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![Opening the black box: facilitation in a changing world](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicdeliberation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/V3-240621-ddd-collages-jun-2024-FACILITATION.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Opening the black box: facilitation in a changing world
Facilitation is central to many forms of deliberation, but has received surprisingly little attention in the study of deliberative democracy. Rosa Zubizarreta and Oliver Escobar came together to talk about why this might be the case, and why it is important to make the work of facilitation and facilitators visible in deliberation, and in democracy more widely.
![Opening the black box: facilitation in a changing world](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicdeliberation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/V3-240621-ddd-collages-jun-2024-FACILITATION.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Abriendo la caja negra: la facilitación en un mundo cambiante
La facilitación es fundamental en muchas formas de deliberación, pero ha recibido sorprendentemente poca atención en el estudio de la democracia deliberativa. Rosa Zubizarreta y Óliver Escobar se unieron para hablar sobre por qué podría ser este el caso, y por qué es importante visibilizar el trabajo de la facilitación y las/los facilitadoras/es en la deliberación, y en la democracia en general.
![Inclusive by default: strategies for more inclusive participation](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicdeliberation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/240529-ddd-collages-may-2024-INCLUSION-V3.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Inclusive by default: strategies for more inclusive participation
In theory, participatory processes offer a meaningful route for everyday people to have more power over decisions that affect their lives. In practice, participation faces challenges in ensuring that everybody is really included. In this article, global participation hub People Powered discuss barriers to participation and offer approaches to help make participation inclusive by default.
![Democracy and Artificial Intelligence: current practices and visions into the future](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicdeliberation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Article-43_image.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Democracy and Artificial Intelligence: current practices and visions into the future
What potential does artificial intelligence have for supporting deliberative democracy? In the second of this two-part series, Nardine Alnemr and Rob Weymouth are joined by software developer Brian Sullivan to think through what roles might be appropriate for AI in deliberative democracy, and what the implications are in practice. Read the first part of this series here.
![Democracy and Artificial Intelligence: old problems, new solutions?](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicdeliberation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Article-42_image.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Democracy and Artificial Intelligence: old problems, new solutions?
Does Artificial Intelligence hold the potential to remedy our contemporary democratic ills, or further foment them? In the first of this two-part series, Nardine Alnemr and Rob Weymouth discuss how the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and deliberative democracy is currently framed, and why this might be problematic.
![Introducing the Unheard: from exploitation and oppression to interconnection and regeneration?](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicdeliberation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/V3-B_240320_ddd-collages-mar-2024-UNHEARD-VOICES-1.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Introducing the Unheard: from exploitation and oppression to interconnection and regeneration?
The topics discussed during deliberative processes often impact the lives of people and nonhuman entities who are not present, and whose voices remain unheard. In the field of democratic innovations, interest is growing in experimenting with different practices to widen the scope of interests that are usually considered during a deliberative process.
![Inclusive topic selection: reflections on Mostar’s first citizens’ assembly](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicdeliberation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/240214-ddd-collages-feb-2024-MOSTAR.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Inclusive topic selection: reflections on Mostar’s first citizens’ assembly
The topic for deliberation in a citizens’ assembly is often predetermined. But in Mostar, this process was opened up to the city’s residents. In this conversation, two of the organisers of Mostar’s first assembly, Damir Kapidžić and Yves Dejaeghere, reflect on the implications and practicalities of opening up topic selection.
![Five lessons from the College of Guarantors of the French Citizens’ Convention on the End of Life](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicdeliberation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/240110-ddd-collages-jan-2024-ASSISTED-DYING-ASSEMBLY_B.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Five lessons from the College of Guarantors of the French Citizens’ Convention on the End of Life
The Guarantors of the French Citizens’ Convention on the End of Life had a unique level of access to the deliberation, its design and governance. In this article the guarantors share their insights on the micro deliberative details of the Convention and their wider implications, along with recommendations for future processes.
![Matching Facilitation Methods to Deliberative Purposes](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicdeliberation.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Image_1.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Matching Facilitation Methods to Deliberative Purposes
Imagine three groups of people deliberating the same question. All three groups were recruited the same way, they are deliberating in similar rooms, and they have the same materials available. Does it actually matter how the facilitation of these deliberative processes is carried out? Dirk von Schneidemesser, Dorota Stasiak and Daniel Oppold explain why it matters, and how different facilitation styles affect deliberation.
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Representation Reset
Felipe Rey reflects on his inspiration and motivations for writing his new book, The Representative System, and its implications for the field of democratic innovations.
![Understanding the policy impact of Citizens’ Assemblies: a dispatch from Gdansk](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicdeliberation.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/230921-ddd-collages-sep-2023.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Understanding the policy impact of Citizens’ Assemblies: a dispatch from Gdansk
Adela Gąsiorowska unpacks the impacts of Poland’s first Citizens’ Assemblies, arguing that despite the declarations of the city’s authorities and high level of implementation of their recommendations, the actual impact of these processes on public policies was limited.
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How representative is it really? A correspondence on sortition
Are proponents of sortition overclaiming? What claims to representativeness can we really make about deliberative mini-publics? This correspondence unpicks some of the key claims and proposes ways forward for representation claims in deliberative practice.
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To realise deliberative democracy’s promise, we need to go beyond inclusion
This conversation unpacks the difference between equity and inclusion and how deliberative mini-publics and various forms of public engagement can truly support meaningful and equitable inclusion of diverse voices in policymaking and beyond.
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