater good that I would like to believe that we are evolving towards, however, and I am trying my best to be a genuine, positive, optimistic, peaceful person myself.  


"Community conflict continues to drive animosity, polarization, and violence that we can see in our neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, families, and relationships. Currently, when a local conflict occurs, the options for recourse are predominantly limited to those offered by the civil and criminal justice system which may be difficult, expensive, time-consuming, and disempowering, and lack the ability to offer a response that addresses the conflict in a holistic, human-centered way. Furthermore, conflicts that are personal in nature are often neglected by these approaches altogether and left entirely unaddressed.
While conflict happens,
our response is up to us.
The Conflict Solution Hub is a new, innovative way of providing the tools, resources, strategies, and spaces necessary to address conflict comprehensively and appropriately."


https://www.centerforpeacebuilding.org/conflict-solution-hub