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REBOOTING DEMOCRACY: ABCD's Role in Community Mobilisation

Explore the power of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in revitalizing democracy through citizen engagement, representative government, and collective problem-solving. Learn from stories and experiences in the USA.

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REBOOTING DEMOCRACY: ABCD's Role in Community Mobilisation

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  1. REBOOTING DEMOCRACYTHE ROLE OF ABCD IN COMMUNITY MOBILISATION: STORIES AND LEARNINGS FROM THE USA RON DWYER-VOSS, PACIFIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS, California, USA

  2. Voting • Representative Government • Government engagement of the citizenry (input, advisory, theater, sales pitch) • “Barnraising” – citizens banding together to solve a problem or create something without government • Way of being in community – co-production, shared responsibility, accountability and inclusivity Citizen Based Democracy

  3. Power Exerted

  4. Power Within

  5. Citizen or “citizen”

  6. Care and Compassion

  7. Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice….In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about, it’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all.

  8. Government and NGOs can facilitate the development and expression of care and compassion in a neighborhood or community. Care and compassion will drive lived democracy. Government cannot love peoplePeople can love people

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