Pathways Through Participation » deliberation http://pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk What creates and sustains active citizenship? Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:59:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 New Involve publication: Talking for a Change http://pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk/2010/06/new-invole-publication-talking-for-a-change/ http://pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk/2010/06/new-invole-publication-talking-for-a-change/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:51:39 +0000 Eddie Cowling http://pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk/?p=682 Last week saw the launch of Involve‘s latest publication. “Talking for a Change” provides new thinking for policy makers about how citizen engagement and dialogue can inform and strengthen more traditional forms of decision-making. In doing so it highlights how active engagement of citizens can revitalise our democracy and help tackle some of the biggest issues facing democracies in the 21st century including climate change and the ageing society. A ‘typology of issues’ is illustrated and the authors make a case for why the most complex, distributed and large scale issues require a radical new approach.  

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]]> http://pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk/2010/06/new-invole-publication-talking-for-a-change/feed/ 0 Making good society: growing participatory and deliberative democracy http://pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk/2010/03/making-good-society-growing-participatory-and-deliberative-democracy/ http://pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk/2010/03/making-good-society-growing-participatory-and-deliberative-democracy/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:30:57 +0000 Veronique Jochum http://pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk/?p=513 The Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland, funded by Carnegie UK Trust,  has now published its final report ‘Making good society’. The Commission identifies four critical areas in which civil society activity is necessary to make good society:

  • Growing a more civil economy;
  • A rapid and just transition to a low carbon economy;
  • Democratising  media and content;
  • Growing participatory and deliberative democracy.

In chapter four of the report, the one relating to participatory and deliberative democracy, the Commission recommends the following:

  • Strengthening very local democracy with clear rights to set up neighbourhood councils with powers to raise finance and act.
  • Refashioning parliaments to allow for more dialogue and engagement, including rights of petition and rights for petititioners to take part in debates.
  • Reinforcing rights to dissent and reviewing the impact of serious crime and anti-terror legislation on civil society to reduce the risk of unintended harm to civil society domestically and globally.
  • Investing in deliberation skills. Individuals, civil society associations and public bodies need to help strengthen the skills of active listening, rational argument and effective deliberation.
  • Developing leaders from all backgrounds. More needs to be done to support those organisations that are effective at identifying and supporting emerging leaders who reflect the communities they serve.
  • Bridging difference. A related priority for funders is to support individuals or initiatives that are skilled at overcoming conflicts or mutual distrust.
  • Harnessing the potential of the Internet by using SMS, twitter and social networking sites as tools for mobilisation, education and direct action.
     
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