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CRS serves as "America's Peacemaker" for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.
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Community Relations Service
CRS serves as "America's Peacemaker" for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.
BI Article
The "Two Taproot (or Fuses) Theory" of Social Unrest
Civil rights mediators from the Community Relations Service discuss why racial violence happens--and what needs to be done to prevent it.
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Divided Community Project
DCP provides dispute resolution and systems-design expertise to help local community and university leaders enhance community resiliency and prepare for and respond to events that polarize their communities.
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Crisis-Related Time and Information Pressures
When a crisis occurs, decisions about how to respond have to be made quickly, often on the basis of incorrect or incomplete information. These pressures often cause people to do things that make the situation worse, not better.
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Rumor Control and Crisis Response
Rumors fly quickly during crises and responders need to be able to sort out what is true, what not, and what is most needed immediately, both to control the situation and prevent further harm. A lot needs to happen quickly and carefully, so as to not make the situation worse.
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Dr. Joseph Bock and Team of Mediators Helping to Diffuse Political Violence Across U.S.
Kennesaw State peacebuilders describe their work defusing election violence in Kenya and now in the U.S.
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Nonviolent Peaceforce
Their mission is to protect civilians in violent conflicts through unarmed strategies, build peace side-by-side with local communities, and advocate for the wider adoption of these approaches to safeguard human lives and dignity.
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How Does the CRS Control Rumors
Excerpts from interviews of former CRS Conciliators from the Civil Rights Oral History Project
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Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project
Extensive oral histories of former Community Relations Service Mediators, describing how they defused hot racial and other inter-group conflicts.
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The Interrupters
News and Opinion
If violence spreads like a disease, it can be interrupted. How a new team in Milwaukee is trying to stop one shooting leading to another.
News and Opinion
The United States Needs a Moonshot to Prevent Extremism from Metastasizing
From the RAND Corporation (and the military-industrial complex), an overview of the latest thinking on strategies for combating extremism.