[governance] Help from MAG colleagues

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<AANLkTik_2VFjms+HdbpDmx7HL_BhW3JNV16GvGmJyToZ at mail.gmail.com>, at 
20:17:04 on Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> writes

>Of course on certain areas five of us (Wolfgang, Anriette, Marilia, Parminder
>and myself) do not share one view or positions, since often
>civil society members have very diverse views, backgrounds and
>expertise that is our strength, not weakness.

And the same is true of the Government people. I don't think any of us 
expect them all to agree (these meetings would be far shorter if they 
did agree). Although once they've all signed up to a Treaty, we expect 
them all to follow it, even if later on they don't agree with it so 
much.

The problem with expecting full diversity in a multi-stakeholder 
environment such as this is that you'll never fully achieve it with so 
few people.

I don't see any middle-aged male North Americans[1] in your team, for 
example, so who is going to speak up for their civil society related 
hopes and aspirations, if not someone who is trying to represent a 
pre-researched *range* of civil society opinions rather than just their 
own?

[1] I pick this combination in the hope of offending no-one. And I'm 
sure nothing you'd say would be to deliberately disadvantage any group.
-- 
Roland Perry
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