The Institute originated from a series
of experiments in consensus:
1986, the New Ireland Group’s
‘People’s Conventions’.
1991, the New Ireland Group’s ‘The
Other Talks’.
1993, the Green Party’s ‘Power-sharing
Conference’.
1995, Fortnight Educational Trust’s
‘Where Lies the Compromise?’ and
1996, the ‘Citizens’ Assembly’.
All of the above public meetings involved
the participation of both members of the Official/Ulster Unionist
Party and representatives of Sinn Féin as well as members
of many other parties, of course. And since 1991, all of these
experiments have involved the use of programmed multi-option
voting systems, computer plus screen and data projector, initially
for displaying an up-dated summary of the debate, and later
to show the voters' profile and then the results of the vote.
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Online Consensus
OurKingdom, the new economics foundation and the de Borda Institute recently gave interested parties from think tanks, research groups and campaigning organisations, and members of the general public, the opportunity to participate in an online trial of consensus decision making.
The de Borda Institute and nef (the new economics foundation) have received a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to test the potential of consensus voting More...
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