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  • Hunting The Witch-Hunters: An Initiative Is Seeking Truth, Justice For Those Wrongfully Accused

    July 27, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Benue

    The Advocacy for Alleged Witches organization is fighting against the violent practice of witch-hunting in Benue, Nigeria. It offers medical treatment, legal advocacy, and financial assistance for those who are falsely accused while pushing for policy to combat the issue.

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  • Keeping People Safe

    July 25, 2024 |

    Tradeoffs |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Durham’s alternative crisis response team of social workers, HEART, responds to 911 calls to mitigate conflict on their own or with the police. The program is designed to keep everyone involved safe while preventing a situation from escalating to violence.

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  • Convincing the Cops

    July 18, 2024 |

    Tradeoffs |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Durham, North Carolina, instated an alternative crisis response program that dispatches social workers to respond to 911 calls about people in mental health crises. The team’s successes earned the support of an initially skeptical police department.

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  • Model Prisons: California's Push for Reform

    July 13, 2024 |

    CBS News |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, California

    California is taking a new approach to reducing recidivism, known as The California Model, by providing people who are incarcerated with rehabilitative and educational programming.

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  • This Birmingham nonprofit gives youth safe spaces to open up: 'Listen'

    July 11, 2024 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    Kings Kids Outreach provides youth with mentorship, tutoring, school supplies, counseling and other summer programs to help improve their academic performance, reduce absenteeism and protect them from growing rates of violence in the city. The group provides services to more than 2,000 children and, from the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, reduced chronic absenteeism from 26.2% to 12.7%

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  • Haitian families displaced by gang violence sustain effects with more than just solidarity 

    June 17, 2024 |

    Haitian Times |

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    Response Location: Haiti, Port-au-Prince

    More than 300 families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, came together in a closed public school to support each other with practical assistance. From sharing daily tasks to security and safety to splitting resources and food, they built a self-governing system through mutual aid and healthy social relationships.

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  • Peace Through Resolution: Iseyin's Journey To Overcoming Religious Strife

    June 07, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Iseyin, Oyo

    Following years of religious strife and violence, several groups gathered to create a peace treaty, protecting each group’s right to safe, religious celebration. Since the creation of the peace agreement in 2022, both the Oró and Egungun religious festivals have taken place without any incidents of violence.

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  • What do violence interrupters in Oakland do? We spoke with one to find out

    June 06, 2024 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Volunteer violence interrupters with Youth Alive — a nonprofit based in Oakland, California — are breaking cycles of violence by providing immediate support to victims and their families after a crime. They receive tips from the community, direct people to resources, mediate conflicts, and even help survivors relocate.

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  • Researchers race to keep up with improving AI voice clones — and prevent scams

    June 04, 2024 |

    St. Louis Public Radio |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Researchers are developing a program called DeFake that adds subtle noise distortion to people’s voice recordings to prevent artificial intelligence from learning the voice and creating deep fakes with it.

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  • Against all odds: Educating Nigeria's Fulani children amidst adversity

    June 03, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jabi, Adamawa

    Founded to address the root causes of cattle rustling in Nigeria, such as lack of access to education, as well as raise awareness of Fulani culture, the Fulani Care and Support Foundation set up makeshift classrooms to provide formal education for children aged 7 to 12. By relying on volunteer teachers, one of the foundation’s schools offers lessons for about 50 students three times a week.

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