Jailbreak!
This country has the highest per capita prison population
What is El Salvador?
This Norwegian sociologist coined the distinction between “negative peace” (absence of violence) and “positive peace” (presence of justice and equitable social systems), as reflected in AFSC’s strategic objectives
Who is Johan Galtung?
"Nothing about us without us”, bridging the gap between rhetoric and real decision-making on refugee issues
Who is Refugee Voice?
AFSC helped to secure the release of more than 4000 individuals during this shameful US period
What is the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW2?
The term comes from two Greek words meaning managing a household
What is economics?
In 1977, the AFSC Board issued a minute calling for these three changes to the carceral system
What are a moratorium on prison construction, abolition of incarceration and revision of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
Signed in 1998, this landmark agreement helped end decades of conflict in Northern Ireland and is widely studied as a model of negotiated peace.
What is the Good Friday Agreement?
The stressors are cumulative, the exposure repeated, we soldier on across migratory trajectories
What is migrant centered Trauma Healing?
In the 1980s, AFSC did this to support people impacted by the civil wars in Central America
What is offer sanctuary?
This economic reality in the US has been identified by researchers as a social toxin affecting life expectancy, health, addiction, crime, social trust and more
What is extreme inequality?
This country often trains U.S. police and other law enforcement officers
What is Israel?
In 2016, then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon designated this musical project as a UN Global Advocate for Cultural Understanding, praising the organization's push for peace and unity, particularly between Israelis and Palestinians
What is the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra?
This country has recently signed many secret diplomatic concession deals to outsource Immigration Accountability
What is the United States of America?
This US president is often called "the deporter in chief"
Who is Barack Obama?
This economic system is characterized by private ownership of the means of production, wage labor, profit maximization, commodity production, and market relations
What is capitalism?
This AFSC program publishes a survivors manual by and for incarcerated people living in solitary confinement
What is Prison Watch?
Some peacebuilders say this new “colleague” can help draft conflict analysis memos in seconds—but still cannot replace the trust-building, empathy, and relationship work at the heart of mediation and conflict transformation
What is AI (artificial intelligence)
This mountainous route is often called roadless, lawless and dangerous
What is the Darien Gap?
The Trump administration has announced that it is planning to increase immigration detention by an additional 92,600 people (on top of the current 70,000) in these types of facilities that ICE is purchasing around the country
What are warehouses?
This approach to economics emphasizes cooperation, democracy, and prioritizing people and planet over profit
What is the solidarity economy?