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Issue 16 People, Place and Power: the soul of community development Dundee Edition Contents WCDC2019 Editorial. Dr Victoria Jupp Kina & Mere Greta 4 ‘People, Place and Power: the soul of community development’ Reflecting on a disruptive conference. Clare MacGillivray 6 On Belonging to an International Community: the experience of our conference volunteers. Alyssa Faulkner & Tanita Louise Addario 8 About IACD Children’s Parliament: giving ideas a voice. Katie Reid 10 Human Rights and Development: two sides of the same coin? Virgínia Brás Gomes 14 Page 10 IACD is the only global network for professional community Reflections on WCDC2019 from COVID-19 lockdown! Margaret Ledwith 16 development practitioners. We support development agencies The World is Ill-Divided: Reflections on public history in Dundee. Dr Erin Farley 18 and practitioners to build the capacity of communities to A Victory for Ubuntu: bringing community development practice to the realise greater social and economic equality, environmental battle for UK visas. Daniel Muia 20 protection and political democracy. A Tale of Two Cities: Community Development and Systemic Inequality. Anthony Cook 21 What do we do? Awakening to Love and Soul in Community Development. IACD links people to each other. We facilitate learning and practice exchange, both virtually Rosalind Harris & Ron Hustedde 24 and face-to-face. We work with partners to deliver regional, national and international events, study visits and conferences. We document the work that our members are doing Storytelling around the wood fire stove of a mobile ‘tiny house’: around the world by collecting case studies, tools and materials on community experiencing the civic sanctuary of the Welcome Hut. Christian H Hanser 26 development, and sharing these through our website, publications and ebulletins. We carry Facilitation for Empowerment and Social Transformation (FEST): A case of out research projects, drawing on international experience. Page 18 process-led approach to community development in Nepal. Ammar Bahadur Air 29 IACD aims to give its members a voice at the global level, advocating for community Community Development Workshop: Native Lands, Native People, development principles and practice in international forums and consultations. IACD Native Rights. Holly Scheib 32 has consultative status with the UN and its agencies. The Factors Influencing Power and Politics for Women in Liberia: Contributing articles My Personal and Work Experience. Dorothy Kwennah Toomann 34 Our international Practice Insights publications are issued three times a year, each one LGBTQ+ Rights and Community Development: A Global Roundtable. focusing on a particular theme of relevance to community development. If you would like Paul Lachapelle and Deborah Albin 37 further information or to contribute to future editions, please contact membership@ Delight Sunday-Anicho 38 iacdglobal.org. Alternatively, IACD members are welcome at any time to contribute news Unconferenced: The Unchampioned Views. items, research, case studies or other materials to our members’ Facebook site and to the Seven minutes to share, an eternity to learn: Building and deepening IACD website. common grounds. Mário Montez 39 Join us Reflections on World Community Development Conference Page 24 Dundee 2019. Cissy Rock 41 For full details and to join, go to www.iacdglobal.org/join-us. Teaching and Learning in Community Development: The Role of Praxis. Benefits of membership include: Catherine Forde 42 • Daily Facebook News posts about community and international development; People, Place and Power: the soul of community development: • Access to the Global Community Development Exchange resource bank on the IACD Conference insights. 44 website; My experience as the spontaneous minstrel for Dundee WCDC 2019. • Opportunities to participate in Practice Exchange study visits; Dr Claire Garabedian 48 • Discounted rates at IACD conferences; A Year On: Thoughts and Reflections from Dundee’s Practitioners • Discounted subscriptions to the Community Development Journal; Stuart Fairweather 50 • Opportunities to share your work and experiences with a global audience, through our Realising the Dream: identifying unexamined privilege as a path to equality in website, Facebook sites and other publications; the field of community development Meredith Greta, Victoria Jupp Kina & Holly Scheib 52 • Members also have the opportunity to nominate to serve on the IACD Board of Directors. Community Supported Enterprises as a Local Development Option. Page 44 Our next Annual General Meeting will take place in June 2021 in Kenya. Norman Walzer 56 The Cultural Journey of a City. Stewart Murdoch 58 Practice Exchange Photo Essay. Elaine Attard 60 