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POWER TO THE PEOPLE THE USE OF FORUMS IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN POSTAPARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

POWER TO THE PEOPLE THE USE OF FORUMS IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN POSTAPARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA After the Mandela government took power in 1994 in South Africa, one of its highest priorities was providing power to the impoverished rural areas, and particularly the infrastructurepoor black townships. In addition to a scarcity of resources, multiple stakeholders with very different agendas were integrally a part of the decisionmaking process. To this extent, what happened with the electricity industry is a metaphor for the multiple issuessocial, economic, and politicalwhich had to be negotiated by the new society. The multiple stakeholders were brought together in a Forum, a nonregulatory advisory body which was designed to specifically include all relevant interested parties in an open transparent problemsolving process. This forum system was extensively used in the 1824 months immediately before and after the 1994 elections to deal with a host of issues. The National Electricity Forum NELF was one of the earliest and most successful of these forums. This case reviews the buildup to the 1994 elections, describes how the forum process worked, and outlines its structure. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Conflict Management Emerald Publishing

POWER TO THE PEOPLE THE USE OF FORUMS IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN POSTAPARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISSN
1044-4068
DOI
10.1108/eb022804
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Abstract

After the Mandela government took power in 1994 in South Africa, one of its highest priorities was providing power to the impoverished rural areas, and particularly the infrastructurepoor black townships. In addition to a scarcity of resources, multiple stakeholders with very different agendas were integrally a part of the decisionmaking process. To this extent, what happened with the electricity industry is a metaphor for the multiple issuessocial, economic, and politicalwhich had to be negotiated by the new society. The multiple stakeholders were brought together in a Forum, a nonregulatory advisory body which was designed to specifically include all relevant interested parties in an open transparent problemsolving process. This forum system was extensively used in the 1824 months immediately before and after the 1994 elections to deal with a host of issues. The National Electricity Forum NELF was one of the earliest and most successful of these forums. This case reviews the buildup to the 1994 elections, describes how the forum process worked, and outlines its structure.

Journal

International Journal of Conflict ManagementEmerald Publishing

Published: Jan 1, 1998

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