Building consensus online
From:
Peter Cruickshank
Date:
Feb 01 15:31 UTC
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Hi Miles
In your last email you wrote:
> ... Has
> anybody seen any approaches - online or NOT online - for building
> consensus among groups of any size.
Did you see David Newman's response on 21 January where he outlines a
process that finds "what people will settle for if they cannot all get
their first choice. In trials in Northern Ireland, it has even found
consensus between Sinn Fein and DUP supporters, in the years before
money brought them together in government
Note that this only covers options on one issue. If the best solutions
require trading off different questions (you get A if I get B), then a
system based on interest-based negotiation (as in the Harvard
Negotiating Project and some of John Zeleznikow's systems for mediating
divorces) would be better."
Seems a good starting point? Apologies if you had seen it or you feel
this doesn't meet your needs.
Peter
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