Local Practicum Sites
BTI Listing of Peacemaking Organizations in the Greater Boston Area[1]
Albert Einstein Institution
The mission of the Albert Einstein Institution is to advance the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict. The Institution is committed to defending democratic freedoms and institutions, opposing oppression, dictatorship, and genocide, and reducing reliance on violence as an instrument of policy.
Jamila Raqib, Executive Director
The Albert Einstein Institution
P.O. Box 455
East Boston, MA 02128
Phone: 617-247-4882
Email: einstein@igc.org
Alternatives to Violence Program (AVP)
AVP seeks to empower people to lead nonviolent lives through affirmation, respect for all, community building, cooperation, and trust.
Nancy Shippen
Eastern Mass. AVP
15 Lilac Court
Acton, MA 01720
Phone: 978-264-0385
Email: nancyshippen@comcast.net
Asian American Resource Workshop
The Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW) works to empower the Asian Pacific American community through community education, art and culture programming, advocacy, and information and resource provision.
Janet Gee, Administrative Manager
33 Harrison Avenue, 5th floor
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: 617-426-5313
E-mail: info@aarw.org
http://www.aarw.org/
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
The mission of the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence is to eliminate family violence and to strengthen Asian families and communities. Founded in 1987, the Task Force represents a group of diverse Asian community leaders concerned about the incidence of domestic violence in Asian communities. Initially, the Task Force worked to educate Asian communities and battered women’s service providers and develop culturally appropriate resources for battered Asian women.
KoKo Oyama
P.O. Box 120108,
Boston, MA 02112
Phone: 617-338-2350 x227
Email: asiandv@atask.org ; hiroko@atask.org
Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights
BCRHHR’s mission is to provide comprehensive health care for refugees and survivors of torture and related trauma, coordinated with legal aid and social services. The Center also exist to educate and train agencies and professionals who serve this patient population, to advocate for the promotion of health and human rights in the United States and worldwide, and to conduct clinical, epidemiological, and legal research for the better understanding and promotion of health and quality of life for survivors of torture and related trauma.
Erica Hastings, Case Coordinator
Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights
Boston Medical Center
Dowling 7
1 Boston Medical Center Place
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-4794
Email: Erica.Hastings@bmc.org
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, Inc.
CDA is a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts committed to improving the effectiveness of international actors who provide humanitarian assistance, engage in peace practice, and are involved in supporting sustainable development. We strive for a world in which communities and nations demonstrate resilience, drive their own development, and resolve conflicts without resorting to armed violence.
Peter J. Woodrow, Executive Director
One Alewife Center, Suite 400
Cambridge, MA 02140-2315
Phone: 617-661-6310
Email: cda@cdacollaborative.org
http://www.cdacollaborative.org
Consensus Building Institute
The Consensus Building Institute (CBI) is a not-for-profit organization created by leading practitioners and theory builders in the fields of negotiation and dispute resolution. CBI works with leaders, advocates, experts, and communities to promote effective negotiations, build consensus, and resolve conflicts. CBI improves the way that leaders use negotiations to make organizational decision, achieve agreements, and manage multi-party conflicts and planning efforts. CBI uses proven principles, processes and techniques that improve group decision-making on complex public and organizational issues. Many of these strategies have been developed through the Program on Negotiation and MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program at Harvard Law School, where a number of CBI’s staff and Board members are affiliated.
Sossi Aroyan, Office Manager and Executive Assistant
238 Main Street, Suite 400
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-492-1414
Email: cbi@cbuilding.org ;
Global Lawyers and Physicians (for human rights)
Global Lawyers and Physicians mission is to work at the local, national, and international levels through collaboration and partnerships with individuals, NGOs, IGOs, and governments on issues such as the global implementation of the health-related provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, with a focus on health and human rights, patient rights, and human experimentation.
George Annas – BU School of Medicine and Public Health
Michael Grodin – BU School of Medicine and Public Health
http://www.glphr.org/
iAbolish
iAbolish is a project of the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), a grassroots organization founded in 1993 to combat slavery around the world. AASG has broken a virtual media blackout on slavery and helped free over 45,000 slaves. AASG Directors– including survivors of slavery–have testified to Congress three times and met twice with the Secretary of State. In September of 2000, Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented the Boston Freedom Award to AASG President Dr. Charles Jacobs.
