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Last minutes to vote if you want to support this sustainable initiative, combining high level ADR expertise; support to communities affected by infrastructure projects and protection of the environment! Kindly use this form to vote: https://lnkd.in/emS4-WxX 🔔 🔔 📯 📣 🥁 🔊 I am delighted to announce that the CARO Conflict Management Committee Rules have been shortlisted for the Global Arbitration Review Awards 2024, in the “Best Innovation” category ! Our Rules can be found on the CARO website: https://lnkd.in/eqJMk9gM We are very proud of this recognition, and encourage you to vote for our Rules, which create a more inclusive and sustainable framework of dispute management in the context of infrastructure projects. Why is our approach groundbreaking ? ➡ Because with our Rules, and for the first time, the “disputes” handled by a Dispute Board are no longer restricted to disputes of a technical and/or commercial nature.  ➡ The disputes involving workers on site and impacted communities, who are often the first victims of a project’s collateral damages, are also included into the mission of third party-neutrals working on the ground. The inclusion of all concerned and affected stakeholders is indeed often vital, as the absence of stakeholder engagement has brought more than a few investment projects to sudden and expensive halts, as demonstrated recently in Panama and Guatemala. As stressed by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations:   “the extraction of critical minerals for the clean energy revolution – from wind farms to solar panels and battery manufacturing – must be done in a sustainable, fair and just way”. We believe that the CMC Rules are the right tool to address this pressing concern. We are grateful for all the support received so far and we stand ready to answer any enquiry on the CMC Rules. Thanks again Wolf von Kumberg, Elise Groulx Diggs Eve Tessera and Mark Appel, you make dreams come true… #adr #indigenousrights #sustainability #sustainablebusiness #ohadac #renewableenergy #energyinfrastructure #energyrevolution #innovation

Great to see the new CMC Rules getting so much attention this quickly. They are indeed a new way of looking at conflict management boards that include a community aspect. It is the missing piece in dispute board rules and will provide a more balanced conflict management tool for energy transition.

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#FeministGovernance #InPractice We are excited to announce the election of the new co-chairs of the FAIR SHARE Advisory Council!🎉 Åsa Månsson and Maya Tamayo, were elected by their fellow members in May. We are grateful for their commitment! The #FairShareAdvisoryCouncil, guided by #FeministGovernance principles, focuses on collective decision-making, managing disagreements, and fostering shared ownership of FAIR SHARE's future and strategy. We will share more about Åsa & Maya in the next days, but you can already learn more in our full blog post: https://bit.ly/3LjjQTS

Crowd pleaser In 1906 Francis Galton, a polymath, went to a county fair. At the fair, the public were invited to guess the weight of an ox. While individual guesses varied widely, the average of all guesses was remarkably close to the weight of the ox. Galton termed it the "wisdom of crowds". In his snappily titled 2004 book "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations", James Surowiecki expanded the concept. He argued that under the right conditions, large groups of diverse individuals are collectively smarter than the smartest individuals within them. He identified four necessary conditions. The first is diversity of opinion. Individuals should have access to different pieces of information or perspectives. The second requirement is people's opinions should not be influenced by the opinions of others. Then comes decentralisation: no central authority should determine the group's decision. The final condition is aggregation – a mechanism is needed to aggregate individual opinions into a collective decision. Surprisingly perhaps those condition apply with regularity in several areas. For instance, prediction markets (where participants trade contracts based on predictions about future events) have been remarkably accurate in forecasting election outcomes, stock prices and even Oscar winners. Wikipedia relies on the collective knowledge and contributions of volunteers worldwide to create and maintain its vast repository of mostly accurate information. In democracies the wisdom of crowds plays its role too, serving as a check and balance on power. Through elections, referendums and opinion polls, the collective view of the electorate informs policymaking and holds leaders accountable. By aggregating diverse perspectives and preferences, democratic processes aim to reflect the will of the majority while safeguarding minority rights. However, social media are increasingly a threat to the wisdom of crowds. They amplify echo chambers, spread misinformation and foster extremism. Too often they are used to undermine the reliability of collective intelligence, impugning the integrity of informed decision-making and governance. And when a former US President and a former British Prime Minister talk of dark forces and the deep state aligned against them, then our need for the wisdom of crowds is greater than ever.

