A journey from learning to deliberation and decision making

An insight into Weekend 2 of the Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland Kaela Scott As 75 members of the Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland converged on the Europa Hotel on Friday 16 November for their second weekend, there was a real buzz in the room – members...

Guest Post: When Citizens Assemble

by David McBurney I had read about Assemblies in Ireland, Canada and the Netherlands that had successfully placed the citizen at the heart of decision-making, so I was excited to see how an exercise in deliberative democracy closer to home would work in practice. The...