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Robert Chambers - Cutting Edge Challenges for Mainstreaming Participatory Approaches

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Robert Chambers gave a public lecture at the Hector Kobekkaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute last evening, organised by Mallika Samaranayake and IPID.  I was invited to provide a 'felicitation' address in a felicitation ceremony that  preceded Robert Chambers' lecture on the above subject, and included talks by Mallika, Professor Madduma Bandara and Professor Hiran Dias.  Below you will find the full text of my felicitation speech -but before that some random gleanings from Chambers' talk! Definition:  ERR - Egocentric Reminiscence Ratio - increases with age and with alcohol consumption, is higher in men than in women Quotation from Doctor Zeuss - "Adults are obsolete children"   Qualitative methodologies have the 'rigour of democratic interaction'. Quotation from Gandhi - " We must become the change we wish to see" and now, my 'felicitation address': It is a very great privileg