Diversity and constructive conflict in stakeholder dialogue: considerations for design and methods

Cuppen, Eefje

doi:10.1007/s11077-011-9141-7

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“…The ISUSS approach, as with other participatory methods, also depends on several other factors such as group dynamics, and the knowledge base of the participants on the topic. Having a group with contrasting norms, values and competing knowledge together with a constructive conflict among the group can improve understanding of a situation with new insights [88]. However, we found that the participants in the ISUSS workshop were partly like-minded.…”

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confidence: 70%

Interactive Knowledge Co-Production and Integration for Healthy Urban Development

Shrestha

Köckler²,

Flacke

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The transformation of cities towards healthy urban living environments for all is a challenge that needs to be addressed through collaboration of all relevant sectors in a transdisciplinary research processes. This paper reports on the design and showcase implementation of a methodological approach, named Interactive Spatial Understanding Support System (ISUSS), that is intended to support interactive knowledge co-production and integration among practitioners and researcher in a specific local context. The approach involves the combined use of interactive maps on a MapTable and a rich picture. The goal is to stimulate, articulate and map stakeholders' knowledge on environmental health issues to come to a shared problem understanding. Drawing on the rich seam of data gathered over the reflexive engagement with the participants in Dortmund, Germany, we explored incidences of a transdisciplinary process. Findings suggest that the approach has the potential to encourage communication and social learning geared towards a shared understanding of the holistic problem situation. Whilst locally embedded spatial knowledge was shared using interactive maps on the MapTable, the rich picture elicited issues linked to wider geographical scale as well as non-spatial drivers. The paper concludes discussing research needs to further explore the approach among various other groups, including citizens.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 70%

Interactive Knowledge Co-Production and Integration for Healthy Urban Development

Shrestha

Köckler²,

Flacke

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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“…One of the most systematic elaborations of this method is Constructive Conflict Methodology (Cuppen 2012). Other methods rely more on building group consensus, like Analysis for Interconnected Decision Areas (AIDA, Friend and Hickling 1987, 109-173), and Morphological Analysis (Ritchey 2011).…”

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Rules-of-thumb for problem-structuring policy design

Hoppe

2018

Policy Design and Practice

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This article provides practitioners with rules-of-thumb for policy design as both problem finding and problem solving. From their perspective, policy design is an inevitable moving back and forth between thinking out ("puzzling") and fighting over policy ("powering"). It is, simultaneously, problem-structuring: "wicked" or unstructured problems are translated from problems as "messes" of undesirable situations to problems as specific, timeand-space bound opportunities for improvement. This article decomposes problem-structuring as an iterative process of problem sensing, problem categorization, problem decomposition and problem definition. For each of these problem-structuring functions, appropriate rules-of-thumb can be suggested that induce thought habits and styles for responsive and solid policy designs. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…We suggest that communication events, as well as interaction between stakeholders and policymakers on defining adaptation priorities should start by investigating the underlying perspectives of the participants. This would provide a firm ground on which constructive conflict methodologies can be used, given the differences in perspectives (Cuppen 2012). Repertory grid analysis proved useful in this, since it facilitated bottom-up elicitation of these perspectives.…”

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Adaptation to extreme weather: identifying different societal perspectives in the Netherlands

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The intensity and occurrence of extreme weather events are expected to change with climate change. This change necessitates adaptive responses to extreme events, which need to take into account different societal perspectives, in order to be robust. In this paper, we explore the perspectives of different social actors in the Netherlands with respect to extreme weather events and ways to adapt to these events. The paper reports on a set of 41 interviews, using the repertory grid technique. The results were analyzed, to identify (a) the perspectives that stakeholders hold as most important for adaptation to extreme weather events; (b) the determinants of differences in perspectives. We find six different perspectives, all of which prioritize different adaptive actions. Producing robust adaptive responses which include different perspectives is therefore not a straightforward matter and is likely to result in win-lose situations. Further, differences in perspectives were not closely related to different sectors the interviewees belonged to. Thus, the traditional approach of involving different sectors to discuss and produce adaptation measures may be too limiting and needs to be supplemented to involving actors with different perspectives. The level of concern and level of information influenced the ways interviewees perceive adaptation priorities for extreme weather events. Participation in information events does not always result in perceived need to prepare for extreme events, something that adaptation communication needs to take into account.

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Diversity and constructive conflict in stakeholder dialogue: considerations for design and methods

Cited by 171 publications

References 104 publications

Interactive Knowledge Co-Production and Integration for Healthy Urban Development

Interactive Knowledge Co-Production and Integration for Healthy Urban Development

Rules-of-thumb for problem-structuring policy design

Adaptation to extreme weather: identifying different societal perspectives in the Netherlands

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