Evidence Based Approaches
Proven Strategies for Violence Prevention
Our Framework
VPA Jamaica is committed to using evidence-based methodologies across all its violence prevention work. We draw on international best practices and adapt them to the Jamaican context, ensuring our interventions are both proven and culturally relevant.
The Peace Management Initiative (PMI)
The Peace Management Initiative (PMI) was established in 2002 and uses alternative dispute resolution methodologies to address community-based violence. Using their Community Transformation Model, PMI:
- ✓Interrupts community violence to create safer communities
- ✓Brings about healing and reconciliation through community-building activities
- ✓Engages community governance structures to further community development
- ✓Increases community sufficiency through sustainable economic activity
PMI Methodology
- ✓Mediation and dispute resolution
- ✓Counselling and therapy for people affected by violence
- ✓Mainstreaming unattached youth
- ✓Community takes ownership and builds a culture of peace
Contact PMI: 22 Melmac Avenue, Kingston 5 | Tel: (876) 754-5622 | peace_management@yahoo.com
The Campbell Collaboration
The Campbell Collaboration is an international social science research network that produces high quality, open and policy-relevant evidence syntheses, plain language summaries and policy briefs. The VPA utilizes their approaches — primarily the systematic reviews of Crime and Justice — to incorporate better evidence for a better world.
INSPIRE Framework
INSPIRE is a multi-agency approach for a coordinated response to end violence against children. VPA identifies the operationalizing of these strategies as best practices, primarily used in workshops among at-risk youth and communities.