ABOUT

AFTER VIOLENCE PROJECT

Mission

We are a community-based archive that fosters deeper understanding of the impacts of state violence on individuals, families, and communities. Our mission is to build power with directly impacted communities and advocate for abolition and transformative justice in the aftermath of violence.

Vision

Our vision is a culture of care that addresses and prevents violence without compounding harm and trauma. A culture that centers the needs of victims, survivors, and their loved ones through community-based accountability and healing. Where family and community relationships that have been torn apart by the carceral state have been mended.

Values

We recognize that the state violence we see today is a continuation of white supremacist violence of the past. We believe that people’s lived experience with violence and the carceral state makes their perspectives and expertise essential to countering dominant narratives about criminality and accountability. We center their experiences in everything we do while learning and practicing what justice can look like without responses to violence that compound harm and trauma.