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=== Other resources ===
=== Other resources ===
*The Extinction Rebellion Guide to Citizens' Assemblies [https://rebellion.earth/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/The-Extinction-Rebellion-Guide-to-Citizens-Assemblies-Version-1.1-25-June-2019.pdf]
*The Extinction Rebellion Guide to Citizens' Assemblies [https://rebellion.earth/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/The-Extinction-Rebellion-Guide-to-Citizens-Assemblies-Version-1.1-25-June-2019.pdf]
*Basic Standards for Organising Citizens’ Assemblies, May 22, 2019 [https://rebellion.earth/2019/05/22/basic-standards-for-organising-citizens-assemblies/ Extinction Rebellion]


=== Video ===
=== Video ===

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Template:Photowantedsca A citizens' assembly is a body formed from the citizens of a state, or locality to deliberate on an issue or issues of national importance. The membership of a citizens' assembly is randomly selected, as in other forms of sortition.

The purpose is to employ a cross-section of the public to study the options available to the state on certain questions and to propose answers to these questions through rational and reasoned discussion and the use of various methods of inquiry such as directly questioning experts. In many cases, the state will require these proposals to be accepted by the general public through a referendum before becoming law.

The citizens’ assembly aims to reinstall trust in the political process by taking direct ownership of decision-making. To that end, citizens' assemblies intend to remedy the "divergence of interests" that arises between elected representatives and the electorate, as well as "a lack in deliberation in legislatures." W

Resources

How to's

  • Climate Assemblies, Democracy in action. Includes guides to help start a climate assembly on a local level.

Other resources

  • The Extinction Rebellion Guide to Citizens' Assemblies [1]
  • Basic Standards for Organising Citizens’ Assemblies, May 22, 2019 Extinction Rebellion

Video

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News and comment

2019

Sep 14 How do we discover what matters most to people to help them thrive? noelito [1]

See also

Interwiki links

Citizens' assembly W includes sections on disadvantages as well as advantages.

Participatory democracy W

Deliberative democracy W


References

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