Communities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 1
July 2, 2015
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In this series of four blogs I’d like to think about active citizenship and democracy. In this regard, I will not be writing about: How...
Read MoreLooking Back to Look Forward: the intellectual heritage of Asset-Based Community Development
What a week, we've just finished the ABCD Festival where we celebrated with people from 17 countries. We revelled in the greatness of small,...
Read MoreAsset-Based Community Development Festival: It’s time to celebrate
Dear Friends, As many of you will be aware, in 1995 John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann convened an extended circle of friends to help them...
Read MoreRemembering Judith Snow, a phenomenal woman
[caption id="attachment_1199" align="alignright" width="338"] Image taken from http://on.fb.me/1EZwH1c[/caption] On Sunday night last, May 31, 2015 at 10:45 Judith Snow passed away, she was a friend,...
Read MoreThinking about Assets on Africa Day
ABCD as an alternative to the dominant Needs-Based Approach in Africa This week, on Monday, May 25 to varying degrees the world celebrated Africa Day....
Read MoreToo small to fail: ABCD & Schumacher
[caption id="attachment_1116" align="alignleft" width="204"] E.F. Schumacher. Image taken from http://bit.ly/1FvuqQp[/caption] Imagine living in a world where the default position was ‘that’s too small to fail!’...
Read MoreAsset-Based Community Development: Focusing on what matters
Over the last 30 years in particular, neoliberalism and globalisation have done huge harm to local indigenous living and the major eco-systems of the...
Read MoreRebooting Accountability: From top-down to AA.
In last week’s blog I wrote about the limits of the corporate model that attempts to declare war in an effort to restore peace....
Read MoreWar, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’
Globalisation’s promise to avert World War III has triggered a wide range of other wars. As well as wars between Sovereign states, since Bretton...
Read MoreA Gift is not a gift until it’s given
A community can never own that which was created for them, in the same way that they own that which they create for themselves....
Read MoreWhat does Abundance mean, anyway? House of Cards
Last week I received a great email from someone whom I find to be a terrifically deep thinker. They ask the most brilliant questions,...
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