ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores several community development researchers aimed to re-frame the discourse of Wicked Problems and create new spaces for potential community development contributions. It illustrates how importing the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework into indigenous practice can be highly problematic, at least if not locally adapted. The book discusses the power of an external intervention, but one well balanced with a dialogical practice sensitive to the co-learning at play between practitioners, policy makers and local actors. It describes the dynamic interplay of systems, institutions and local places, demanding of practitioners a sophisticated framework of working up and down, in and out. The book discusses how the research journey itself helps the researcher embrace a spirit of discovery and also discover a decolonising ethic of research practice. It focuses on the quality of the researcher, co-create, see and search in "forms of collective world-making".