Visualising People and Place: embedding design-thinking in Dundee’s development. Annie Marrs 62 DigiShakti: Digital Empowerment of Urban and Rural Women in Maharashtra, India. Sonia Garcha 65 Earth as Community: putting nature, communities and community development www.iacdglobal.org at the heart of tackling climate change, biodiversity loss and social justice. The views expressed in this publication are primarily those of the respective authors and not necessarily those of IACD. Helena Kettleborough 68 Page 62 2 Practice Insights | Issue 15 Read IACD’s Daily News on community development from around the world our collective strength. Through strength, We wanted a conference that we build resistance. In this issue, Daniel Cllr John shifted the normal and Muia reflects on his experience of having Alexander WCDC2019 Editorial his visa to attend the conference refused disrupted traditional dynamics. Editor: Dr Victoria Jupp Kina; Assistant Editor: Mere Greta – and the deeply political fight to have his Leader of Dundee and five other visa refusals overturned. City Council Thanks to Clare’s leadership, we were successful in overturning three. programming. Claire Garabedian Collectively, we resisted and transformed highlights the power of music in creating the sense of other to a sense of together. moments of spontaneous connection, As organisers of an international A thank you and feedback on the performance from conference, our moral obligation to Vox Liminis during the closing plenary belonging is the preparedness to engage from the Leader reinforced the power of music to directly in political decisions that could be reimagine and instigate change. We viewed as beyond our control. After all it of Dundee City would urge future conferences to place is, as Virgínia Brás-Gomez highlights in this creativity centrally in programming. issue, citizen power that drives change. Council As introverts, we are also proud of Dundee was honoured to creating an event that provided spaces Collectively, we resisted and for the quieter people among us. As transformed the sense of other host the World Community Christian Hanser so powerfully described to a sense of together. Our Development Conference in his article in this issue, we need to moral obligation to belonging is ensure that we listen to the silences of (WCDC) in 2019. It was a Dr Victoria Jupp Kina Meredith Greta disengagement and enable people to the preparedness to engage vibrant celebration of our ‘retreat towards society’. Similarly, Rosalind directly in political decisions. communities and We are delighted to bring you this special issue of Practice Insights. The creation of Harris and Ron Hustedde beautifully describe the need to embrace those of us the positive legacy of this issue has provided us with the delightful opportunity to relive WCDC2019 not only with alternative epistemologies and take community development in our memories (no doubt fogged by the task of organising over 500 delegates!), but care of the shared pain that can occupy the ‘pulsing-storied silence’ we carry with We hope that you enjoy reading this issue in the city. through the lenses of our delegates. us. The changes from events like this do as much as we enjoyed creating it. As we not emerge only from the loudest voices; look towards a global future in which the This issue is a celebration of We are proud of what we achieved, but they happen through the moments of only certainty is that the current system collaboration and creativity. When the we recognise that there is still more to It was a beautiful and rare connection in spaces like the Welcome must fundamentally change, we end with planning committee began thinking do. We did not create a truly inclusive Hut. It is through actively seeking to create the words of our in-house spoken word about the conference in early 2018, we example of collaborative event. As a majority female committee, spaces that embrace the fullness of our poetry performer, Dr Erin Farley: ‘The were a group of strangers navigating leadership. we worked hard to overcome gender individual experiences as humans that we things they lived are not finished.’ Our group dynamics and looking to one inequalities however our committee was believe facilitated the sense of belonging fight continues, and by nurturing our another to try to locate ourselves in entirely white and the final programme that emerged during our three (or eight, if collective souls we will overcome. a group with no clear roles. From the reflected this. As eloquently described you went on the Practice Exchanges!) outset, Clare’s excitement was by Anthony Cook in this issue, systemic Meredith Greta was WCDC2019 days together. As Tanita Addaro notes, palpable. Her pride of her city and We wanted dialogue rather than inequality is rooted