Transformations

Stories of practitioners working to reduce violence in communities

This volume emphatically reminds us that violence exerted repeatedly and at scale requires a combination of intentional disempowerment, dehumanization, brutalization, exploitation, and isolation. The collective contributions in the edited volume expose these forms of marginalization and othering. Their works put forward a call to action: to continue advocating for the kind of transformative change that our contributors and those on the losing side of IBMV demand and deserve.

The concrete policy recommendations outlined in the volume seek to direct a much greater balance of resources toward the transformation of the structures, institutions, and systems that enable violence. This commitment to address the structural conditions forces new thinking and requires operating in new, specific, targeted, and sometimes imaginative ways.

The good news is that communities are, in many ways, already doing this innovative work. It is time for us to listen more intently and more often. Learn about some of these transformational stories in the videos below.