Sentences with phrase «community authority structures»
... the lack of cultural knowledge on the part of governments and the non-indigenous community in general has led to polices which continually cuts across the often informal Aboriginal community authority structures.
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The whole structure of authority would grow out of community, communities of communities, and communities of communities of communities.
Whether Rama or Ravana ruled, whatever political authority structures came into being or disappeared, they had but minimum impact on the life of the various village communities; they continued to live in some kind of internal self - sufficiency according to their different traditions, with Custom as the real King.
Within that tradition, both in its political and ecclesial expression, authority is a way of ordering power within a community in such a way that, at one and the same time, it supports and augments common beliefs and ways of life and is regularly and harmoniously conjoined with a structure of offices that gives order to the exercise of authority and power within the particular society in question.
Each religious community had its own structure of authority and could handle most legal matters internally.
Just which members are so bound will depend upon variables specific to particular communities — such things as the authority structures in place, or the function of representative intellectuals.
In addition, evaluations of the way Ferguson's authority structures relate to their community need to be immediate and perpetual.
At first we worried that this flat structure wouldn't translate once we grew larger, but after awhile I realized a community like ours probably won't ever experience rapid growth - most people want an authority.
Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.
Sociologists and anthropologists have investigated the social functions of religion in the unification of a community, the celebration of its shared values, the legitimation or criticism of its authority structures, and so forth.
(5) The structure of the Decalogue appears to be thoughtfully wrought out and conceived as a concentrated statement of the expansive body of Israel's torah - that body of instructional matter which has to do with the regulating of Israel's life in the Covenant community and which was recorded as carrying in itself the authority of Moses and God.
And one could go on and on with this kind of analysis, showing that fundamentalists have a fairly predictable — and common — structure in their moral discourse, that their discourse contains certain distinctions about self, knowledge, agency, authority, community, and the like.
«Prior to granting any significant extension of this authority, the Senate believes public hearings should be held to assess the current structure and identify any possible areas of improvement including but not limited to creating heightened parental involvement in Community Education Councils and the Panel for Education Policy,» the resolution states.
These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.
The centrality of traditional practices in Somali society is such that most of the legal interventions even when it comes to sexual violence tends to be undertaken by clan or community authorities through the customary laws structures.
As with the adoption of the Microsoft operating system or VHS, communities accepted these near - universal standards and structures with no central authority imposing them.
And finally, community members seeing how the standards, and the PLC meetings structured around the standards, improve student learning may buy - into the reform and ascribe authority to the state's policy to adopt the standards.
«The fig leaf of «parental choice», «school autonomy» and «raising standards» has finally been dropped and the government's real agenda has been laid bare — all schools removed from collaborative structures within a local authority family of schools, all schools instead run by remote academy trusts, unaccountable to parents, staff or local communities.»
Advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the community benefit structure for the extension of national low level radioactive waste repository near Drigg.
They advise property owners, developers, community groups, local authorities, and commercial organizations not only on new construction, but the reuse of existing structures and spaces.
Higher - order regional levels of jurisdictional authority are likely not to be sustainable unless community governance structures and processes are in reasonable order.
These types of decision - making structures can create positions of power and build divisions in our communities as some of us benefit (or are perceived to benefit) from decisions made by individuals in a position of authority.
Both are still in initial phases of consultation with Indigenous communities in the proposed regions and have acknowledged that the establishment of authorities, or other structures and approaches for progressing autonomy, will be a lengthy process.
A further dimension of authorities that has some appeal is their capacity to provide a vehicle for Indigenous aspirations such as those expressed by the Aboriginal Nations of Central Australia in the Kalkaringi Statement, that is, «the rights of self - determination and self - government, including recognition of the role of Indigenous governance structures and the direct Commonwealth funding of Indigenous communities and organisations, and recognition of customary law».
Capacity building and community development — governments and the private sector have a role to assist Indigenous peoples build community capacity in a way which respects Indigenous decision - making processes, authority structures and collective identity.
This has been a major issue in Australia where the foisting of a variety of «community» council structures on settlements and missions in Australia from the late 1960's on in the name of «self - management» or «self - determination» contributed to undermining traditional authority structures, had little credibility in the eyes of community members, and may well have contributed to the social dysfunction that has developed in many communities over the past 20 to 30 years - in Harvard Project terms, there was a monumental lack of cultural fit.
These processes must not only respect Indigenous authority structures but also engage with the entire community to ensure they are not hijacked and used to inflame group divisions and tensions.