Introduction
This community communication paper defines meaning of Deliberative Dialogues and evaluates how it is being used in a community to achieve democracy. Deliberative Dialogue is one of the means of communication, which is used by the community with an aim of obtaining diverse experience and views of a problem, which the community is experiencing. It is mainly aimed to get a common ground of agreement from all participants through an open discussion which each participant provides their views.
The views presented are discussed and agreed upon to obtain the most viable and applicable findings which are shared among the participants and ensures that they are applied to solve a common problem which affects all those who belong to the community. The community members who are involved in the deliberation take into consideration of possible approach by ensuring that they take into consideration what concerns or appeals to all members of the community (Macfadyen and Stranieri, 78).
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They are as well concerned on understanding each of the approach that they would opt to follow by evaluating on its costs and tradeoffs which are involved and consequences which would be experienced if they adopt on either of the approaches.
The deliberations being done are not personal but communal. Hence, they represent the views of the community. Thus, they make them applicable to all the community members. Therefore, the deliberations which are done are mainly on concern for others and do not seek for differences but commonalities between the members of the community which is discussing. The concern of others makes it to be owned by many people and eliminates chances of personalizing issues in the discussion for it is meant to benefit every body. Hence, it unifies all the participants to a common agreement which strengthens co-existence of the community living together to be democratic.
When a community practice deliberative dialogue it seeks the strengths in each others positions in relation to the discussion or the problems which is affecting them. Therefore, each persons view is taken in to considerations with equal strength and none is considered superior I any way. The views represented by each members of the community is noted down not with an aim of comparing and measuring its strength or weakness in relation to other views presented but as an important participation which is accorded seriousness like any other participant in the discussion.
Deliberation cultivate the assumption that every body who belong to the community and provides their views it is regarded as a solution to the problems which they have been experiencing as a community. It also assumes that when many people deliberate on an issue they provide a solution to a common problem which they would be experiencing over a given period. Unlike in a debate which each person in its participation has an aim of championing their opinion by ensuring that their views are seen as superior among all those which are represented.
It is emphasized that in deliberations the participants have to temporarily suspend their belief to make sure that the views which are concluded after the deliberations has uniformity and represents a common wish of the community. Thus is not individualized, as it is in the case in a debate or a situation which citizens are polling. If the members would hold to their faith then each of them would invest whole heartedly in their views and try to make them more superior than those of other participants. Hence, the excise would then change to be competitive thus making it not meets its objective of not being competitive and its views are considered unique.
Deliberations are done with an aim of seeking a common understanding for all its participants. The members of the community collaborate with each other in an environment that makes people work together for a common goal. By obtaining a common goal it makes them to be more inclined to help each other in their operations and a problem of one of them is viewed as a problem of all those others in the community which they live in. The collaboration makes the process also to be democratic as each person is free to air their views and they are accorded seriousness with out any discrimination or favor (Cogburn).
The community members after deliberating and agreeing on a common goal they then participate together to perform/carry a common action which forms the basis of their consistency and a steady policy. The policy formulated is the guidance of how the community should behave in unison when they are addressing a common problem for a long tern period. But, when the community is subjected to polling they are mainly interested in winning for a short period with its achievement being short term and do not have a long lasting solution to the problems which are experienced in the community.
Deliberations emphasized on finding meaning in the agreement being arrived at and enable the members of the community which is deliberating to listen and understand what is being deliberated upon. Such understanding is important as it steer head democratization of the society which govern their operations. Unlike in a debate or polling which citizens would be attentive with their main aim being to find areas which are faulty in the law they have and disregard the once which they would find they are not helpful.
The community members are involved in re-evaluation which they participate in rethinking and evaluating their decision to ascertain that it is achieved with the spirit of encompassing all the views of the participants (Buchanan and O’Neill). Therefore, by deliberating it provides a good opportunity of obtaining solutions which are better. These solutions are the one which unifies the community in their duties of improving the societies in which they live in.
Conclusion
Democracy is achieved in deliberations as each participant has an equal chance of submitting their best thinking with an aim of improving the ideas together as a community. Such equality in provision of views and being given equal chance of deliberations promotes democracy as there isn’t any idea which is regarded superior to the other. Therefore democracy is connected to the concepts of deliberative dialogue because it promotes a common ground of presentation to every participant and the views obtained are agreed upon by all the community members.
Qualities of a string democracy are achieved by ensuring that all the community members have equal opportunity to provide their views. Secondly, the views provided are then considered to be unique and are accorded equal deliberations to achieve a common goal this is a rare opportunity if at all it would have been done through a debate or polling citizens.
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