Duty of care and proportionality (reference: AfrikaBurn WELL)

This draft merges what the community actually said across 8 source items — every source ID is permanent and traceable.

• WELL-004 The civic life of AfrikaBurn in Tankwa Town and other places we co-create are not utopian. There are occasions where default life impacts the spaces in which we strive to invent the world anew. Over the years of community building, the Civic Responsibilities have emerged as three centres of care:
• WELL-005 People – ourselves and others
• WELL-006 Culture – the principles in practise
• WELL-007 Property – the resources base
• WELL-008 Over the many years of community building through the AfrikaBurn event, the organisers Afrika Burns Creative Projects have had to manage a variety of negative incidents that have been harmful to people, have posed risk or caused harm to our culture, and involved damage to or theft of property.
• WELL-009 The organisation’s response to incidents under this policy is therefore informed by a duty of care, to minimise or remove imminent and evident risk of harm to people, culture or property.
• WELL-010 It is recognized that within a culture of experimentation, infractions will occur. Some people may have differing understandings of care to ours and harm can sometimes arise without malice. Our responses are therefore intended to be as proportionate as possible.
• WELL-011 This policy & process is considered iterative on those that have gone before, and will no doubt be further refined in future.

Themes · scope of community safety · governance and legitimacy · investigation and fairness