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Cultural context remains in descriptions. Titles now uniformly use the practice name without prefixing the culture, country, religion, or people. e.g. 'Quaker Meeting for Worship' -> 'Meeting for Worship', 'Moroccan Jmaa Village Assembly' -> 'Jmaa Village Assembly', 'Aboriginal Yarning Circle' -> 'Yarning Circle'. 43 titles updated across the seed library.
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id: moroccan-jmaa-village
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title: Jmaa Village Assembly
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description: >-
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A Moroccan Berber (Amazigh) and Arab practice of village assembly
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governance, where the men of the village gather to manage water, land,
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and communal affairs by discussion and consensus. Found across rural
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Morocco, particularly in the Atlas regions, the jmaa predates and
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complements state structures.
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source: Moroccan Amazigh village tradition / Association Amoud
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source_url: https://www.amoud.ma/
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tags: [moroccan, amazigh, berber, jmaa, governance, indigenous]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Convene the jmaa
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description: >-
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The senior men of the village convene the jmaa at a known meeting
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place — often the mosque square or a tree. All adult male
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household heads may attend.
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- headline: Present the matter
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description: >-
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The matter — water allocation, a land dispute, a communal work — is
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presented. Each affected household speaks through its head.
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- headline: Deliberate to consensus
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description: >-
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The jmaa deliberates until consensus is reached. The senior members
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guide but do not impose; a decision without consensus does not hold.
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- headline: Pronounce and record by memory
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description: >-
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The decision is pronounced and held in collective memory — often
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unwritten. The jmaa's authority rests on communal recognition, not
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on a document.
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- headline: Enforce collectively
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description: >-
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The village collectively enforces the decision. Sanctions for
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violation are communal — exclusion from water rotation, from
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communal labour — not imposed by a separate body.
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outcome: >-
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Village affairs are governed by consensus of household heads, with
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decisions enforced collectively and held in communal memory.
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practice: >-
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The jmaa's unwritten character depends on continuity of memory and
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attendance. Where young men no longer attend, the form ages and
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weakens. Water allocation is the test — a jmaa that cannot govern
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water has lost its function. |