Climate Assembly members think and act differently on climate, two years on
By Sarah Allan, Involve
Processes like climate assemblies provide one way to build a democracy where more people have a stake in the decisions we all take about our future.
Tag: deliberative democracy
Democracy Rising 27: The Garden of Democracy
By Tom Prugh, Resilience.org
Think of it as a garden: you start with the soil, preparing it for seeding, and you work with the grassroots, cultivating a crop and nurturing it carefully over time. Democracy is more like an annual crop than a perennial one; it needs to be refreshed periodically. It won’t keep thriving if it’s left alone.
Democracy Rising 26: Middle Schoolers as Deliberative Civic Actors
By Stacie Molnar-Main, Resilience.org
In addition to fostering communication and thinking skills, deliberation can lead to changes in how young people engage as learners and citizens.
Democracy Rising 25: Young Children as Classroom Citizens
By Joni Doherty, Mindy LaBreck, Resilience.org
All of the participating teachers agreed that their understanding of citizenship changed from one that emphasized following rules and helping others to one that fostered student engagement in making decisions together about shared problems in the classroom community and beyond.
Democracy Rising 24: Scaling Deliberation—Austrian Citizens’ Councils
By Rosa Zubizarreta, Resilience.org
Citizens’ Councils can also be part of a broader range of processes used within a given region to support a larger “deliberative system.”
Democracy Rising 23: Scaling Deliberation—the Maclean’s Magazine Experiment
By Tom Atlee, Resilience.org
Despite their differences, the intense time pressure, and being continuously filmed by a crew from Canadian TV (for an hour-long public affairs program) these ordinary citizens by the end of their third day had all signed a detailed, co-created, visionary agreement charting a course to greater mutual understanding by all Canadians.
Democracy Rising 22: Deliberation and the Promise of Place
By Susan Clark, Resilience.org
The good news is that when place-based wisdom informs local solutions, the solutions are all the more sustainable.
Democracy Rising 21: Looking Deliberatively at the Past
By Joni Doherty, Resilience.org
In Teaching History for the Common Good, Keith C. Barton and Linda S. Levstik recognize that the past can be used “in a variety of ways, and for a variety of purposes.” One of these is to use history’s “potential to prepare students for participation in a pluralist democracy.”
Democracy Rising 20: Deliberative Dialogue as Service Learning
By Jessica Traylor, Resilience.org
Through deliberative pedagogy, students are prepared to participate in solving problems important to them and their communities.
Democracy Rising 19: Dialogue in Dixie
By Hollie Cost, Resilience.org
The literal heart of Dixie (the U.S. Deep South) is the very last place one might expect to see a community rallying around the idea of acceptance and inclusivity—especially if the community is a small town in Alabama declaring itself a safe, nurturing, and inviting space for LGBTQ+ individuals.
Deliberative Democracy and Gaianism: Natural Complements
By Tom Prugh, Gaianism
Deliberative democracy (DD) shares some key features with Gaianism and is intrinsically compatible with it, to the point that Gaians might think about taking an interest in practicing and promoting DD.
Democracy Rising 18: Deliberation, Free Speech, and Democracy
By Daniel Kemmis, Resilience.org
We all have a sense (though often only a fairly vague sense) that free speech is somehow crucial to democracy. But why should that be the case?