https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/robert-chambers-on-the-fifth-power-the-power-to-empower/ How active citizens and effective states can change the world Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:52:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/robert-chambers-on-the-fifth-power-the-power-to-empower/#comment-4459 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:20:53 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=12489#comment-4459 No-one beats the Quakers on that one. You finish giving a rousing speech to a Quaker meeting and no-one claps. They all sit in silence and reflect on what you have just said. Extremely disturbing and effective!

]]> https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/robert-chambers-on-the-fifth-power-the-power-to-empower/#comment-4458 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:31:44 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=12489#comment-4458 I like this contribution, though I do not think that the question, or the suggestions, are in any way new. It is the most obvious of all questions – I hope other readers will add strategies. Loved the sweet sucking one! I remember how Brian Goodwin at Schumacher College in Devon used to say ‘Participation is in the Pause’. He meant that everyone should take time to listen, to be still, to think, to reflect. It is not only about filling silence with sound, but about everyone taking time out.

]]> https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/robert-chambers-on-the-fifth-power-the-power-to-empower/#comment-4457 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:53:57 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=12489#comment-4457 Power added

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