Center for Global Affairs Visiting Assistant Professor Brad Heckman spoke to faculty and students about his cutting-edge work with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) that included the training of more than 1000 police officers in mediation techniques over a period of three years. Heckman emphasized the importance of introducing mediation skills to officers working the beat so that they could “build relationships more effectively with the communities where they work.” Heckman noted that there have been structural changes within the NYPD as a result of the training: “Officers are being incentivized not for how many arrests they are making, but for how much peace they are building.”