Community colleges continue to explore innovative ways of promoting global and community peacebuilding. Community mediation is an important contributor to enhancing community wellness. Fostering collaboration between 2-year colleges and conflict resolution practitioners can result in mutual benefits. According to the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) there are approximately 400 volunteer supported centers around theContinueContinue reading “Creating Peacebuilding Partnerships: Community Colleges and Community Mediation”
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Preventing Radicalization and the Role of Community Colleges
Much has been reported lately about the backgrounds of the Tsarnaev brothers who are alleged to have committed the Boston Marathon bombings. We now know much about their Chechen backgrounds, immigration to the U.S., and their life in Boston. Both brothers attended college: Dzhokhar, the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, and Tamerlan, Bunker Hill CommunityContinueContinue reading “Preventing Radicalization and the Role of Community Colleges”
Community Need, Community Response, Community Colleges
The recent Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013 and the explosion at the West (Texas) Fertilizer Plant on April 17, 2013 remind us of the vulnerability that exist in our communities to both large scale disasters as well as the potential for acts of violence perpetrated against civilians for political reasons. These two events,ContinueContinue reading “Community Need, Community Response, Community Colleges”
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