National Peace Conference 2014
The National Peace Conference was convened at the beginning of 2014 by President Nicolás Maduro following repeated street protests that year. It promoted dialogue with sectors of the political and economic opposition. A space of dialogue was convened with invited representatives of these sectors, seeking to bring them together and discuss the issues that were provoking the protests. At the meeting, 29 representatives of the business sector were invited; among them the Federation of Chambers (Fedecámaras), the Federation of Industries (Fedeindustrias) and the Empresa Polar Group, as well as representatives from the media. Delegates from the National Electoral Council (CNE), the Supreme Court of Justice, the Attorney General of the Republic and the National Assembly (AN) also attended. However, the refusal to participate by the Democratic Unity Board (Mesas de la Unidad Democrática; MUD), which united the opposition political parties, had as a consequence that the dialogues could not have continuity.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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