
Advancing Peace
Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love
MIT Press
Published on 7. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-262-55221-9 (ISBN)
Description
"This book demonstrates what can happen when you truly believe that ending a seemingly intractable epidemic--urban gun violence--is indeed possible"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Illustrations
20 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS.
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
334 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-55221-9 (9780262552219)
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Jason Corburn | DeVone Boggan
Advancing Peace
Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love
E-Book
10/2025
MIT Press
€38.99
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Persons
Jason Corburn and DeVone Boggan
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Ending the Epidemic of Urban Gun Violence
2 The Advance Peace Approach
3 Creating an Office of Peacemaking in City Government
4 An Anti-Racist Approach to Ending Gun Violence
5 Neighborhood Change Agents
6 The Fellows in the Peacemaker Fellowship
7 Travel as Healing Therapy
8 The Impacts of Advance Peace
9 Healing People to Heal Places
10 Urban Gun Violence Prevention Policy
11 Sustaining Urban Peace
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
1 Ending the Epidemic of Urban Gun Violence
2 The Advance Peace Approach
3 Creating an Office of Peacemaking in City Government
4 An Anti-Racist Approach to Ending Gun Violence
5 Neighborhood Change Agents
6 The Fellows in the Peacemaker Fellowship
7 Travel as Healing Therapy
8 The Impacts of Advance Peace
9 Healing People to Heal Places
10 Urban Gun Violence Prevention Policy
11 Sustaining Urban Peace
Notes
Index