{"id":40912,"date":"2019-01-10T18:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=40912"},"modified":"2019-01-11T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:51:00","slug":"new-virginia-license-plate-celebrates-community-peacebuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/new-virginia-license-plate-celebrates-community-peacebuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"New Virginia license plate celebrates community peacebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40931\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/01\/new-virginia-license-plate-celebrates-community-peacebuilding\/20150401-christina-poulson-05-1000px\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40931 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/01\/20150401-Christina-Poulson-05-1000px-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/01\/20150401-Christina-Poulson-05-1000px-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/01\/20150401-Christina-Poulson-05-1000px.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Poulson MA &#8217;98, executive director of Resolution Virginia, in a 2015 portrait (Photo by Kara Lofton).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks in part to the leadership of an Eastern Mennonite University Center for Justice and Peacebuilding alumna, a new license plate option in Virginia is spreading a message of \u2013 and raising funds for \u2013 community peacebuilding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmv.virginia.gov\/vehicles\/#splates\/info.asp?idnm=PCE\">Community Peacebuilding plate<\/a>, which became available a year after the tragic events of August 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, \u201ccan start conversations that we need to have,\u201d said <\/span><b>Christine Poulson MA \u201898<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the executive director of Resolution Virginia, a consortium of nine not-for-profit community dispute resolution centers. \u201cHaving this plate on one\u2019s vehicle sends a message that we value each other and support peaceful communities where everyone can thrive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second such project by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaccr.org\/\">Resolution Virginia,<\/a> the plate displays a globe held up by human arms with different skin tones. Spanning the bottom of the plate are the phrase \u201cCommunity Peacebuilding\u201d and an urban-to-rural skyline. It was designed by graphic artist Dean Paris of Paris Designs in Takoma Park, Maryland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After 1,000 are sold, Resolution Virginia will receive $15 for each $25 plate that is purchased. To keep the plate in production, at least 250 need to be on the road across the state. Currently approximately 100 are in use. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/humane-trafficking-a-new-virginia-license-plate-seeks-to-build-consensus\/2018\/08\/21\/5e699b94-a555-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html?utm_term=.22318f19bfed\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> column<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by John Kelly about the new Community Peacebuilding license plate.<\/aside><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organization\u2019s first plate \u2013 a campaign for which then-volunteer Poulson played a key role \u2013 showed a dove and has been in production for 10 years. Designed by Liz Frankl of the Frankl Creative Group, it has earned nearly $400,000 for the organization, Poulson said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community Peacebuilding<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peace<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dove plates are available online and through Department of Motor Vehicles offices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany people are tired of animosity,\u201d Poulson said. \u201cThese license plates suggest that the vehicles\u2019 owners value coming together\u201d \u2013 and further Poulson\u2019s goal of making community-based dispute resolution \u201cmore a part of our culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Staunton-based Resolution Virginia, formerly known as the Virginia Association for Community Conflict Resolution, is a member of the National Association for Community Mediation and associated with the Virginia Mediation Network and the Supreme Court of Virginia\u2019s Department of Dispute Resolution Services.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks in part to the leadership of an Eastern Mennonite University Center for Justice and Peacebuilding alumna, a new license plate option in Virginia is spreading a message of \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/new-virginia-license-plate-celebrates-community-peacebuilding\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about New Virginia license plate celebrates community peacebuilding<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,12503,17562,14145],"tags":[],"feature":[17427,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-40912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-cjp","category-digest","category-peacebuilding-and-development","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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