Building Bridges in Police-Youth Relations through Experiential Peacebuilding: How Reduced Threat and Increased Humanization Impact Racialized Structural and Direct Violence in Baltimore

Autor/inn/en	Phillips, Nicole Jene; Cromwell, Alexander
Titel	Building Bridges in Police-Youth Relations through Experiential Peacebuilding: How Reduced Threat and Increased Humanization Impact Racialized Structural and Direct Violence in Baltimore
Quelle	In: Journal of Peace Education, 17 (2020) 3, S.324-345 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Phillips, Nicole Jene)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-0201
DOI	10.1080/17400201.2020.1782181
Schlagwörter	Peace; Violence; Youth Programs; Police Community Relationship; Experiential Learning; Program Descriptions; Intergroup Relations; Program Evaluation; Anxiety; Trust (Psychology); Barriers; Generalization; Crime; Case Studies; Racial Segregation; African Americans; Attitude Change; Maryland (Baltimore) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frieden; Gewalt; Jugendsofortprogramm; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Angst; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Rassentrennung; Afroamerikaner; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung
Abstract	In the United States, trust in law enforcement is plummeting alongside increased crime rates and police-involved killings, primarily of unarmed black men, making this social issue of imminent importance. Moreover, globally, security actor reform and relationship-building between communities and security forces is essential to post-conflict reconstruction and violence prevention. This research examines Outward Bound's Police Youth Challenge (PYC) program with officers and youth in Baltimore to assess the long-term impact of encounter-based peace education programs that use experiential peacebuilding to bridge divides between youth and security actors. To achieve this goal, interviews, focus groups, and observations were conducted with youth, officers, and key informants, and we conducted analysis of secondary data collected by Outward Bound and external evaluators. We found that PYC reduced intergroup anxiety and threat through building trust and facilitating mutual humanization between the youth and officers, which countered officers' meta-dehumanization. However, challenges arose in participants generalizing these attitudes to the broader population outside of the contact situation. Consequently, we recommend follow-on activities to sustain transformations and promote their generalization to other out-group members. These findings suggest the importance of utilizing experiential peacebuilding to improve attitudes and relationships between security actors and the local populations they police. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01