Making Group Decisions

If war is the violent resolution of conflict, then peace is not the absence of conflict,

but rather, the ability to resolve conflict without violence.

C.T. Butler

Debate Question:

How do you resolve group conflict without violence?

Choose a side:
Team A) A strong dictatorship leads to a peaceful, unified society, so if a group has a strong leader, then everybody just follows them, and things are easily resolved.
Team B) If there are fair rules made, and everyone knows what the rules are, then you just need a leader to be an arbitrator, and find out who was within the rules, and who wasn’t. This is fair because everyone knows what the rules are, and knows they have to follow them.
Team C) Moderator
Team D) Whoever makes a decision, the decision still has to be accepted by the rest of the group [society, citizens, etc.] So it would work a lot better if everybody participated in making the decision, because then they’d all be satisfied with the resulting decision.

Article:
On Conflict and Consensus: a handbook on Formal Consensus decisionmaking