Examples of Washington Consensus in the following topics:
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- This view has been labelled as the Washington Consensus.
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- Congressional leaders convened the Washington Peace Conference in an effort to prevent the rest of the Southern states from seceding.
- The ensuing Washington Peace Conference of 1861 was the final cumulative effort by the individual states to resolve the crisis.
- Successive attempts to modify these proposals also failed to achieve a consensus.
- With the adjournment of Congress, the inauguration of Lincoln as president, and the flood of new Republican leaders to power in Washington, Democrats in Congress could no longer work towards a sectional compromise.
- Instead, Washington and the United States looked to president-elect Lincoln for action against disunion.
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- Making decisions by consensus is not necessarily ideal or even desirable.
- Another way to think about consensus is as the absence of objections.
- One approach to consensus building is the Quaker model.
- Another formal technique for consensus building comes from the consensus-oriented decision-making (CODM) model.
- Define consensus and the varying ways in which it can be achieved in a group dynamic
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- Political variants of participatory democracy include consensus democracy, deliberative democracy, demarchy, and grassroots democracy.
- It adopts elements of both consensus decision making and majority rule.
- The Occupy Wall Street General Assembly meets in Washington Square Park for the first time on Saturday, October 8.
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- The details of how these systems work vary widely, but there are two common elements: one, the group works by consensus most of the time; two, there is a formal voting mechanism to fall back on when consensus cannot be reached.
- Consensus simply means an agreement that everyone is willing to live with.
- It is not an ambiguous state: a group has reached consensus on a given question when someone proposes that consensus has been reached and no one contradicts the assertion.
- The person proposing consensus should, of course, state specifically what the consensus is, and what actions would be taken in consequence of it, if those are not obvious.
- For small, uncontroversial decisions, the proposal of consensus is implicit.
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- Their efforts helped unravel the national consensus and laid bare a far more fragmented society.
- During the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (a), a huge crowd gathered on the National Mall (b) to hear the speakers.
- Although thousands attended, many of the march’s organizers had hoped that enough people would come to Washington to shut down the city.
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- A social worker with Child Welfare Services for the State of Washington once showed me how to write agendas which map out meetings in crisp detail.
- Seek consensus.
- A two-year college in Washington State has used this template for keeping minutes of committee meetings for at least the last five years:
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- The consensus was that information is easier to transfer to long-term memory when it can be related to other memories or information the person is familiar with.
- Suppose you have to remember the first four presidents of the United States: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison.
- Associate the first president, Washington, with the first room (the living room).
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- Although Howe was successful in driving Washington out of New York City, he was unsuccessful in taking New Jersey.
- Four days later, Fort Lee, across the Hudson River from Fort Washington, was also taken.
- He reassembled an army of more than 6,000 men, and marched most of them against a position Washington had taken south of Trenton.
- Washington sent troops and reinforcement to Princeton, successfully driving the British from the city.
- Washington entered winter quarters at Morristown, having retaken most of the state from the British.