Neighbourhood-centred conflict mediation

Blad, John

doi:10.1007/bf02736679

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“…Citizens may also be motivated because they can no longer bear witnessing the human costs of ineffective or counter-productive policy and channel their frustration into practical experiments that seek to address the issue at hand. Citizen-led restorative justice programmes, for example, have emerged around the world to address both crime and criminal justice responses to crime (Blad, 1996;Zinsstag and Vanfaechem, 2012). In the case of the Baltimore Community Conferencing Center, a group of citizens were motivated to help people handle situations where police did nothing to stop teenagers from vandalizing cars and would have made a harmful situation worse by giving young people criminal records that make them less employable (Abramson and Beck, 2010;Abramson and Moore, 2001).…”

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Citizens’ Governance Spaces: Democratic Action Through Disruptive Collective Problem-Solving

Hendriks

Dzur

2021

Political Studies

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This article investigates the practical form of citizen engagement that occurs in collective problem-solving efforts such as civic enterprises, grassroots initiatives and self-help groups. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence from diverse policy fields, it articulates the distinct experimental and disruptive policy work that citizens enact in these citizens’ governance spaces and challenges dominant interpretations which view them as either (i) a testament to the capacity of citizens to effectively solve complex public problems or (ii) a symptom of advanced neoliberalism where states off-load complex problems onto citizens. The article moves beyond this dualism to consider the motivations, challenges, available resources and distinct democratic work enacted by citizens in these spaces of bottom-up governance. Citizens’ governance spaces, the article concludes, offer important lessons – both in terms of potential benefits and risks – for the project of deepening the quality and reach of citizen participation in modern systems of democracy.

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Section: Cgs Feature 1: Led and Driven By Citizensmentioning

confidence: 99%