A Grass Root Governance Model: South African Peace Committees
V. Luker, S. Dinnen, & A. Patience (Eds). Law, order and HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Pandanus (2006)
12 Pages Posted: 20 Jun 2016 Last revised: 13 Nov 2019
Date Written: 2006
Abstract
In the Introduction to this volume Luker and Dinnen draw attention to a model that has been developed in South Africa, and tested in Argentina, that has developed a simply and routinized set of institutional arrangements for bringing people together in deliberative forums to create “a better tomorrow” in response both to specific disputes and more general issues of community development. They also mention the work of Aral, Burris and Shearing who have argued for the applicability of this model in responding to sexually transmitted infections. The editors have asked us to set out briefly the nature of the model’s arrangements and the way in which they are being used in South Africa.
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