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Start More Research into the Restorative and Generative Emotional and Physical Rhythms that Prevent Violence

One adaptive research step is towards knowledge into how the rhythms of human systems and ecosystems interact to prevent violence and heal emotional and physical traumas after extreme events in regional environments. This understanding applied to the design of public spaces could prevent the criminal activities of motivated offenders and provide a sense of physical and emotional safety to women, children and older people. Disrupting the cycle of crime and the negative emotions of trauma with a world could benefit the creation of wise artificial intelligence (AI) which. I say this because “To be peaceful and satisfied with peace is most wise” while in contrast “To hurt humanity often involves a desire to satisfy hate through hurt. If we desire to hurt through our hate then we may become malicious enough to not deserve our own humanity.”. Anger and sadism which inflicts violent and harassment crime hurts other people, it hurt communities but perhaps AI designed around the ethics of healing rhythms of emotional and physical hurt and rather than towards the sale of products based on clicks could teach our humanity to be more peaceful and satisfied with peace.

Learn to Listen of Ourselves and Share Our Personal Experiences of Emotional and Physical Healing.

My journey into safer public space research began when a motivated offender shot me, when “by the time I turned my head the gun was pointed to my temple. The perpetrator fired the gun and the sound of a firework reverberated in my ears.”. Afterwards, I travelled a year through Iran and Georgia and returned to New Zealand to regenerate my family’s farm. However, an abuse dynamic forced me to seek better opportunities so I returned to Australia and enrolled at the regional university of Southern Cross University (SCU) in Lismore. It was there I became a member of the SCU community garden from 2020-2023. It taught me a lot about how safe public spaces help us through experiencing multiple extreme life events to find a kinder humanity. In Lismore, I began working more intently on the UN Sustainable Development Goal Target 11.7 to “By 2030 provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities”. I left the garden with friendships and had planted many fruit trees for our future members. It was a joy to plant them in the pleasant air with the knowledge that future students would share in delicious, locally produced, fresh and nutritious fruits and vegetables. 

Design Community Gardens and Orchards within Residential Diversionary Programs

When the routine activities of communities form networks of capable guardians in public space they can disrupt motivated offenders from re-traumatising suitable targets through acts of violence and harassment (Cohen & Felson, 1979). Community gardens are networks of citizens experimenting with food production in public space and also friendship networks who can support each other to heal from physical and emotional traumas. Considering this community gardens could be one solution to support reducing dependence on criminal justice systems that incarcerate people into cycles of offence-release-reoffence after experiencing an extreme event, particularly since extreme events are on the upward trajectory under climate change scenarios (IPCC, 2023). This is not argue against imprisonment since many crimes demand imprisonment for the safety of the community. Crimes can be so severe in their “malicious and callous intent” and the damage so great to the emotional and physical health of others that the maximum sentence of life imprisonment is justified (Davis, 2018). On the other hand, young offenders who can be granted bail require safe residential environments with mentorship support argues New England Centre for Rural Criminology criminologist and General Council Manager of Walgett Shire, NSW (Mageros, 2025). Indeed, mentorship in a safe residential space with a the health targeted intervention of a community garden where those granted bail in a residential diversionary program have the opportunity to grow food for themselves and even provide some back to the community could improve emotional and physical health measures greater than unconditional income payments (Miller et al., 2024).

Establish the Functional Food Ecosystem Experimental and Monitoring Framework for Community Gardens and Orchards in Public Spaces 

Community gardens are also citizen science initiatives and are one opportunity to flourish food producing communities through experimental learning to try out new farming practices that focus on functional ecosystem networks that reduce pesticide and fertilizer inputs, adapt better to new climate change extremes and promote regenerative cycles of soil and water health. From the small opportunities of people working together in community gardens to experiment with new using practices in open science, with access to affordable monitoring technologies and testing, joint metropolitan-regional university partnerships we could start the food system transformation. Data from these experiments assessed for quality and uploaded onto databases like Havard dataverse could create a network of ecological farming practices. This data safeguarded with data security to ensure data sovereignty could deliver an essential public good in an era of climate change. Empowered evidence-based regenerative agricultural startups that are agile to adapt the food production system transformation. 

We have an opportunity give back and flourish friendship, food growing and a more emotional and physically pleasant futures with community gardens :).