Mission possible: ending gun violence in America’s Black and brown communities. As COVID-19 took hold, urban gun violence exploded--but not in four cities in California. What did these cities have in common? The Advance Peace gun violence prevention program. In With powerful evidence and heartfelt stories from the front lines, the authors describe a transformation based on compassion and redemption. Without overlooking the legacy of slavery, racism, and poverty in America’s urban areas, the book lays out evidence-based, practical, cost-effective steps that tap the forces of unconditional love, forgiveness, and unyielding focus to restore a sense of purpose to those at the center of the crisis and to heal their communities.

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Jason Corburn and DeVone Boggan

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"This book demonstrates what can happen when you truly believe that ending a seemingly intractable epidemic--urban gun violence--is indeed possible"-- Provided by publisher.

Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Ending the Epidemic of Urban Gun Violence
2 The Advance Peace Approach
3 Creating an Office of Peacemaking in City Government
4 An Anti-Racist Approach to Ending Gun Violence
5 Neighborhood Change Agents
6 The Fellows in the Peacemaker Fellowship
7 Travel as Healing Therapy
8 The Impacts of Advance Peace
9 Healing People to Heal Places
10 Urban Gun Violence Prevention Policy
11 Sustaining Urban Peace
Notes
Index