Embedding schools within wider communities, as the school sport partnerships aim to do, is admirable.
Essentially, we should stop seeing local communities as the source of the problems.
Attempts have also been made to use older regional communities as the infrastructure for new systems of regional government.
What is important from a grassroots perspective is that social protection systems do not replace the responsibility of families and communities as the first protectors.
Palestine would be a "home for the Jewish people" provided that nothing would prejudice the rights of the "existing non-Jewish communities", as the Palestinians were described.
Many said they felt they had no choice but to protect their homes, businesses and communities as the police were overwhelmed and outnumbered.
Even as flooded and broken levees forced people from their homes and devastated crops, the spillage helped spare other communities as the river spread farther inland.
The crisis is turning villages into ghost communities, as the Chin leave their homes in search of food, or a new life, in India.
Shouldn't the school-tax windfall from the project be shared among neighboring communities, as the county assessor has proposed, rather than being dumped lavishly on Uniondale?
Today, when a third of the adult population lives alone, myself included, it is difficult to remember a time when people saw close-knit communities as the future.
In this process was born the idea of Britain as "a community of communities", as the influential 2000 Parekh report on multiculturalism put it.
