We are a civic architecture and infrastructure that braids social justice, democracy, and legal and peace-building communities
The TRUST Network is a broad U.S. network designed to prevent violent conflict and build community cohesion. In order to prevent violence, reduce division, strengthen our democracy, and address legacies of injustice, we are
growing a network of collaboration across four sectors in the fields of peacebuilding, social/racial/ and environmental justice, legal sector, and democracy work;
establishing a first-of-its-kind citizen-run Early Warning Early Action infrastructure developed specifically for the United States;
connecting international and national-level expertise and advocacy to local initiatives that are convened by community mediation and justice centers on the ground, so that communities are supported in generating and self-determining solutions to their long-standing problems (in keeping with the intent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Section 10).
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Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI) is the organizational host. The National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) and Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development (CPDD) [formerly Election Incident Reporting (EIRUSA)] are key process facilitators. These three founding co-conveners are joined by a rapidly expanding partnership of, currently, national organizations and networks, 32 convening centers and several hundred individuals each of whom has training and/or experience in mediative, restorative or other nonviolent community-building practices.
The TRUST Network is connecting and interweaving capacities that already exist and fueling them with information they might not otherwise have, for the greater efficacy of all.
May 2023
“We need methodological pluralism, so not just one type of organization, but multiple different organizations with multiple skills, groups who were doing democracy work, groups who had experience monitoring elections, the sort of pure peacebuilding organization, et cetera, all kind of woven together through the central nervous system of a community-based early warning system.”
Beyond Intractability / Read Full Article