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De: "Michael Klein" [ Profil ]
Sujet: Consensus Building
Envoyé: Jul 13th, 2007 - 15:27:57
  While interning at the US State Department's International Organizations
Bureau for 4 months, I worked on building consensus to pass resolutions at
the United Nations. Involved in this process was the continual revision of
draft UN resolutions among various interested states. The process is
ongoing, but a few things can be learned:

- Setting deadlines is important because discussion can carry on forever if
no end is set in stone. Make sure to keep deadlines for decision-making so
that these deadlines become legitimate and are observed. Set these before
any negotiations take place.

- Start off learning and understanding each group's interest in an issue and
their perspectives. By doing this, other groups may find that they also see
the issue as such when perspective is given from another group. You can be
persuasive here in offering context for a point-of-view as other groups can
determine if it fits their interest as well.

- Identify "deal-breakers" which is something your group absolutely cannot
accept as a decision. This should be something so foundational to the
group's principles and beliefs that if the group were party to a decision
that contradicted these principles, it would jeopardize the legitimacy of
the group and threated to disillusion membership.

- Each group should be aggressive in their stance at first so that their
points are heard, but as the deadline approaches each group should contrive
strategies for compromise (i.e. what points and proposals the group will
give up first, second,.., lastly)

- As compromises continue, identify key themes in group targets and
perspectives: what can groups agree on? are ideas similar in nature? are
goals similar? are the means as important as the ends?

- Recognize that giving up some ground to other groups is not a threat to
your territory- your group can still offer unique participation despite the
outcome

These are some ideas I've both observed and concluded on consensus building.
I am sure there are more and I hope to hear about them from others.

Thanks,

Michael Klein


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