MISSION, VISION & VALUES

MISSION:

To engage individuals and communities in innovative strategies that promote equality, repair harm, and prevent violence against women and children.

What We Stand For: 

Men As Peacemakers (MAP) works with individuals, communities, and the systems within each community to end domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, sex trafficking, and stalking. We recognize that these forms of violence constitute a community problem, impacting not just individuals, but their families and the broader community, as well. Addressing these harms, therefore, requires a multi-prong, multi-generational, and stakeholder-driven approach.

Through relationships with those in the community most impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, sex trafficking, and stalking, collaboration with community and systems partners, and innovative methods that integrate best practices with community insight, MAP programs work towards:

  • Preventing domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, sex trafficking, and stalking by addressing individual-level risk factors and community-level conditions;

  • Providing meaningful pathways to accountability after these harms have occurred;

  • Equipping communities with knowledge, skills, and strategies that promote resiliency, healing, and restoration.

CORE VALUES:

MAP believes that men have the ability and responsibility to make peace, and that they are needed more than ever to work alongside survivors and others impacted by violence to end violence against women and children and create safe, thriving communities.

MAP strives to uphold the following core values:

  • Inherent Dignity - We believe all people have equal human value, dignity, and potential.  In thriving communities, everyone has roles in alignment with their gifts and strengths.

  • Wholeness - In healthy communities, we respect and care for the unique needs and perspectives of each member; space is created for people to bring their whole selves.

  • Collective Care - We take care of each other. No one exists in isolation, but working together, we can generate our own solutions to community problems.    

  • Responsibility to Others - When we recognize that we are all connected, we accept a deep responsibility for the ways our choices impact everyone around us – for good or for harm.