Resilience thinkers share an interest in collaborative deliberation with communicative planners, who aim to accommodate different forms of knowledge and styles of reasoning to promote social learning and yield creative and equitable agreements. Members of both fields attended a symposium at Virginia Tech in late 2008, where communicative planners considered how social–ecological resilience info...

This article departs from the assumption that leadership in Islamic boarding schools applies an authoritarian-paternalistic and laissez-faire model, making it less effective. used a descriptive analysis approach, this analyzes Abuya (leader) model at MTI Pasir Boarding School managing conflict. finds not leadership, but charismatic-democratic. When conflict occurs, with his charisma brings toge...

In the age of genomic medicine we can often now do the genetic testing that will permit more accurate personal tailoring of medications to obtain the best therapeutic results. This is certainly a medically and morally desirable result. However, in other areas of medicine pharmacogenomics is generating consequences that are much less ethically benign and much less amenable to a satisfactory ethi...

We consider settings where electric vehicle drivers participate in a market mechanism to charge their vehicles. Existing work typically assumes that participants are fully rational and can report their charging preferences accurately. However, this may not be reasonable in settings with non-experts. To explore this, we design a novel game called Bid2Charge and compare a fully expressive interfa...

The decisions voters make-and whether those decisions are rational-have profound implications on the functionality of a democratic society. In this study, we delineated two criteria in evaluating voter rationality and weigh evidence of voter rationality versus irrationality. Furthermore, we compared models in two different elections in Taiwan to explore the reasons behind the irrational choices...

We study the impact of deliberation on intertemporal choices. Using multiple experiments, including a field in Democratic Republic Congo, we show that introduction waiting periods—a policy temporally separates information about choices from themselves—causes substantially less myopic decisions. These results cannot be captured by models exponential discounting nor present bias. Comparing effect...

Acknowledgements The Nuclear Consultation Working Group would like to acknowledge the financial support given by The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust for the preparation of this report. The report is part of a wider initiative to facilitate and empower a more rational, accountable and democratic decision-making process concerning the environmental, health and societal risks associated with a po...