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Today the United States is facing the challenge of confronting deep-rooted divisions and mistrust between civilians and law enforcement officers, resulting in repeated episodes of violence directed towards both groups. The continued presence of this violence, as we see it on our televisions and front pages every day, has spurred a national debate over effective strategies to address this divide and foster a culture of trust between civilians and law enforcement in cities and towns across the country. The structural racism and discrimination that minority communities face and have faced creates a complex social problem. This complex problem requires innovative solutions that involve the participation of all those who make up our society.
> This is an American issue that we should all care about. All fair-minded people should be concerned. **President Barack Obama** July 7, 2016, NATO Summit, Warsaw, Poland
The Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR) is privileged to announce that, as the first event in a new initiative featuring work with police forces across the U.S., we will be organizing a Seminar for Law Enforcement on the Protection of Civil and Human Rights. In cooperation with governmental and non-governmental partners, the Auschwitz Institute is developing durable approaches to prevent future atrocities, in light of the current atmosphere of distrust between police and the communities they serve and protect. For a complete description of this initiative, please visit our U.S. Programs page. The Seminar will pilot AIPR’s work with the law enforcement community here in the U.S. We will invite police officers from cities across the country to engage in a two-day training workshop designed to provide a deeper understanding of how the processes that have led to the proliferation of this conflict have occurred. Equipped with this understanding, attending law enforcement officials will be sensitized to the underlying causes of the problem and better equipped to develop solutions in cooperation with their communities. AIPR is a non-profit organization dedicated to building a world that prevents mass atrocities. We do this through the provision of training and educational programs for government officials around the globe, including law enforcement and security personnel. These programs work to inform participants of the tools and strategies at their disposal for combatting discriminatory processes that increase the risk for widespread violence and, eventually, mass atrocities. As a civil society organization based in the United States, AIPR is in a unique position to utilize its expertise on the prevention of violence and large-scale identity-based atrocities to provide a training program that emphasizes the building of trust between police and their communities.
However, **we cannot do this alone.**
In order to make the largest impact, we are asking you to lend [vital support to this program](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=C3R7GHGGPP9PS). The pilot phase of this new initiative is scheduled to take place in the spring of 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. AIPR has a history of running countless successful training programs across the globe. We are asking for your help to make sure that we can expand this training across all cities in the country. We are asking for your support to create the best training resources and opportunities in prevention for our police. We are asking for your support for a long-term solution to end the pattern of violence that we witness today. For more information on AIPR’s training program for the law enforcement community in the U.S., please contact our offices by phone at 212-575-2605 or by email at [info@auschwitzinstitute.org](mailto:info@auschwitzinstitute.org).
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