Community Accountability

From Incite! Women of Color and Trans People of Color Against Violence (2012):

Community accountability is a process in which a community – a group of friends, a family, a church, a workplace, an apartment complex, a neighborhood, etc – works together to do the following things:

• Commit to ongoing development of all members of the community, and the community itself, to transform the political conditions that reinforce oppression and violence
• Provide safety & support to community members who are violently targeted that respects their self-determination
• Create and affirm values & practices that resist abuse and oppression and encourage safety, support, and accountability
• Develop sustainable strategies to address community members’ abusive behavior, creating a process for them to account for their actions and transform their behavior

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