Palaver and consensus frame deliberation as making conflict speakable and allowing competing interests to shape decisions through reasoning and accommodation. These metaphors preserve agreement, workable settlement, and unresolved dissent as distinct outcomes, without replacing lawful decision rules or treating apparent unanimity as proof of justice.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Doctrines, Principles & Normative Frameworks
Sets out principles or criteria for what should be pursued, considered legitimate or done. Its contribution is evaluative or prescriptive: it gives reasons for judging conduct and arrangements, rather than merely describing their frequency.