8/24/2014
Participatory governance, could it serve to prevent the next violent Arab Spring revolution?
I am pleased to notice that Mr.William Colom Montero, a Research Engineer in Uppsala University, Sweden, along with several other LinkedIn members and experts, is also interested in the subject of "PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE". Having studied this approach for the past five years, I believe that more people are beginning to realize that it may prove to become a part of the solution to the ills of our modern society.
For instance, had participatory governance" been previously introduced and practiced in Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Egypt, Syria or Irak, these countries would have been spared the damaging consequences of the "Arab Spring" revolutions. In medical jargon, “PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE” is a more potent, and less harmful preventive medicine that may render, one day, revolutions obsolete.
If you get the citizens to have their say in governance and take part in it, they will eventually realize that they have only themselves to blame when things go wrong. They would then be inclined to be more tolerant toward their leaders who would have become their partners instead. Having met, at first hand, through participation, the problems faced by the Authorities, they would become more tolerant toward them, and would prefer to cooperate with them in introducing and implementing the needed reforms that they recommended, instead of resorting to violent protests, demonstrations, and civil unrest.
This is my understanding of “PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE”.
The new L.N.D.P. (The Lebanese National Development Plan) that we are working presently on developing and introducing in Lebanon, is intended to be the typical ENGINE of that MEASURED APPROACH.
Anybody who shares my point of view, or is opposed to it, is kindly required to state it on this blog.
George Sabat (A.C.M.A.)
Participatory governance, could it serve to prevent the next violent Arab Spring revolution?
I am pleased to notice that Mr.William Colom Montero, a Research Engineer in Uppsala University, Sweden, along with several other LinkedIn members and experts, is also interested in the subject of "PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE". Having studied this approach for the past five years, I believe that more people are beginning to realize that it may prove to become a part of the solution to the ills of our modern society.
For instance, had participatory governance" been previously introduced and practiced in Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Egypt, Syria or Irak, these countries would have been spared the damaging consequences of the "Arab Spring" revolutions. In medical jargon, “PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE” is a more potent, and less harmful preventive medicine that may render, one day, revolutions obsolete.
If you get the citizens to have their say in governance and take part in it, they will eventually realize that they have only themselves to blame when things go wrong. They would then be inclined to be more tolerant toward their leaders who would have become their partners instead. Having met, at first hand, through participation, the problems faced by the Authorities, they would become more tolerant toward them, and would prefer to cooperate with them in introducing and implementing the needed reforms that they recommended, instead of resorting to violent protests, demonstrations, and civil unrest.
This is my understanding of “PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE”.
The new L.N.D.P. (The Lebanese National Development Plan) that we are working presently on developing and introducing in Lebanon, is intended to be the typical ENGINE of that MEASURED APPROACH.
Anybody who shares my point of view, or is opposed to it, is kindly required to state it on this blog.
George Sabat (A.C.M.A.)
