Community Resiliency Initiative
Community Resiliency Initiative
Explore broad-based community planning efforts to address division in their communities.
The Divided Community Project’s (DCP) Community Resiliency Initiative is a coalition of community leaders who have convened broad-based community planning efforts to address division in their communities. In spring 2017, the Divided Community Project secured funding from the AAA-ICDR Foundation to enable Community Resiliency Initiative members to develop case studies which describe local dispute planning initiatives that address controversies and confrontations that divide communities.
Collectively, the case studies illustrate various methods for convening broad-based community planning efforts. Each case study includes an illustrative flow chart of the processes used in each community, connecting each pilot project’s work with DCP guidance articulated in the report, Leading a Community During Times of Conflict. For example, the Columbus Community Trust initiated a broad-based community planning process, assessed community division, designed processes to raise problems and work with public officials, hosted forums to establish patterns of constructive practices, and began developing concrete plans for civil unrest.
Case Studies
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Rochester’s Community Response Team
Study 1 illustrates the work of the Rochester Community Response Team, an effort launched through the work of a local dispute resolution center and a local newspaper, which began developing plans for a collective community response to civil unrest.
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Orlando Speaks
Study 2 describes Orlando Speaks, a new approach to police-community dialogue developed through a partnership between the City of Orlando, the Orlando Police Department, and Valencia College Peace and Justice Institute. The Appendix includes documents referenced in the Orlando Speaks case study.
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Strengthening Communities Project
Study 3 discusses the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center’s Strengthening Communities Project, convened by a non-profit dispute resolution center in San Mateo County, California.
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Columbus Community Trust
Study 4 highlights the work of the volunteer Columbus Community Trust, convened with support from the Columbus Bar Association and the John Mercer Langston Bar Association, with support from the local U.S. Attorney’s office.
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Unity in the Community-San Leandro
Study 5 describes Unity in the Community-San Leandro, a group of San Leandro (California) volunteers who convened in response to a series of local hate incidents.
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Winston-Salem, NC
This case study describes the work of Winston-Salem community leaders with the Divided Community Project and the Community Relations Service.
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Bloomington, IN
This case study describes the work of Bloomington community leaders as they work with DCP through a community crisis and as they develop a task force on community policing.
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Kenyon College
This case study describes Kenyon College and what participants in a Divided Community Project three-day academy created to deal with conflict after returning to campus.
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