Vision & Mission

Vision:

Communities and individuals will recognize they can safely and effectively resolve conflicts themselves-when provided with an appropriate structure to do so.

Mission:

To provide a highly participatory, community-based process for people to transform their conflicts into cooperation, take collective and personal responsibility for action, and improve their quality of life. Through partnerships with people, neighborhoods, governments and institutions, the Community Conferencing Center helps Maryland communities resolve conflicts and crimes within their own communities.

Operating Principles:

• Conflicts present opportunities for learning, healing and transformation.
• People will generate creative and lasting solutions to their conflicts when everyone affected by a conflict is given a safe forum to tell his or her story and be part of the solution.
• Conflicts within communities are best resolved within those communities.
• Mobilization of existing assets and building community cohesiveness are paramount to quality of life.
• Violence can be prevented if people are given a safe forum to collectively resolve their conflicts.

Our Work

The Community Conferencing Center is the first and only multi-sector program being conducted in a large American inner-city, offering services for:

• Schools
• For Law Enforcement
• Returning from Prison
• Workplaces
• Returning from Military Service
• Auto Theft
• Serious Crimes Conferencing
• Juvenile Justice
• Neighborhoods