CSPO Events

April 18, 2024 9:00am—April 20, 2024

Citizens’ Assembly School

Citizens’ Assemblies are innovative forums where a randomly selected group of people comes together to learn, deliberate, and make recommendations on complex policy issues. These assemblies reflect the broader community, ensuring that all voices, especially those often underrepresented, are heard. It’s democracy in action, where participants are empowered to critically engage with evidence, discuss different viewpoints, and collaboratively propose solutions.

In this program you will learn indispensable skills and knowledge to conduct successful deliberative processes. Train from local and international experts to start driving democratic innovation!

Zakia Elvang

Executive Director, We Do Democracy

Sessions:

  • The secret sauce of citizens’ assemblies: deliberative facilitation

  • Deliberative Facilitation

 

Yves Dejaeghere

Executive Director, FIDE – Europe

Session:

  • Youth/Student Assemblies : Deep Division and Polarization – Lessons from Mostar

 

 

Sarah Yaffe

Director, MASS LBP

Sessions:

  • An Overview of Citizens’ Assemblies in North America: Regulatory Assemblies and Digital Assemblies
  • Youth/Student Assemblies

 

 

Philip Lindsay

Democracy Innovation Program Manager, The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities

Session:

  • CUNY Assembly Process: how to build and leverage CA ecosystems

 

 

 

Peter MacLeod

President and Founder, MASS LBP

Session:

  • Landing with the Administration – how to build in follow-up and ensure government accountability

 

 

 

Marjan Ehsassi

Executive Director, FIDE – North America

Welcome remarks.

 

 

 

 

Linn Davis

Program Co-Director at Healthy Democracy

Sessions:

  • Democratic lottery, recruitment, and inclusion
  • An Overview of Citizens’ Assemblies in North America: Petaluma Fairgrounds Advisory Panel

 

 

Laura Wood

Vice President, Local Policy Lab

Session:

  • The Local Policy Lab’s Democracy Plan

 

 

Jonathan Moskovic

Innovations Advisor to the Brussels Parliament

Session:

  •  Citizens’ Assemblies – Perspectives from around the world: Brussels and Mixed Deliberative Committees – Solving Public Problems with Elected Representatives

 

 

Jacob Birkenhäger

Head of Business Unit, IFOK

Session:

  • Citizens’ Assemblies – Perspectives from around the world: The German Deliberative Experience and Social Cohesion

 

 

Ian Walker

Executive Director, newDemocracy

Session:

  • The most important question – How to frame a remit for impact

 

 

Hollie Russon Gilman

Senior Fellow, New America

Session:

  • Moderator – An Overview of Citizens’ Assemblies in North America

 

 

 

Forrest Sparks

The Assembly Project

Sessions:

  • CUNY Assembly Process: how to build and leverage CA ecosystems

 

 

Christine Lopes Metcalfe

Program Director, Local Policy Lab

Sessions:

  • Citizens’ Assemblies – Perspectives from around the world, Moderator

 

 

Art O’Leary

Chief Executive of Ireland’s Electoral Commission

Session:

  • Solving intractable problems: learnings from Ireland’s experience in building a robust deliberative culture

 

 

Amanda Borth

Associate Researcher, Consortium for Science Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University

Session:

  • Democracy & Science: Integrating Community and Stakeholder Values into Deliberation Design

 

Arthur Daemmrich

Director, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes and Local Policy Lab

Welcome remarks.

 

 

 

 

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