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    Principles of consensus decision making

    1.2) Rather than simply list known alternatives, debate for a short time, vote, and then accept
    or reject by some measure, a consensus decision-making process involves identifying and
    addressing concerns, generating new alternatives, combining elements of multiple alternatives
    and checking that people understand a proposal or an argument