Sarah Sahn, Communication and Intern Director
American Anti-Slavery Group
198 Tremont St. #421
Boston, MA, USA 02116
Phone: (617) 426-8161
http://www.iabolish.com/
Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination’s (MCAD) mission is to ensure equality of opportunity by enforcing the Commonwealth’s Anti-discrimination laws, chapters 151B & 272, through the resolution of complaints of discrimination in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodations, services, credit and education. The Commission works to fulfill its mission through educating the public on issues concerning discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, national ancestry, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, and criminal records. In addition to these protected classes the Commission is mandated to educate the public on housing issues concerning marital status, military/veteran status, persons with children and public assistance. The Commission also initiates research activities and legal suits which may advance the civil rights of people in the Commonwealth.
Elizabeth Forman
One Ashburton Place
6th Floor, Room 601
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 994-6000
http://www.mass.gov/mcad/
Massachusetts Council of Churches
Social witness — churches working together for the sake of the world — is an integral and essential part of the ecumenical commitments of Christian churches. Ecumenical public policy advocacy involves maintaining watch over a wide spectrum of issues through the lens of Christian traditions, values and social ethics. In a variety of ways throughout its history, the Massachusetts Council of Churches has worked to counter violence at home and abroad. The World Council of Church’s Decade to Overcome Violence presents another opportunity for congregations in this region to find fresh ways to address the perennial problems caused by violence.
Mrs. Louise Frehill, Executive Assistant
Massachusetts Council of Churches
14 Beacon Street Suite 416
Boston, Ma 02108-3760
Phone: 617-523-2771
E-mail: council@masscouncilofchurches.org
http://www.masscouncilofchurches.org/index.html
The Peace Abbey
The Peace Abbey is dedicated to creating innovative models for society that empower individuals on the paths of nonviolence, peacemaking, and cruelty-free living. The Abbey offers a variety of programs and resources that teach, inspire and encourage one to speak out and act on issues of peace and social justice. Faith in action is the cornerstone of their fellowship and activist pacifism is our creed.
Lewis Randa, Director
Two North Main Street
Sherborn, MA 01770
Phone: (508) 655-2143
Email: info@peaceabbey.org
Peace First
Peace First is an innovative violence prevention program that encourages elementary school students to be peacemakers. The Peace First approach engages whole school communities–families, teachers, volunteers–to teach lessons of cooperation, communication, and conflict resolution using games and community service projects.
Peace Games National & Boston Office
280 Summer Street, Mezzanine Level
Boston, MA 02210
Phone: 617-261-3833
E-mail: info@peacefirst.org ; talent@peacefirst.org
http://www.peacefirst.org/
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is an organization of health professionals, scientists, and concerned citizens that uses the knowledge and skills of the medical and forensic sciences to investigate and prevent violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.
Leonard Rubenstein, JD, Executive Director
Physicians for Human Rights
2 Arrow Street, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Phone: (617) 301-4200
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org
Public Conversations Project (PCP)
The Public Conversations Project (PCP) fosters a more inclusive, empathic and collaborative society by promoting constructive conversations and relationships among those who have differing values, world views, and positions about divisive public issues. Our central objective is to avoid repeating unproductive debates and to develop new modes of communicating that lead to mutual understanding, respect, and trust. This reduces the costly effects of conflict and creates new possibilities for change.
Cherry Muse, President
Public Conversations Project
46 Kondazian Street
Watertown, MA 02472-2832
Phone: 617-923-1216
Email: info@publicconversations.org ; cmuse@publicconversations.org
http://www.publicconversations.org
Refugee Immigration Ministry (RIM)
The Refugee Immigration Ministry serves the needs of asylum seekers and those detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service through social services, spiritual care, and advocacy.
The Rev. Dr. Ruth Bersin, D. Min., Executive Director
119 Exchange Street,
Malden, MA 02148
Phone: 781-322-1011
Email: Rimboston.rim@verizon.net ; Ruth.rim@verizon.net
ROCA, Inc.
Roca is a multicultural human development and community building organization based in Chelsea and serving the communities of Chelsea, Revere, East Boston and Lynn, Massachusetts. Roca is a vision and value-led organization and operates as an open, democratic institution which values the participation and contributions of all people.
