“Community Institutions are Community Laws”. The formation of Community institutions is based on religious freedom and spontaneous creativity, which is informed by people’s knowledge, their understanding and experience, and the costs incurred in acquiring these. Such an assembly of knowledge and experience is drawn and gathered from the community’s historical process of living in intimate proximity with the natural world. The lessons drawn from this process have culminated into articles of faith and belief and have become the requirements of day-to-day practice for every member of the community.
Community institutions are the measures of cultural behavior patterns and their educational and nurturing modes. These patterns and modes are based on inclusivity and oriented towards the prestige of VOLUNTARY initiatives instead of punishment and guilt attribution.
Community institutions lend themselves to the conceiving and resolving of shortcomings and mistakes as the causes for solution to and amelioration in institutional prestige as well as the dialectical valorisation of the institutions in the course of time and the extent of space (diachronically and synchronically).
All community institutions hold an HEREDITARY value specific to each of them because their crystallization is founded on the particular knowledge, understanding and adaptive experience accumulated by each community as well as its capital of voluntary resources and community trust value.
That is why community institutions are able to satisfy and realize all endeavours for each member with respect to the ethics of being human. These are community-oriented endeavours rather than individual pursuits of minimal penalty from the law.
Community institutions are expressions of a social democracy with a flair for freedom in its classical sense – a capital accrued throughout their social history and a social foundation which the world’s institutional capital of today, with all the mistakes made over the last 200 years, need CONVERTING to perhaps?
Tran Thi Lanh
Cao Quang Agro-Forestry and Ecological Service Cooperative 
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