[governance] individuals

[Avri Doria]

On 25 apr 2006, at 16.48, Meryem Marzouki wrote:

> You said yourself that you "have occasionally looked at NGO's and
> tried to put their particpation into perspective."
> Do you think you could ever say that you "have occasionally looked at
> individuals and tried to put their particpation into perspective." ?

well, in a sense yes.  when looking at NGOs the perspective i was  
trying to find, was vis a vis the individual and in comparison to  
other NGOs.

also, with an individual I sometimes find myself trying to understand  
whether the individual is speaking for themselves as themselves, for  
themselves from a particular perspective they are putting on the sake  
of argument or advocacy, or as an individual acting in a role with  
some organization they may associate with.

i have a similar issue when listening to those of us who associate  
with NGOs.  are we speaking as individuals from our personal  
perspectives, as advocates for the NGO and its goals, as  
representatives of the NGO, as representatives of the NGO constituency.

as members of the IGC and other lists, we belong to many groups and  
unless we tag every message we write with the hat we are wearing when  
we speak i think it is difficult to do more then, as i think Bret  
sort of says, try and determine whether the idea presented is  
understandable and something we can agree with from our perspective  
or from what we believe to be a valuable other perspective.


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