Zukunftszeugen IV - Wolfgang Reinicke Index Interview Transcript 1 Transcript 2 Transcript 3 Transcript 4

				3. Global Public Policy Networks (GPPN) Global Public Policy Networks are primarily designed to harness that knowledge, to bring different actors with different perspectives - because after all we have to remember, this is a political issue, so there is a conflict out there and compromises need to been found. Global Public Policy Networks are supposed to bring these different actors together. And hopefully, if it is done rightly, to develop a compromise on an important and critical transnational contexts. Ultimately those have to be embedded in the national and local context, and that is why it is so important that these networks include and embrace people from around the world, not just the elite, but also local people, so it can be truly inclusive. Because only if it's inclusive, implementation will work, and only if implementation will work, will these networks and their decisions succeed. In your article "The Other World Wide Web" you mentioned examples for these networks that all seemed to be based on a yet existing harmony of interest in a specific issue area. How do you handle the problem of multiple actors' divergence of interests? That is precisely the purpose of these networks. These interests diverge. The purpose is to bring them together and through dialogue and being able to recognize the other person's perspective, the other person's, if you will, "world view" on a specific issue, to begin to make them understand, that maybe that NGO representative's or the business representative's perspective is a realistic one, it needs to be included. Maybe not in its fullest account - in other words, there has to be a compromise - but allow them to perceive each other and begin to understand, yes, the other person has a point as well. That's precisely the role, that's precisely the purpose. TOP
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