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Dimension: Robustness

Navigate conflict

Ability to address, resolve and navigate conflicts that emerge within the process.

Maturity:
Low
Importance:
High
Opportunity:
High
Neglectedness:
High
Transnational:
Minimal

How this is performed now...

  • Process organizers Process organizers will isolate and address conflicting participants to mediate or resolve the issue.
  • Citizens' assembly organizers Citizens' assemblies facilitators will monitor for the potential escalation of disagreements and proactively separate and mediate.

Related Resources

Research

Deliberative Democracy in Divided Societies: Alternatives to Agonism and Analgesia

In this article, Dryzek explores the role that deliberative democracy can play in navigating identity-based conflict in divided societies. He specifically looks into the combination of power-sharing governance and transnational, state-independent deliberative spaces.
John S. Dryzek
Research

Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies

Research on deliberation in divided societies
Ian O'Flynn and Didier Caluwaerts
Research

Citizens’ assemblies in fragile and conflict-affected settings

Deliberative democracy in divided societies (e.g., Dryzek, 2005; O’Flynn and Caluwaerts, 2018; Curato 2025)
Nicole Curato, Lucy J Parry and Melisa Ross

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