This reflection draws from the collective insights of approximately 60 members of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, who come from all walks of life and hail from diverse backgrounds. Their focus on local level initiatives and activities have provided them with a unique insight into the threat of polarization to local democracy. This reflection seeks to summarize the remedies they identified, based on the transcript of their discussions, to overcome local polarization. Through this reflection, it is hoped that these remedies can be used to effectively bridge the divides of local polarization.
About the Practitioner Series
The “ABCD Practitioner Series” consists of occasional publications by Stewards of the Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute at DePaul University’s Steans Center. The purpose of this series is to share experiences and insights about the application of ABCD principles in a wide variety of different settings. These publications are made available to stimulate further creativity among an emerging community of practitioners around the world.
This paper was originally published on www.abcdinstitute.org.
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Going Further:
- Rev. Ben McBride: The Slow Practice of Belonging (The Common Good)
- Re-Learning to Solve Our Problems Together (Mathews)
- ‘Beloved Community’ is a Present Possibility (Sellassie)