Understanding the Global Community in the 21st Century

Method to integrate asynchronously produced individual influence maps into an extrapolated population influence map following the face‐to‐face stage of a structured democratic dialogue

“…Over the past few decades, quite a few publications describe and discuss the process and its scientific grounding and report hundreds of applications (e.g. Bausch & Flanagan, 2013; Christakis, 2004; Christakis & Bausch, 2006; Christakis & Harris, 2004; Christakis et al, 1999; Cisneros & Hisijara, 2013; Flanagan, 2020; Flanagan & Christakis, 2009; Hays & Michaelides, 2004; Laouris, 2012; Schreibman & Christakis, 2007). The authors' group alone has applied the SDD process in more than 100 different contexts, 1 including peace and conflict resolution (Laouris, 2004; Laouris, Michaelides, et al, 2009; Laouris, Erel, et al, 2009; Laouris et al, 2015); discovering and collectively agreeing on research agenda priorities, thus influencing European Commission funding (Laouris & Michaelides, 2007; Laouris et al, 2011, 2017; CARDIAC 2 ); capacity building of youth and civil society 3,4 ; reforming and bridging gaps in education and democracy (Laouris, 2015; Laouris & Laouri, 2008; Laouris & Romm, 2022; Laouris et al, 2010); and response to the COVID‐19 outbreak in Africa (Laouris et al, 2022).…”