Mission
Neighborhood Dispute Settlement seeks to promote and provide conflict resolutions solutions
through training, education, and direct services.
Values
Neighborhood Dispute Settlement bases seeks to promote the following values in all of its activities:
- Dignity (Human/Personal/Individual): Recognizing that every individual has an innate right to
respect and ethical treatment.
- Integrity (Personal/Procedural): Acting from an internally consistent framework of principles.
- Accountability: Acknowledging and assuming responsibility for actions, decisions, and policies
within the scope of one’s role with the obligation to report, explain and be answerable for
resulting consequences.
- Community: Providing people with the skills they need to effect change so as to enable people
to be free enough to share and secure enough to get along.
- Justice: Acting so as to make a victim whole and reintegrate the offender into
society by bringing an offender and a victim together, so that the offender can better
understand the effect his/her offense had on the victim.
- Positive Peace: Acting to remove indirect and structural violence.
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