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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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41 lines
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id: ubuntu-imbizo
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title: Imbizo Community Assembly
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description: >-
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A Southern African community assembly rooted in the philosophy of ubuntu
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("I am because we are"), where community members gather to deliberate
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matters of shared concern. Found across Nguni and other Southern African
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societies, the imbizo is a forum for collective discussion and decision.
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source: Southern African ubuntu tradition / Nelson Mandela Foundation
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source_url: https://www.mandelafoundation.org/
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tags: [ubuntu, southern-african, imbizo, governance, community]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Call the imbizo
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description: >-
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A senior member or chief calls the imbizo, announcing the matter and
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inviting all adult community members to attend.
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- headline: Open with ubuntu
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description: >-
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The convenor opens by affirming ubuntu — that the community is bound
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together and that each person's dignity is tied to the others'.
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- headline: Deliberate together
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description: >-
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Members speak in turn, with elders and those most affected given
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particular attention. The convener seeks the points of agreement
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that all can accept.
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- headline: Decide collectively
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description: >-
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The decision is reached collectively, framed as the community's will
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rather than the chief's. Dissent is acknowledged and recorded.
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- headline: Bind the community
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description: >-
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The decision is pronounced in a way that affirms the ongoing
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relationship of the community, even where some disagreed.
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outcome: >-
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A decision is made that carries the community's collective weight,
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grounded in the recognition that each person belongs to the others.
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practice: >-
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Ubuntu is not a slogan but the premise — that no decision stands apart
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from relationship. If the imbizo becomes a chief's pronouncement, the
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form is broken. |