Jenny Pearce enters a plea to learn some of the lessons from the vast amount of resources, human and capital, in peace building. She identifies some of the key lessons emerging from peacebuilding thinking and practice over the last decade. She looks at the three ‘levels’ in which the global...

Jenny Pearce reports on a scoping study called ‘Power in Community’ in which she carried out ‘Power Talks’ with community activists in the North of England. She first gives a comprehensive analysis of the meaning of power, ranging from the classic concept of dominating power (power to)...

Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler describe what happens in the development of society as a political project. They present their Civic Driven Change: a framework for socio-political analysis and action, which has been refined and elaborated in earlier studies.