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Exploring Active Democracies
Lena Langlet and Anders Nordh, SALAR, Swedish Association of Local
Authorities and Regions Martin Sande, Dialogues
Citizen dialogue a mission from SALAR:s congress 2015
”SALAR supports its members in the work to develop dialogue and co-creation with citizens and to integrate the results in
governance processes and organizational development.
Enabling both a sustainable democracy and a socially sustainable society”
Since 2007 SALAR invites local authorities, county councils and regions to participate in:
• Networks to improve knowledge
• Networks to develop and test methodsfor dialogue and meet complex challenges
Our approach
We work … …from the position of supporting of politicians and civil servants
in regions and municipalities of Sweden. They have formal power over resources, community planning and policy making.
…. to support and develop our representative democracy through dialogue, co-creation and prototyping.
… partly from direct funding from the Government to address complex issues
… from “the whole system view” hence politicians and civil servants are part of “the problems” addressed.
… by consciously activating conflict in complex issues. Actively seeking the “NO” voices. Requiring a neutral facilitation in order create safety “sitting in the fire”.
We see a risk of “Swedish values” being hi-jacked by right wing politics.
We pride ourselves with a high turn out
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95Development of citizeins voting 1970-2014 (percent)
Kommunvalen Landstingsvalen Riksdagsvalen
KommunDistrikt med högst valdeltagande
Distrikt med lägst valdeltagande
Differens 2014
Differens 2010
Göteborg 92,6 37,4 55,2 48,1Stockholm 94,8 40,8 54,0 58,1Malmö 93,4 39,7 53,7 49Botkyrka 90,9 42,3 48,6 43,6Huddinge 91,9 46,1 45,8 42,7Haninge 89,8 44,6 45,2 41,2Södertälje 86,8 42,5 44,3 36,2Borås 92,5 50,5 42,0 38,2Halmstad 93,5 52,2 41,3 31,8Sollentuna 91,1 52,6 38,5 33,7
But…
4%
1%
95%
”Votes for sale”1. Every fifth young Swede between 18 and 29
would be willing to sell their vote for a smaller amount of money.
2. One in four young Swedish do not think it is so important that they live in a democracy but think it would be good, or very good, if Sweden was ruled by a "strong leader who does not need to bother with parliament and elections.”
3. Nearly 15 percent of young people think it would be good, or very good, if Sweden was ruled by the military.
NVA Sweden 2016
13• Violence and crime• Conflict / aggression• Diversity
How high is your level of trust in the way the following political institutions manage their work?
… the complexity of todays societal challenges require a transformed and co-creation based power structure in order to be handled in a socially sustainable way….
Hans Abrahamsson, Göteborgs Universitet16
We are falling apart when we need to learn to live side by side
Dialogues are shifting focus
Physical issues
RelationsValues
A framework and mindset!
Arrogance Intimacy
Co-creation
Control
A framework and mindset!
Arrogance Intimacy
Co-creation
Control
We are the elected officials. We have the power and we
decide
Manipulation “Make it look good. but it’s
a facade
We invite and have dialogues, on our
premises
We work together. We share power,
and responsibility.
A necessary shift?!
Arrogance Intimacy
Co-creation
Control
We are the elected officials. We have the power and we
decide
Manipulation “Make it look good. but it’s
a facade
We invite and have dialogues, on our
premises
We work together. We share power,
and responsibility.
Lack of trustCom
plex
ity
A framework and mindset!
Arrogance Intimacy
Co-creation
Control
We are the elected officials. We have the power and we
decide
Manipulation “Make it look good. but it’s
a facade
We invite and have dialogues, on our
premises
We work together. We share power,
and responsibility.
Here we are working : Dialogue, co-creating, prototyping and learning
Model for dialogue on complex issues
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3:Dialogue, experimen-
tation and co-creation
Iterations: learning by doing and trying
=steps that dialogue with citizens has direct influence over
Capacity development to manage complex issues dialogue based
1:Prepara-tions
4:Proposals, measures and commitments
5: Decisions 6:Implemen-tation
2:Perspec-tive
collection
Our dialogues are going deeper and beyond – shifting towards to intimacy and co-creation
Sitting around the fire – happy ending dialogues. Gathering and sharing views. Conflicting perspectives are avoided
Sitting in the fire – working from through friction and conflict between perspectives in order to reach wisdom, release potential and enable innovationWisdom, potential, innovation
Thank you!
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Join us in the workshop after lunch to co-create and learn together
Workshop… Together explore how values can
unite communities integrating large migrant populations – a really complex issue we are working with
Assumption: Living side by side (inclusion) requires a resilient ability to enter conflict and friction constructively- What are your experiences that
we can learn from?- Dialogues going deeper and
beyond – what have we learned?!- What are your experiences from
working with conflicting values?