Argumentative community meetings

Community progress and full local involvement in decision-making seems often to be stifled by argumentative community meetings. Where there are no mechanisms by which the community can resolve inter-personal and inter-group tensions creatively, these disconnected forms of engagement very often prevent people from coming together as one community.

1. Unprofitable local politics
2. Polarization of local conflicts
3. Communication breakdown

1. Divisive school districts

1. Reluctance to join in community action
2. Polarized protest against problems
3. Disrupted community events

1. Unwillingness to resolve problems
2. Unethical practices in communication
3. Sectarianism
4. Lack of participation in attempting to solve intergroup conflicts
5. Interpersonal rivalry
6. Ineffective techniques for achieving consensus
7. Inadequate meeting methods
8. Deficient communal mandate
9. Breakdown of local community cohesion

1. Resolving local conflicts
2. Instituting community consensus meetings
3. Conflicting verbally

1. Unresolved
2. Polarization
3. Nonlocal
4. Community
5. Argumentativeness
6. Anticommunity