Anybody in my network an expert in running tabletop, scenario planning exercises for complex organizations or systems? Quick reason why: Ezra Klein wrote about his desire for an open convention to pick the next Democratic nominee. He also interviewed an expert on conventions to talk about how they'd go. But my sense is there's a lot of context that matters here that isn't included in his thinking, which includes some things he seems easily persuaded don't matter much (for example, will voters feel that open conventions - which we haven't really had since the '68 convention and the move to commit delegates using primaries which was essentially complete by 1970 - are small-d democratic?), and also some things he hasn't yet addressed at all like: * How does the fact of a noncompetitive primary for the opposing party affect how voters interact with/feel about an open convention? How would an opposing party not engaging in such an exercise use this difference to its advantage? * If delegate nominating conventions at state and county levels become more important, what happens if more grassroots organizations run for delegates, softening the influence and power of people with close party ties? * What does it look like if social media "coverage" of the convention looks more like, say, the Amber Heard v Johnny Depp trial? By that I mean, what if bad faith takes, rumor-mongering, selective edits and meme-ification of candid moments swamp sober coverage and influence people's level of trust in the system? * What role would polls have in either influencing delegates to a convention or in trying to predict the convention outcome? * What would it look like for people to engage with the convention in bad faith? Could be delegates, party officials, protestors, media, others? Other questions are more obvious, like the questions of timing (what if this were announced before Super Tuesday? After? June?); candidate quality and quantity (what if it's only 2 contestants? what if it's 10? what if celebrities, billionaires and conspiracy theorists make a run at it?); and what are the possible media narratives ("Democrats in disarray"? something-something "historic"?) I'd love to talk to someone who knows something about running these kinds of scenarios and what a sober approach to it would look like. Again - not looking for anyone to make a prediction, but to talk to me about the real work of strategy and scenario planning here. Thanks!!

Steve sums up the QOP perfectly. GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel demands the QOP primary be stopped after two states-and they accuse the Democrats of election interference? They would rather kiss the boots of their orange demagogue and disenfranchise millions of their own supporters, than support our democratic processes. Why? Because they know as the primary season goes on and Trump spews more hatred on the campaign trail, he will alienate more and more voters. MTG uses the word "eradicate" when speaking about members of her own party. Steve succinctly describes the meaning of this word with horrific visual images. The thing that needs eradication in our country is fascism and the fascist members of the former GOP, now known as the New American Fascist Party. We eradicate them at the polling booth, not literally, obviously. Space Laser Klan Marm Greene then states that she supports (and others in the QOP) Trump's "policies." Policies of retribution, dictatorship, voter suppression, attacking the media, weaponization by the government against his perceived political enemies-I guess all those trips to Russia helped form his "policies." And this is what that dingbat and other feckless members of the GOP support-the end of Democracy. We CANNOT allow them to succeed. In this day and age of corporate greed constantly beating down the average American, it fosters a feeling of political apathy among many. We cannot lay down and watch Democracy wither and die under GOP oppression. We have to get the vote out. Volunteer in any way you can, stuff envelopes, get involved in a writing campaign, drive voters to the polling booth-whatever you can do to help defeat the insanity of the republican party. The biggest thing you can do to defeat this horrific fascist movement and the convicted orange rapist is by VOTING BLUE IN EACH AND EVERY ELECTION! "When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving the cross." ~Sinclair Lewis Does that quote sound familiar...remember Trump hugging the flag? Do you remember him holding the bible upside down and backwards outside the church in Lafayette Square? I'm sure you've seen the American Taliban in their beat up pickup trucks with the Trump flags and other flags dangling from the truck bed...this is today's republican party-or more aptly-The New American Fascist Party. VOTE BLUE!!!!