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Ability to facilitate tolerance, discussions and collaboration across differences (historical and ongoing).
How this is performed now...
- Process organizers Process organizers make adaptations to normal methods to account for added complexities.
- Citizens' assembly organizers Citizens' assemblies organizers will make adaptations, such as not listing names on name badges, to disrupt ethnic profiling before social bonds can be built. They might also rotate the location of the venue to balance time spent in different regions or neighbourhoods. Facilitation teams might be intentionally representative of all sides of an issue or completely distinct. The process overall would spend more time building connections and prioritize hearing from everyone before moving through the workflow.
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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.
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Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies
Research on deliberation in divided societies