We build just, inclusive, nonviolent
communities through education and action.
A Declaration of Peace
The Peace Center is dedicated to creating and protecting affirming spaces that embrace cultural humility and create ties of respect and appreciation across generations, cultures, race, class, region, religion, gender, and sexual identity, in order to build an inclusive community.
The Peace Center understands nonviolence as the presence of love and kindness. We understand nonviolence as a loud resistance to social inequalities and oppression. More than nonviolence, we believe in peace. We faithfully believe that through acts of love and kindness, harmful and oppressive environments can be dismantled. We believe that where peace exists, violence can not.
The Peace Center recognizes justice as upholding fairness, ensuring access to resources needed to live a quality life, equitable treatment under the law. To us, justice looks like every member of our community getting enough of what they need to flourish regardless of their race, zip code, wealth, gender, sexual orientation, culture. To achieve justice in the Richmond region and beyond, we have to hold those in power, and one another, accountable, acknowledging and calling out injustices and their consequences. With this acknowledgment, we call and work for restorative justice that breaks the barriers of access and opportunity.
The Peace Center, as a community, is committed to unlearning the racist concepts and oppressive practices that have been ingrained in all who live in a racist society.
The Peace Center is committed to being accountable by acknowledging harm done to others—intentional and unintentional, and to growing through experiences by learning how to do better.
The Peace Center promises to welcome, share, educate, and support all who wish to learn, grow, and resist injustice and oppression.
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History
Since 1980, the Richmond Peace Education Center has been an unwavering voice for peaceful conflict resolution, social justice, and nonviolent social change in the Richmond, Virginia region. Over the years the center has evolved, developing new programs and areas of focus to meet new concerns.
Today the Richmond Peace Education Center is working actively to build a more peaceful and just community and world. Through its workshops, public events, youth programs, and conflict resolution training, RPEC is making a difference in the region.
From the beginning, RPEC has been a grassroots, member-supported organization. We simply could not do what we do without the participation and support of community members like you. Please join us for an upcoming program or event and join our contact list today.
Together we can build a more peaceful and just community and world.