Who We Are

The Institute for Community Peace (ICP) is a national organization that transforms community by changing the structures that cause social problems. ICP integrates practice, research, and innovation to support a broad audience of local and national partners. Supported by research, our structural change model places community will as the central driver of structural change. Our work also supports equal partnership among community and the larger domains in which they are embedded in the resolution of enduring social problems.



Occupy Wall Street and the Future of Collective Action
by Billy Buntinposted 4/2/2012 2:17:02 PM
Unless you’ve been occupying the underside of a rock lately, you must by now be familiar with the Occupy Wall Street movement and its many spinoffs. A movement that began in September, in New York has spread ...

It Takes A Village To Make A Self-Made Man
by Billy Buntinposted 4/2/2012 2:16:51 PM
We live in an interconnected world. Recent technological advances have made it even more so. Each of us in the United States lives in a country, state and community comprised of people working, living ...

Announcing the Community Peace Bulletin
by ICP Bloggerposted 1/23/2012 10:03:35 AM
Welcome to the Community Peace Bulletin ...


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