Molly Baldwin, Executive Director
ROCA, Inc.
101 Park Street
Chelsea, MA 02150
Phone: (617) 889-5210
E-mail: info@rocainc.com ; baldwinm@rocainc.com
Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine
Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine is an organization that works to promote a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians based on mutual respect, justice and equality. The peace we envision is one in which Jews and Palestinians share the land of Israel/Palestine and its resources, acknowledging and respecting each other’s rights as equal citizens and neighbors, free from violence and able to develop their own futures with full respect for human and civil rights.
Contact Person
44 Cypress St.
Brookline, MA 02445
Phone: (617) 984-0532
Email: info@vopj.org
Website: http://www.vopj.org
MEDIATION SERVICES
Association for Conflict Resolution – New England Chapter (NE-ACR)
The mission of the New England Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution (NE-ACR) is to promote the professional development of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practitioners and increase the understanding and use of ADR throughout New England.
NE-ACR
1770 Massachusetts Avenue, PMB 595
Cambridge, MA 02140-2808
Phone: 617-53NEACR (536-3227)
Email: neacr@neacr.org
Community Dispute Settlement Center
Since 1979, Community Dispute Settlement Center has provided an affordable forum for mediating conflicts and teaching mediation skills. Whether you are seeking help to resolve a conflict, or interested in learning mediation skills, CDSC is here to help.
Gail Packer, Executive Director
60 Gore Street
Cambridge, MA 02141
Phone: 617-876-5376
Email: cdscinfo@communitydispute.org
http://www.communitydispute.org/
Consensus Building Institute
The Consensus Building Institute (CBI) is a not-for-profit organization created by leading practitioners and theory builders in the fields of negotiation and dispute resolution. CBI works with leaders, advocates, experts, and communities to promote effective negotiations, build consensus, and resolve conflicts. CBI improves the way that leaders use negotiations to make organizational decision, achieve agreements, and manage multi-party conflicts and planning efforts. CBI uses proven principles, processes and techniques that improve group decision-making on complex public and organizational issues. Many of these strategies have been developed through the Program on Negotiation and MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program at Harvard Law School, where a number of CBI’s staff and Board members are affiliated.
Sossi Aroyan, Office Manager and Executive Assistant
238 Main Street, Suite 400
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-492-1414
Email: cbi@cbuilding.org ;
Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation
The Massachusetts Council On Family Mediation is a private, nonprofit organization established in 1982 by family mediators interested in sharing knowledge and setting guidelines for mediation practice in Massachusetts. It is the oldest professional organization in Massachusetts devoted exclusively to family mediation.
DeLaurice H. Fraylick, Office Director
23 Parker Road
Needham Heights, MA 02494
Phone: (781) 449-4430 or 877-777-4430
Email: masscouncil@mcfm.org
http://www.mcfm.org/
Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution
Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution provides “high quality mediation, case evaluation, facilitation and training to the agencies, municipalities, courts and citizens of the Commonwealth.”
Susan M. Jeghelian, Executive Director
100 Morrissey Boulevard,
McCormack Building, Room 627
Boston, MA 02125
Phone: 617-287-4040 or (617) 287-4047
Email: susan.jeghelian@umb.edu
http://omega.www.umb.edu/~resolution/
Metropolitan Mediation Services
Metropolitan Mediation Services (MMS) is an innovative organization which has offered mediation services in the Greater Boston area since 1984. MMS provides mediation services to businesses, government agencies, schools, courts, social service agencies, and individuals from Greater Boston neighborhoods and families. We also provide conflict resolution training to business people, attorneys, judges, mental health professionals and educators, among many others. MMS mediators and trainers have a wealth of experience, training, and education in mediation and conflict resolution. MMS has a multi-disciplinary staff which includes attorneys, social workers, and educators from elementary through graduate level. Metropolitan Mediation Services offers a variety of dispute resolution programs and services
Joan Sokoloff, Director
43 Garrison Street
Brookline, MA 02146
Phone: 617-277-8107
Email: joan.sokoloff@metromediation.org
http://www.metromediation.org/
The Public Conversations Project
The Public Conversations Project (PCP) fosters a more inclusive, empathic and collaborative society by promoting constructive conversations and relationships among those who have differing values, world views, and positions about divisive public issues. Our central objective is to avoid repeating unproductive debates and to develop new modes of communicating that lead to mutual understanding, respect, and trust. This reduces the costly effects of conflict and creates new possibilities for change.
