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Interview with Concord Communities Alliance
At the beginning of May, the Peace Center had the opportunity to have a conversation with two organizers with local grassroots group, Concord Communities Alliance (CCA). CCA works with the community to advocate for better affordability, livability, sustainability, and resident […]
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Submissions for the 2020 Art & Writing Challenge are now CLOSED / Sponsor one of our Awards!
Hello wonderful community! This past week, we have closed submissions to our 2020 Dennis Thomas Art & Writing Challenge + Youth Activist Grant Awards. Despite the hectic nature of the past two months, we have received a number of thoughtful, […]
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The May / June 2020 Issue of our Gazette is LIVE!
The latest issue of our Peace Gazette is now available! It includes our regular column by longtime board member Bob Maxwell, as well as a few new features. As a part of the launch of our new community partners section […]
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2020 Election Coverage
The Peace Center Research Group has been hard at work for the past year compiling foreign policy statements made by prospective Democratic candidates in our Foreign Policy Fact Sheets. While we began with coverage of over 10 Democratic candidates, we […]
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COVID-19 RESOURCE GUIDE
Hello Wonderful Community! We hope everything is going as well as it can for you and your loved ones. Though it is a time of crisis, we have been greatly inspired and touched by the networks of support that have […]
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Statement on Modified Art and Writing Challenge/Youth Activist Grant 2020!
From personal experience as well as speaking with some of our student organizers, the Peace Center has found that art and writing is a therapeutic, meditative, and transformative practice. It allows us to contextualize and process our feelings and thoughts […]
About the Center
We exist to offer Contra Costa County residents a choice – a choice in how to view the world through peaceful eyes, to view Contra Costa County as part of the global family. Showing support for community programs allows the Center to work towards engendering new ways of thinking in every citizen. That choice includes how we spend our time and money, and the picture of what peace looks like gets clearer as we take actions that reflect our resolve to be the change we want to see.