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Argumentative community meetings

Name(s):

Unresolved local popular polarization

Nature

Community progress and full local involvement in decision-making seems often to be stifled by argumentative community meetings. Where there are no mechanisms by which the community can resolve inter-personal and inter-group tensions creatively, these disconnected forms of engagement very often prevent people from coming together as one community.

Broader

Communication breakdown

Unprofitable local politics

Polarization of local conflicts

Narrower

Divisive school districts

Aggravates

Disrupted community events

Polarized protest against problems

Reluctance to join in community action ^{[in 7 loops]}

Aggravated by

Sectarianism

Interpersonal rivalry

Inadequate meeting methods

Deficient communal mandate

Unwillingness to resolve problems

Unethical practices in communication

Breakdown of local community cohesion

Ineffective techniques for achieving consensus

Lack of participation in attempting to solve intergroup conflicts

Polarization of local conflicts

Strategy(ies)

Instituting community consensus meetings

Resolving local conflicts

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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