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Dimension: Scalability

Work transnationally

Ability to run deliberative processes at the transnational level by navigating challenges such as legitimacy, logistics, and cultures.

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

How this is performed now...

  • Process organizers Process organizers take principles and processes that work in local and national settings and attempt to adapt them to transnational settings.
  • Citizens' assembly organizers Citizens' assembly organizers take principles from national level processes and adapt them to the challenges of facilitating across the globe.

Related Resources

Research

Global Assembly Evaluation Report

The Global Citizens Assembly Network (gloCAN) developed various research notes related to the convening, governing, grounding and docking of global citizens' assemblies, including an evaluation of the world's first global assembly.
Curato et al.
Research

Principles for participant selection in global forums

Principles for how to select participants in global forums.
Dryzek and Niemeyer
Research

Lessons around the impact of the global assembly

This paper focuses on the Global Assembly (GA) held before COP26 in Glasgow. It compares the organisers’ and assembly members’ perceptions of influence with analysis of the GA’s actual influence, by examining the GA’s efforts to ‘couple’ with institutions of global climate governance, and its con...
Conway-Lamb et al.
Research

On sortition and deliberation at the global level

This article draws on the experience of the province of Zambezia in Mozambique as one randomly selected Assembly Member took part in the world’s first Climate Assembly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency. Based on in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and feedback sessions with local ...
Curato et al.
Experimental Practice

Global Climate Assembly

The world's first global citizens' assembly on climate (2021).
Practice

European Commission Citizens' Panels

European Citizens' Panels inform EU legislative processes and are designed to influence transnational policymaking.
Experimental Practice

Stanford Deliberative Polling Methodology

A random, representative sample is first polled on the targeted issues. After this baseline poll, members of the sample are invited to gather at a single place for a weekend in order to discuss the issues. Carefully balanced briefing materials are sent to the participants and are also made public...
Stanford DDL
Experimental Practice

Meta's community forums on Generative AI

For this Community Forum, 887 participants deliberated on ‘how should AI agents provide proactive, personalized experiences for users?’ and ‘how should AI agents and users interact?’.
Experimental Practice

CIP's Global Dialogues

Global AI Dialogues, built in partnership with Remesh and Prolific, creates the infrastructure for regular global public input into the future of AI. The approach utilizes a structured collective dialogue process combining demographic data collection via Prolific, and deliberative discussion and ...
CIP

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Related goals and research questions

Goal: Legitimate mandating and uptake structures for a global assembly that are established in the absence of a sovereign authority

Which existing or novel configurations of multi-stakeholder commitment (such as pre-negotiated adoption pledges from national governments, treaty body referral mechanisms, or voluntary corporate compliance frameworks) may produce the highest rates of recommendation uptake from transnational deliberative processes, and under what conditions?

Relevant disciplines
Political Science Public Policy & Law
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What institutional design features of a mandating body (composition, decision rules, relationship to existing international organizations) are necessary for participants and external audiences to perceive a global assembly as legitimately authorized rather than self-appointed?

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Political Science
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Goal: Design deliberative processes that can function productively across diverse normative and epistemic frameworks

What facilitation protocols and deliberative structures enable groups with fundamentally different reasoning traditions (e.g., rights-based, communitarian, religious) to reach actionable agreements without requiring convergence on underlying justifications?

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Conflict & Peace Studies Ethics & Philosophy
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How should the learning phase of a transnational assembly be designed so that participants from different epistemic cultures assess the evidence base as credible and non-ideological?

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Education & Learning Conflict & Peace Studies
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Goal: Structure participation and agenda-setting so that asymmetric geopolitical power does not predetermine outcomes

What agenda-setting and issue-framing procedures demonstrably prevent the priorities of technology-producing nations or major funders from dominating the scope and terms of deliberation in transnational processes?

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Political Science Ethics & Philosophy
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Goal: Processes that run across time zones without systematically advantaging or disadvantaging any region

What scheduling and modality architectures (rotating synchronous windows, follow-the-sun relays, asynchronous deliberation with structured synthesis) minimize systematic regional disadvantage, and how should fairness be quantified?

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Statistics & Sampling
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What collaboration tooling and facilitation workflows preserve deliberative quality and equal influence when participation is partly asynchronous, especially for drafting, consensus testing, and iteration cycles?

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Communication & Media
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Goal: A single process operates that is compliant with divergent regimes for data, consent, safeguarding, and compensation

What is the minimum viable legal architecture in terms of entity jurisdiction, data routing, and consent frameworks that allows a single deliberative process to lawfully handle participant data across the major regulatory regimes (GDPR, PIPL, LGPD, etc.) without fragmenting the process into siloed national tracks?

Relevant disciplines
Public Policy & Law
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Goal: Design governance, funding, and operational hosting arrangements that are credibly neutral and resilient to geopolitical perceptions of capture

What governance configurations (oversight composition, funding diversification thresholds, operational hosting rotation, and transparency mechanisms) are necessary and sufficient for a global assembly to be perceived as credibly neutral by participants and publics across geopolitical blocs?

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Political Science Ethics & Philosophy
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Goal: A deliberative culture that is shared across divergent procedural norms

What onboarding and norm-setting protocols successfully establish shared procedural expectations (around disagreement, turn-taking, inclusion of dissent, and decision closure) among participants drawn from cultures with fundamentally different conventions for public reasoning and conflict?

Relevant disciplines
Psychology Conflict & Peace Studies
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Which culturally divergent participation norms (e.g., deference to elders, consensus vs. majoritarian instincts, comfort with open disagreement) most frequently cause breakdowns in mixed deliberative settings, and what specific facilitation adaptations are effective at bridging them?

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Psychology Conflict & Peace Studies
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