File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9805, message 33


Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 17:23:57 -0500
From: Linda Corbin-Pardee <lcpardee-AT-csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: Replacing Robert's Rules


Kirstin Bratt wrote:

> Dear List members:
>
> I'm looking for a written document that would describe a consensus
> system
> of decision-making.  I'm trying to replace parliamentary procedure in
> a
> committee I'm chairing next year.  I seem to remember a document that
> described the Iroquois Nation's system of governing, but I can't
> remember
> the source information.  Any written document that would help me to
> build a
> case for using consensus rather than majority rule in a committee
> would be
> most appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance--
> Kirstin
>

There's a book that was written by someone who did
participant-observation among the Quakers that talks about this.... my
mind is blank at the moment. Quaker meetings work on the consensus
system... true consensus... if one person objects, the decision will not
move forward. I will search out the book and pass on the information for
you.

Linda Corbin-Pardee



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