Cherry Muse, President
Public Conversations Project
46 Kondazian Street
Watertown, MA 02472-2832
Phone: 617-923-1216
Email: info@publicconversations.org ; cmuse@publicconversations.org
http://www.publicconversations.org
The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General
Provides a list of Community Based Mediation Programs in Massachusetts, such listed below:
Boston/Ashburton Office:
McCormack Building
One Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 727-2200
Conflict Intervention Team
The Conflict Intervention Team is a team of community mediators specially trained to intervene in large scale, volatile school-based conflicts, and is sponsored by Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly, the Massachusetts Department of Education, and the Massachusetts Association of Mediation Programs and Practitioners.
Face-to-Face Mediation Program
The Face-to-Face Mediation Program consists of a network of nine community mediation programs funded by Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly to mediate a variety of consumer and housing disputes.
Student Conflict Resolution Experts (SCORE) Peer Mediation Program
SCORE pioneered the development of school mediation programs using trained student mediators to resolve violent and potentially violent conflict among their peers. Typical mediations involve fights, threats, harassment and rumors among students who know one another. The OAG Mediation Services Department provides expert mediation training, consultation, technical support and troubleshooting to all SCORE programs, SCORE schools and CMPs. MSD also conducts program site visits and assessments, convenes regional meetings, collects and analyzes program data, and provides oversight and quality control for the administration of SCORE grants.
RESEARCH and ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
Boston College, Faith, Peace and Justice Studies
The Program explores how the promises of the major faith traditions relate to the work for peace and justice. Objectives: to enhance academic resources for students to explore how their faith contributes to peace and justice; to offer campus programs that discuss the role of faith in the work for peace; to support students who are inspired by a faith promoting peace.
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617-552-3880
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/undergrad/minor/faith/
Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue
The Ikeda Center is an institute for peace, learning, and dialogue located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Since 1993, the Center has engaged diverse scholars, activists, and social innovators in the search for the ideas and solutions that will assist in the peaceful evolution of humanity. Founded by Buddhist thinker and leader Daisaku Ikeda, the Center’s programs include public forums and scholarly seminars that are organized collaboratively and offer a range of perspectives on key issues in global ethics.
396 Harvard Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Phone: 617-491-1090
Email: info@ikedacenter.org
http://www.ikedacenter.org/
Boston Theological Institute (BTI): Religion and Conflict Transformation Certificate Program
The BTI offers a Graduate Certificate in Religion and Conflict Transformation which seeks to prepare School of Theology/Divinity and Seminary trained persons in all ministry settings to respond to the realities of destructive conflict with peacemaking skills. The Certificate is awarded by the BTI in recognition of courses taken in Religion and Conflict Transformation, and related areas, at the schools of the Institute.
The Boston Theological Institute
210 Herrick Road
Newton Centre, MA 02459
Phone: 617-527-4880
Email: btioffice@bostontheological.org
http://www.bostontheological.org
Boston University School of Law: Litigation and Dispute Resolution Concentration
The Boston University School of Law offers a concentration in litigation and dispute resolution, providing an opportunity for students to study the growing art of alternative dispute resolution.
Joan L. Horgan, Director of Admissions
BU Law
765 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: 617.353.3100
Email: bulawadm@bu.edu
http://www.bu.edu/law/prospective/jd/concentrations/litigation.html
Commonwealth Institute
The Commonwealth Institute is a non-profit, non-governmental public policy research organization located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of the Institute’s principle projects is on Defense Alternatives (PDA). PDA seeks to adapt military policy to the circumstances of the post-Cold War era. To that end it develops pragmatic, cost-effective defense policy options that support progress toward more cooperative means of attaining security. PDA offers critical analysis of US policy as well as that of other nations and devises detailed alternative policy options. Many PDA studies and reports are available online.
The Commonwealth Institute
PO Box 398105, Inman Square Post Office
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Phone: 617-547-4474
E-mail: comw(at)comw.org
http://www.comw.org
The Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS)
The Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies is a multidisciplinary educational endeavor of the Five College Consortium of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. It was established in 1982 in order to enhance undergraduate education in the field of peace and international security studies.
