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PREFACE
This dialogue was convened by The Keystone Center, a neutral, non-profit organization that
facilitates national and international consensus-building dialogues among individuals representing
a diversity of interests. The Center conducts dialogues in seven main substantive areas: energy;
environmental quality; health; biotechnology and genetic resources; natural resources; agriculture,
food, and nutrition; and science and technology. The Center brings together people from the
private sector, environmental and citizen organizations, academia, and government to address
pressing questions, encourage scientific inquiry, enhance understanding and appreciation of the
natural world, and develop consensus on public policy issues.
The policy dialogue process provides an opportunity for people to develop a common
understanding of complex and controversial issues, explore respective interests, and negotiate
recommendations that shape public policy. To reach consensus, participants must be willing to
compromise. The resultant give-and-take creates a consensus document with a sum that is greater
than the parts. In this sense, participants may not always agree on specific positions when viewed
in isolation. Taken as a whole, however, they are willing to accept the full group's position as
part of an entire package to create a comprehensive agreement and further the interests of sound
public policy.
Participants followed three ground rules in this dialogue:
1. People participate in the discussions as individuals, not as formal representatives
of an interest group or organization.
2. All conversations are off-the-record and not for attribution.
3. No documents produced in the course of the dialogue or the final report are made
public until agreed upon by the group as a whole.
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National policy dialogue on state and federal regulation of the electricity industry - staff report on a Keystone policy dialogue, report, May 1, 1996; United States. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc667498/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.