Community Response Case Study: Mecklenburg, North Carolina (December 2022)

The Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) team conducted interviews in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, to better understand the local realities of political violence in the United States and highlight community responses. To understand what this looks like in practice, BDI structured our text around drivers of conflict and community mitigation strategies taking place in Mecklenburg. While these are not the only points of tension or unity in Mecklenburg, this case study offers a snapshot of community response and an opportunity to highlight the complexities of a specific local context.