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Scenario

When community coalitions split on working within vs outside the system

Our community coalition formed to address police accountability in our city but half of us think we need to work within the system and build relationships with reform-minded officers while the other half believes that's fundamentally impossible and we're just legitimizing harm. We're supposed to be planning our next action and we can't even agree on what accountability means.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group united by shared goals is discovering that their fundamental theories of change are incompatible in ways that threaten their ability to act together.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Criminal justice systems globally?”

Peri

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