Michael Klare, Director
PAWSS
School of Social Science
Hampshire CollegeS
Amherst, MA 01002
Phone: (413) 559-5367
E-mail: pawss@hampshire.edu
http://pawss.hampshire.edu/index.html
Harvard Law School: Program on Negotiation
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is an applied research center committed to improving the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution. Put most simply, the Program on Negotiation is working to change the way people, organizations, and nations resolve their disputes-shifting the process from “win-lose” outcomes to “all-gain” solutions. The Program is an interuniversity consortium involving faculty, graduate students, and administrative staff from a range of disciplines and professional schools at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University and other Boston-area schools.” (From PON website.)
Susan Hackley, Managing Director
The Program on Negotiation
at Harvard Law School
513 Pound Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 495-1684
Email: pon@law.harvard.edu
http://www.pon.harvard.edu/
Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy (ISCIP)
Chartered in 1988, ISCIP focuses on conflict-prone societies in crisis, especially Russia and other post-Soviet republics, paying particular attention to destabilizing factors of a political, ethnic, and/or international nature.
Uri Ra’anan Director & BU University Professor
ISCIP @ Boston University
141 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-5815
http://www.bu.edu/iscip/
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Security Studies Program
The Security Studies Program at MIT is a graduate-level research and educational program based at the Center For International Studies at MIT. Courses offered through this program emphasize grand strategy, technology, arms control, and bureaucratic politics issues. There is a special emphasis on the integration of technical and political analyses in studies of international security problems.
Security Studies Program
Bldg. E38, 6th Floor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-258-7608
Email: mrieb@mit.edu (Magdalena Rieb, Assistant Director)
University of Massachusetts at Boston: Dispute Resolution Program
UMass Boston offers two graduate programs in the field of dispute resolution: the Master of Arts Program in Dispute Resolution and the Graduate Certificate Program in Dispute Resolution. The M.A. program offers a comprehensive 36-credit curriculum encompassing dispute resolution skills, practice, analysis, theory, and research. Once dispute resolution skills have been developed and honed, students can develop context-specific dispute resolution expertise. The graduate certificate program offers an 18-credit curriculum focusing on dispute resolution skills for professionals who manage conflict in their work.
UMass Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125-3393
Phone: 617 287-7421
Email: disres@umb.edu
http://www.disres.umb.edu/programs.php
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
Center for Restorative Justice (Suffolk University)
The Center for Restorative Justice at Suffolk University is a community-engaged academic center committed to the promotion of restorative justice practices, principles, and values in New England. CRJ offers public events, workshops and talks on the theory, practice and implementation of restorative principles and practices by practitioners, scholars and community members. We seek to encourage creative application of restorative justice principles and practices in a wide variety of settings and across the entire spectrum of the community.
Carolyn Boyce-Watson, Associate Professor
The Center for Restorative Justice at Suffolk University
Boston, Massachusetts
phone: 617-305-1991
email: crj@suffolk.edu
http://www.suffolk.edu/college/1496.html
Communities for Restorative Justice (Concord, MA)
Betsy Maloney, Executive Director
219 Walden Street
P.O. Box 65
Concord, MA 01742
Phone: 978-318-3447
http://www.concordnet.org/pages/ConcordMA_police/c4rj/
Concord Prison Outreach
The Mission of Concord Prison Outreach is to initiate, support and coordinate volunteer involvement in educational programming at the two prisons located in Concord: MCI-Concord and the Northeastern Correctional Center (NCC).
Lenore James, Director
Concord Prison Outreach
PO Box 383,
Concord, MA 01742
Phone: (978) 369-1430
Partakers, Inc. Criminal Justice, Prison Ministries
As a faith-based, non-profit organization, Partakers is committed to advancing restorative justice, rehabilitation, and the healing transformation of both prisoners and society. Partakers’ mission is to reduce prisoner recidivism through education and civic engagement.
Mea Allen, Training and Volunteer Coordinator
Partakers
230 Central Street
Auburndale, MA 02466
Phone: 617-795-2725
Email: information@partakers.org or meaallen@partakers.org
[1] Some of the information listed here was provided by The Religion and Peacemaking Database (http://rpd.crinfo.org/ ).