Drishti - Centre for Integral Action, Vancouver, BC, CA
Abstract
Spanish version available in IDRC Digital Library: Desarrollo comunitario integral en El Salvador de la posguerra : Centro Bartolomé de las CasasThis case study explores the unique response
that CBC offers the Salvadoran people. It
is unique for a number of reasons, which
I discuss further below; some of which
include:
1) The approach is open
to integrate disciplines, and to
bring together opposing groups
into dialogue, so to explore
differences and find unity.
2) The approach uses innovative
methodologies to integrate interiority
into all programming, working
with faith, subjectivity, self-identity, trauma, and personal power.
3) This focus on interiority is
integrated with the concurrent work
with exterior systems, such as local
economic needs, gender equality,
and community development.
4) The work facilitates self-development,
and healthy at
several levels of the spectrum of
human psychology, as a key part
of community wellbeing and as
part of their own personal work
as development practitioners
