The Center on Violence and Recovery is dedicated to advancing knowledge on the causes of and responses to a wide range of violence, including abuse, terrorism, natural and manmade catastrophes, or other personal or community traumas.
The Center on Violence and Recovery was born out of founder Linda G. Mills' converging work...
The Center on Violence and Recovery is dedicated to advancing knowledge on the causes of and responses to a wide range of violence, including abuse, terrorism, natural and manmade catastrophes, or other personal or community traumas. The Center does this by conducting research on alternative interventions to violence that galvanize stakeholders to draw on personal resources, such as family, friends, cultural ties and spiritual beliefs, to heal; offering technical assistance to community partners interested in alternative responses to violence; and raising awareness about violence generally with the hope of interrupting its transmission from one generation to the next.
The Center was born out of founder Linda G. Mills' converging work in intimate abuse and community mental health, and was inspired by recovery efforts following the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. Dr. Mills lives a few blocks from Ground Zero. In the aftermath of the attacks, she, along with other NYU researchers and mental health experts, assisted lower Manhattan schools and residents through a community resiliency program funded by Project Liberty. During the same period, Dr. Mills wrote Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate Abuse (Princeton, 2003), in which she proposed "Intimate Abuse Circles," a domestic violence intervention based on restorative justice principles. To integrate this work in violence and recovery, Dr. Mills established the Center in July 2004.
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