Politics
People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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This section features initiatives and approaches towards people-centred governance and decision-making, with direct participation, and based on principles of social and environmental justice. This includes initiatives attempting to realize local non-hierarchical systems of decision-making in urban and rural areas, and linkages of these to each other at bio-cultural levels. This would also include collectives or communities that raise non-party political concerns at the local level and beyond, as well as initiatives that enhance accountability and transparency of political bodies. It will include alternative policy frameworks that are based on or promote the alternative economies featured elsewhere on this site, such as meaningful practices and concepts of well-being, instead of the mainstream development model which focuses on economic growth.
At 75, is India behaving like a responsible elder? Its ecological record does not indicate it is…
How can livelihood security and dignity be ensured for hundreds of millions of people in ways that also ensure ecological security?
Open Prisons Work – Lessons From India
Open prisons are a humane solution for rehabilitation, leading to negligible rates of recidivism, at a fraction of the cost of regular prisons.
PRESS RELEASE- URGENT NEED TO SUPPORT GOBA SYSTEM OF LADAKH
Encouraging the UT Administration and the Hill Council, along with Ladakhi society, to recognise and strengthen the goba (or nambardar) system.
The Kadar Community Chart An Inspirational Journey Of Resilience As They Take Back Their Forests
The Kadars of Tamil Nadu, displaced from their ancestral forests in 2019, have fought hard to win back what is rightfully theirs.
Support for Auroville’s Experiments on Well-being
We need Auroville as an autonomous laboratory for evolving some pathways towards well-being and development through collective living and work.
मेंढा (लेखा) के श्री. देवाजी तोफा को मानद D.Litt. (in Hindi)
"दिल्ली मुंबई में हमारी सरकार, हमारे गाव में हमही सरकार !"
Aamcha Jungle Dennar Nahi (We will not hand over our forest)
"We've been conserving the forest for millennia. Even our songs are similar to the sounds of animals..."
Janta Ka Faisla: A Citizens’ Jury of Migrants
The deliberations and the verdict of the first Janta ka Faisla can become a model for how Indian society should learn from its most vulnerable citizens
The development plan that could end up sinking Lakshadweep islands
Why cause irreparable damage to the ecology and generate large-scale livelihood pressures?