Related government policy

In 2001, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (OPDM) commissioned a pilot into conflict resolution approaches which it called the Community Facilitation Programme. The Tavistock Institute was asked to evaluate the programme in 2004 - click here to see the evaluation. The evaluation highlights the importance of a range of approaches such as ours in building 'competent communities' -
‘The study indicates that there are valuable lessons to emerge from the CFP with implications for future programmes and practice. … The relationships between conflict resolution, community facilitation and community cohesion might be described as ‘nested’: each is subsumed in the next and they are essentialy linked. … There should be an emphasis on building long term and sustainable capacity (e.g. through funding, training and extending statutory responsibility) and permanent infrastructures’

Research Report 13: Evaluation of the Community Facilitation Programme, ODPM, 2004

The summary of the evaluation is also available, but not as interesting to those who want to understand the value and linkage between community cohesion and conflict resolution work.

Click here - to read Community Resolve's response to the consultation by the Commission for Integration and Cohesion (January 07)

You might also find the Government's practitioner toolkit - 'Community Cohesion: Seven Steps' interesting - published March 2005.