Links and documents:
1. Citizenship, Cohesion and Solidarity (12/03/2010)
Nick Johnson, Professor Ted Cantle, Professor Ed Fieldhouse, Sukhvinder Kaur-Stubbs, Professor John Clarke, Dilwar Hussain, Hetan Shah, Raja Miah, Erin Hoekstra, Meena Bharadwa.
(ISBN 1 905370 35 0) Published 2008
2. Bridging community divides. The impact of grassroots bridge building activities (January 2009)
Harris, M.E. and Young, P. in Policy and Politics 37,4 517-534, Institute for Voluntary Action Research .
3. Communities and Local Government. Publications
4. Building Cohesive Communities . What frontline staff and activists need to know (October 2009)
Jo Broadwood and Nicola Sugden
5. Equally Spaced. Public space and interaction between diverse communities (July 2007)
Demos, Hannah Lownsbrough, Joost Beunderman
6. Community engagement and community cohesion (June 2008)
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
7. Connecting with communities (14 October 2009)
Institute of Community Cohesion, Presentation to the iCoCo/CLG seminar, Professor Ted Cantle CBE (Executive Chair, iCoCo)
8. Building Community Cohesion (February 2009)
Institute of Community Cohesion
9. Managing the impacts of migration: Improvements and innovations (March 2009)
Institute of Community Cohesion
10. What Works in Enabling Cross-Community Interactions? Perspectives on Good Policy & Practice (March 2009)
This report by Andrew Orton for the National Community Forum briefly reviews the evidence for the current state of community interaction within England, together with theoretical approaches such as 'contact theory' which can inform activities that bring individuals and groups together. Building on this basis, the report then draws on the extensive expertise of 28 practitioners from across the country selected because of their diverse grassroots experience of bringing different individuals and groups together.
11. Guidance on meaningful interaction: How encouraging positive relationships between people can help build community cohesion (January 2009)
Communities and Local Government, CLG
Sets out CLG's knowledge about meaningful interaction, based on research findings and the views of expert practitioners.
12. Cohesion Delivery Framework 2010: Overview (10 March 2010)
13. The art of powerful questions (2003)
World Café, Eric E. Vogt, Juanita Brown, and David Isaacs.
14. Café to go (2008) A quick reference guide for putting conversations to work.
15. Take part. The national framework for active learning for active citizenship (December 2006)
This framework was a collaborative effort, drawing together the expertise of many skilled practitioners in the fields of community development, community engagement and education.
16. Fostering Dialogue Across Divides. Public conversations manual (April 2006)
Public Conversations Project, Maggie Herzig and Laura Chasin
17. A Strong Community: Building Resilience in Newham (May 2011)
Consultation with various stakeholders working in the community sector in Newham.
18. Charm Offensive. Cultivating civility in 21st Century Britain (2011)
Young Foundation Report on civility: how we behave towards each other and what might be done to influence this.
