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Ways to make a Community Stronger, Wiser, More Resilient and Engaged - an outline for a course offering 26 approaches to making a better community.

Community The best way to deal with problems is to stop them before they start. All communities are safer when citizens act together and crime rates decline or remain low. Neighborhood safety is a shared responsibility, in which both citizens and police have important roles.

Co-Intelligence and the Holistic Politics of Community Self-Organization describes, from a permaculture perspective, some design principles for self-organizing communities. Includes notes on leadership, co-intelligence, a couple of dozen tools for self-organization and dialogue, the spectrum of politics and the powerful formula REPRESENTATIVE DIVERSITY + CONSENSUS PROCESS = POLITICAL WISDOM. See also:

A toolbox of co-intelligent processes for community work

Principles of Public Participation - Lists of guidelines from The International Association for Public Participation, The Community Development Society and the Co-Intelligence Institute.

Creating Communities of Opportunity - the online manuscript of an excellent book, THE BASKETMAKER:HELPING PEOPLE CREATE COMMUNITIES OF OPPORTUNITY: A guide for Services & Family Self-Sufficiency Coordinators, and leaders working to strengthen their communities

Self-organizing community networks - a variety of novel neighborhood organizing methods that grew out of Y2K community preparation work.

Why Community-Based Responses Make More Sense than Survivalism by Tom Atlee. Something to think about. I disagree with nearly every one of the opening quotes (for various reasons), but the article provides a banquet of food for thought.

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