Building new ways to understand and confront violence.
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Kelly Miller Smith
Convocation
We are here to understand violence, produce agents who confront it, and cultivate peace, justice, and civil discourse through research, policy and practice.
Our catalyst to new knowledge and action
VOCATION
How people become oriented toward possibility, purpose, scholarship, leadership, public life, service and forms of being with others.
VOICE
Who can speak, be heard, make meaning and participate; story, music, sound, speech, archives, narrative and discourse as world-making forces.
VIOLENCE
How place, institutions, punishment, relations, embodiment and historical accumulation degrade or constrain sense-making and possibility.
WHAT WE DO
Violence is never a
final solution to any
problem,
– KELLY MILLER SMITH
Partner with us.
JPL partners with institutions, communities, funders, researchers, educators, policymakers, and practitioners who believe that confronting violence requires more than one discipline, one sector, or one solution.
Invest in research, student development, public programming, infrastructure, and expansion.
Develop research initiatives, educational experiences, policy projects, community programs, and new models for practice.
Contribute data, subject-matter knowledge, networks, mentorship, and institutional capacity.
Host JPL programs, conversations, simulations, trainings, and public experiences.
Help bring JPL’s questions, research, and methods to communities throughout the Southern Black Belt and beyond.
LET’S CONNECT
Let’s build
together.
Bring your time. Your talent. Your treasure. Your questions. Tell us how you would like to connect with JPL.