Webinar on ‘Building a More Caring World: Implications for the Community’

26 AUGUST 2023   

The overall webinar series focuses on the importance of care in sustaining life and developing human capabilities. Unfortunately, care has not been recognized for its true value in almost all societies. While deliberations in the previous webinar centred on the close relationship between the systemic devaluation of care and patriarchy, the focus of discussions in this webinar will be the role of the community as a space for accessing and providing care.

After the family, it is the community consisting of people living in geographic proximity to each other that provides the most natural setting for building relationships and networks of care. As was demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the context of care, the importance of strong communities with established practices of reciprocity and mutual support cannot be overstated. Yet, today most communities are in crisis, with growing apathy and individualism on the one hand and an increasing trend towards insularity and parochialism in social relationships on the other. The challenge then is to develop purposeful, cohesive and inclusive communities where all are valued and cared for effectively and equally irrespective of their social, economic or religious backgrounds.

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