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Good neighbours – Relationships are often a function of the ability to dialogue with each other constructively; the importance of liaison committees
Change requires consultation – we all know this. It is one of the reasons why public engagement is so important in these days of deficit-reduction and massive organisational upheavals.
But other conditions also place a premium on the ability of people and bodies to maintain a reasonable dialogue. They include those situations when different entities have to live side-by-side, and where the American poet Robert Frosts’s famous line applies:- Good fences make good neighbours!
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