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Heenan, Deirdre – Community Development Journal, 1997
Although much of the community development work undertaken by women in Northern Ireland could be described as community relations, women's reluctance to use that label has led to neglect of their significant contributions. A more inclusive definition of community relations is needed. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Relations, Females, Foreign Countries
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Dale, Jennifer; Derricourt, Nick – Community Development Journal, 1990
Three years' observation of a community development project on a council housing estate in England, focusing on housing issues, produced a qualitative assessment of the process of the project at the management and community level. (JOW)
Descriptors: Community Development, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Housing
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Gilchrist, Alison – Community Development Journal, 1998
The Bristol (England) Festival against Racism illustrates the value of personal contacts and informal networking in developing community coalitions. The project resulted in a 12-step model for conflict resolution. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Conflict Resolution, Foreign Countries, Networks
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O'Gorman, Frances; Speyer, Anne Marie; Tedrus, Maria Aparecida L. – Community Development Journal, 1998
O'Gorman provides "Five Points for Reflection" on nongovernmental and community organizations in Brazil. Speyer and Tedrus discuss "Community Libraries: An Experience in Community Development in the Periphery of Sao Paulo." (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Organizations, Foreign Countries, Libraries
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Kenny, Susan – Community Development Journal, 1996
Since the 1980s, community development in Australia has become professionalized and operates in a milieu of deregulation and privatization. Development workers struggle with questions of integrity and compromise and the contradictory pulls of modernism and postmodernism. (SK)
Descriptors: Activism, Community Development, Conflict, Foreign Countries
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Gilchrist, Alison – Community Development Journal, 2003
The social inclusion emphasis of recent British policy has renewed community development efforts for capacity building and civic participation. Funding remains precarious and the independence of the community development sector be continuously asserted. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Taylor, Viviene – Community Development Journal, 1994
Focuses on the community disintegration caused by violence and conflict in South Africa. Examines the need for social reconstruction and development and the challenges facing community workers in the changing social and political context. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Social Change
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Christian, Mark – Community Development Journal, 1998
Attempts to clarify empowerment as used in black communities in the United Kingdom, using Liverpool as a case study. Illustrates the ambiguity of the concept and the incomplete success of empowerment initiatives for community development and improvement. (SK)
Descriptors: Black Community, Community Action, Community Development, Empowerment
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Arce, Alberto – Community Development Journal, 2003
Both community development and sustainable livelihood approaches ignore value contestations that underlie people's interests and experiences. A case from Bolivia demonstrates that local values, social relations, actions, and language strategies must underlie policy and method in development. (Contains 28 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Foreign Countries, Policy Formation, Sustainable Development
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Cruikshank, Jane – Community Development Journal, 1989
Discusses a study of burnout among 25 community development practitioners. Indicates that those experiencing more severe forms of burnout were employed in grassroots staff positions. (JOW)
Descriptors: Burnout, Community Development, Community Organizations, Foreign Countries
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Croft, Suzy; Beresford, Peter – Community Development Journal, 1988
The authors describe their experiences working with a community organization to get their landlords to make needed repairs on their rental units. (JOW)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Housing
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Knox, Colin; Hughes, Joanne – Community Development Journal, 1994
Offers a case study that examines the methodological problems of evaluating a community relations program in Northern Ireland. Recommends a quantitative and qualitative approach to evaluation and raises issues that must be addressed when evaluating community development programs. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Community Development, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Policy
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Johnson, Chris – Community Development Journal, 1998
In conflict-torn Afghanistan, international nongovernmental organizations are attempting to build indigenous capacity for development. Strategies include support for women, involvement of local elders, and integration of internal and external value systems. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Conflict Resolution, Females, Foreign Countries
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Fletcher, Colin – Community Development Journal, 1988
The author presents an account of participatory research and argues for its relevance and development in Europe. He includes two illustrations showing that the knowledge that people themselves produce opposes abstract theories about them. The author concludes that the two main types of participatory research are those of professional intervention…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Foreign Countries
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Booth, Martin – Community Development Journal, 1997
Two community councils in England (Middlesbrough and Islington) used very different organizational models in implementing decentralization and democratization policies. Both communities considered community development and participation central to the success of the policies. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Decentralization, Foreign Countries, Local Government
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