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Fight & Flight are not the only options.

Having the choice to either destroy or avoid the parts of life that are threatening or make us fearful is too limiting. With only these choices what kind of relationships will we have? With only these choices what kind of vision is possible for the world? With only these choices what future do we have to live?

Violence is a problem

We live in a culture with pervasive violence. The evidence has mounted, over the course of history, and it reveals that violence is not a viable way forward for our global communities, local communities, or our families. Violence always brings more violence; we need solutions stronger than violence. Too often our solutions disagree and are off-key with our goal; we need solutions that agree and harmonize with the goal of peace.

Particulars on
The Problem of Violence

  1. We have been taught, implicitly and explicitly, that violence is a solution.

  2. We have not been equipped or empowered to respond to differences, disagreements, and conflict in healthy ways.

  3. We are blind to our own participation and complicity with violence.

  4. We misunderstand violence and peace.

  5. We lack the creativity, imagination, and generational commitment to subvert the forms and forces of violence in our world.

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
— Jesus (Matthew 5:9)
“It is possible to live in peace.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

PRH Mission

Peace Right Here works to recover and reshape imaginations to embrace, practice, and champion alternatives to violence.

PRH PRograms To Address
the problem of Violence

  1. Nonviolence Education — We teach peace and nonviolence most often through the framework of Kingian Nonviolence; which was most notably championed by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Right Movement.

  2. Champion | Peace Artist Series — We collaborate with artists to more fully understand what it means to practice peace in our lives. For big ideas, like peace and nonviolence, we need space for our minds, hearts, and bodies to cultivate deeper understandings and artist communities are specially capable of creating pieces and experiences that establish the room needed for transformational growth.

  3. Advancing Practices of Peace — We focus on 12 core practices that build healthy relationships and it is through our engagement in these practices that we are encouraged down the path of peace. We believe that when you put yourself in the way of a practice it will, over time, change the way you live. The 12 core practices of peace are for every day and season of life.