Wakeford, Tom

This paper gives account of a do-it-yourself citizensÆ jury (DIY CJ) where a group of researchers and a ôjuryö picked at random from the local population of Blackburn and Darwen, Lancashire, undertook a series of deliberative workshops during April and May 2004. The subject of this DIY CJ was the role of the police and drink and drug use among young people, a topic which was chosen by the jury itself at the first of these workshops.

This article comments on the e-forum on participatory processes for policy change concerning the Deliberative and Inclusionary Processes which grew out of a citizen jury and scenario workshop in southern India. The process drew on participatory action research to allow for scrutiny and critical analysis, and resulted in producing new knowledge and the possibility of transformative action through research.

This chapter presents an introduction to Prajateerpu - a citizens' jury/scenario workshop on food and farming in Andhra Pradesh, India. It was a six-day exercise in deliberative democracy involving marginal-livelihood citizens from three regions of the state, which took place in 2001. Prajateerpu was devised as a means of allowing those people most affected by the government's Vision 2020 for food and farming to shape a vision of their own.

To date there have been few attempts at independent evaluations of Deliberative and Inclusive processes (DIPs). Therefore, the author suggests in this two-page article some experimental evaluation criteria. Each criteria is given a brief description and come under the following headings; diverse control; framing and scope; interactivity and interrogation; reference timeframe; transparency and empowerment and/or advocacy. A number of DIPs have been analyzed and according to the criteria, might be named as giving the best or the worst performance.

This article examines a Farmer Foresight project that took place on a farm in Karnataka, India. The project was based on the Citizen Foresight methodology developed in the UK. The climax of the project was a citizens' jury, made up of 14 small and marginal farmers, together with expert witnesses and the topic concerned was on the possible future role of biotechnology in farming. The article discusses the lessons learnt from this experimental project and identifies difficulties that arose, which could hinder the success of such projects.

This short article details some of the methods used in deliberative and inclusionary processes (DIPs), which so far have been undertaken almost exclusively in the North. These methods have been used in areas that involve a policy, scientific or technical component. A selection of DIPs are given; Focus Groups; Deliberative Focus Groups, Consensus Conference/Panel, Citizens' Jury/Panel; Scenario Workshop/ Citizen Foresight. Diagrams are drawn which display the varying balance of control between stakeholders.

This article gives an overview of deliberative democracy and citizen empowerment. It describes the reasons for the recent interest in Deliberative and Inclusionary Processes (DIPs). These are given as; political changes; a lack of trust in professional expertise and science; high levels of uncertainty and complexity (e.g. in the realm of the environment and technology) that are an integral part of living in a modern world and the notions of human rights, social justice and empowerment.

This book is concerned with a participatory process related to the Vision 2020 programme in Andhra Pradesh (AP) in India. Prajateerpu - the citizens jury on food and farming futures in AP - was a six-day exercise in deliberative democracy involving marginal livelihood citizens from all three regions of the state. It took place at the Government of India's Farmer Liaison Centre in the summer of 2001.

Citizen Juries offer an innovative way of giving the poor and marginalised an opportunity to participate in decision making. Initiated by ActionAid, the first in a series of citizens' juries was held in Karnataka, India, with the aim of bringing the perspectives of the developing world's farmers to national and global debates about genetically modified (GM) crops. The jury was made up of 14 small farmers, representative of a region of poor and marginalised people likely to be directly affected by the introduction of GM crops.