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🗨️Communicating Deliberation: Strategies for Different Information Landscapes

The impact and legitimacy of deliberative assemblies depend partly on whether the public knows about them at all. Communicating these processes requires a clear strategy and dedicated staff.

🔍In this webinar, communication professionals share their experiences.

Speakers:
▪️Lucile Duclaux, Project Lead in Communications, CESE, France

▪️Rosalind Grisnigt Communications Lead, Netherlands' Citizens' Assembly on Climate

👉Register: https://shorturl.at/26DTS
📅March 27th, Friday 2pm (CET)

Introduction and Moderation:

Dr. Angela Jain, Senior Project Manager, Bertelsmann Stiftung
@Yves Dejaeghere, Executive Director, FIDE - Europe

The event is organised in the framework of the Network on Citizen Participation and Deliberation with Democracy and Social Cohesion.

#DeliberativeDemocracy #CitizenParticipation #CitizensAssemblies #DemocraticInnovation #PublicEngagement #StrategicCommunication

Vladyslav Mar 2

Secretary Hegseth made a confusing statement today: "You can't have a nuclear bomb… we precisely took it away. And then even after that, they didn't have that. They didn't come to the table with a willingness to give it away."

The logical inconsistency is striking. If a nuclear capability was "precisely taken away," then it no longer exists to be given away at a negotiating table. This kind of rhetorical confusion around nuclear weapons—where clarity is paramount—creates unnecessary ambiguity about strategic realities and policy objectives.

#StrategicCommunication #NuclearPolicy #Hegseth

Baaghi TV Feb 14

Perception, Governance and Peace: The New Framework for Balochistan

#Balochistan #Pakistan #NationalSecurity #CivicEngagement #StrategicCommunication

https://en.baaghitv.com/perception-governance-and-peace-the-new-framework-for-balochistan

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rhetoric Feb 6

One proven tactic: share background context before asking for a decision. If you explain industry shifts before proposing a budget change, people grasp the “why” faster.

#CriticalThinking #DecisionMaking #Logic #Influence #Communication #StrategicCommunication #Leadership #Strategy #CognitiveBias #Mindset (4/4)

Headlines Africa Dec 11

Narrative Sovereignty: Africa Reclaims Its Global Voice {Business Africa} http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPmGgQ #NarrativeSovereignty #AfricaRising #EconomicEmpowerment #AfricaReclaims #StrategicCommunication

Ruben Zondervan Nov 9

Wrote about poor decision-making and a sloppy feasibility study for a proposed #SMR in a small Dutch municipality. I was clear it wasn’t anti-nuclear or anti-SMR. Yet some anti-nuclear readers now assume I’m on their side. Typical: the more ideological people are, the harder it seems for them to distinguish substance from process. I had a similar argument about #strategiccommunication and #XR. https://rzondervan.eu/notes032025/ My text from yesterday on SMR is on proces! https://rzondervan.eu/prutsen-in-de-polder-met-een-smr/

Notes #3/2025: Mocking XR is easy but protest strategy still matters, and local politics even more.

Mocking XR is easy but protest strategy still matters, and local politics even more.

Ruben Zondervan

digitaldiplomacy Oct 20

New in International Affairs (w Alicia Fjällhed): “Public Diplomacy in the Crossfire: Decoding Ukraine’s ‘Strategic Self’ During Wartime.”

We introduce the Strategic Self — a framework explaining how states communicate under pressure:
🌍 Projecting Self → resilience, values, solidarity
⚔️ Distancing Self → exposing aggression, mobilising outrage

Effectiveness = adaptive balance + narrative restraint.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaf179

#DigitalDiplomacy #PublicDiplomacy #Ukraine #StrategicCommunication