A consensus conference enables prepared citizens to question expertise and formulate their own recommendations on complex public issues. It produces deliberative reasoning, not population polling. Credibility depends on recruitment, balanced information, citizen ownership, treatment of disagreement, and an identifiable recipient for the resulting report.
- FamilyTool
- CategoryGovernance Institutions & Procedures
- DomainMedia, Publics & Society
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Governance Institutions & Procedures
Organizes authority, representation, participation, deliberation, collective decision or institutional resolution of conflict. Its contribution concerns who may act, speak, decide or challenge, and under what arrangements.