Considering the Relationships among Social Conflict, Social Imaginaries, Resilience, and Community-based Organization Leadership

This article focuses on the question of what role community-based organization leaders play in shaping the possibility for the emergence of new social imaginaries. It argues that deep social conflicts and efforts to secure purposive change are likely to demand strong civil society organization respo...

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Published in:Ecology and society 2011-01, Vol.16 (1), p.34, Article art34
Main Author: Stephenson, Max O.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil society
Communities
Community associations
Epistemology
Human ecology
Morality
Nongovernmental organizations
post-conflict situations
resilience
Social change
Social conflict
social imaginaries
Synecology
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Summary:This article focuses on the question of what role community-based organization leaders play in shaping the possibility for the emergence of new social imaginaries. It argues that deep social conflicts and efforts to secure purposive change are likely to demand strong civil society organization response and that certain forms of imagination are necessary and must be actively employed among community-based leaders if new imaginaries are to be discerned and effectively shared in ways that encourage sustained dialogue and the development of new social understandings. The article explores these briefly and draws illustratively upon two relevant examples from the peacebuilding literature to contend that such imagination-led leadership is necessary to catalyze new social imaginaries that can lead to more resilient social orders.
ISSN:1708-3087
1708-3087
DOI:10.5751/es-03953-160134