Demonstrating deliberative systems locally

Motivating local global decision potential

Description

Demonstrating deliberative systems locally involves implementing structured, participatory decision-making processes within communities to address shared challenges. This strategy empowers diverse stakeholders to collaboratively deliberate, generate solutions, and reach consensus on local issues. By modeling transparent, inclusive governance, it remedies problems of public disengagement, mistrust, and ineffective policy implementation, fostering social cohesion and more responsive, accountable institutions. Local demonstrations provide practical templates for scaling deliberative practices to broader contexts.

Claim

The state of affairs in the world at large is achieving an ever-greater impact on the personal life of the individual and many people are reasserting their power of choice. They want to participate fully and freely in the decisions affecting the way they live and to be allowed to make choices in accordance with their own priorities, aspirations and circumstances. There is the awareness that as members of an interconnected global community, the way of thinking and way of life of each individual inevitably has an influence or effect, even if too small to be perceived, on the overall state of affairs of the world. Boundary lines around the world are dissolving, and with them, the boundaries of the minds.