Sentences with phrase «build a consensus around»

The unilateral nature of the action puts it on more shaky ground, but a missile strike on a base is not going to remove Assad, in and of itself, and is not in conjunction with the seizing of any territory, so the claim that it threatens the «territorial integrity or political independence» would be difficult to build a consensus around.

«The Programme aims to enhance engagements between state and non-state actors to build consensus around identified urban development priorities and amplify Africa's voice at the global level towards HABITAT III.

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.

To solve the task, the student must build consensus around how to solve the problem, respond to concerns, clear up misunderstandings, share information from trials and synthesize the results to come up with the correct answer.

«The goal of this project is to help build consensus around a shared set of facts about gun policy by demonstrating where scientific evidence is accumulating,» said Andrew Morral, the project's leader and a behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives.

Communicate effectively and build consensus around your organization's vision and mission and change agendas.

In this post, I will briefly highlight some of our members» visions and student outcomes, describe how they built consensus around these outcomes, and share examples of how some schools and districts captured their outcomes visually.

The field of teacher preparation has struggled for years to build consensus around these capabilities.

A disciplined strategic planning process allows school systems to engage stakeholders, build a consensus around what matters, and channel resources accordingly in order to ensure a maximum return on investments.

The Key Communicator should work with the other teachers and principal in their school to build consensus around the learning opportunities to connect it back to what students are learning in the classroom.

And by that metric — by our ability to build consensus around a set of interventions that work for closing the achievement gap — I would have to say that the last 50 years have been a near complete failure.

Is the IPCC there to make the case for, and build a consensus around AGW... or is it to accurately portray the science in all its fuzzy / uncertain / sausage - making glory?

Unfortunately, efforts to build consensus around an innovation - centered approach to climate mitigation have been marred by at least two major mischaracterizations that have muddled the debate.

Lastly, in light of the changing market, smart firms will revisit their strategic plans to update and build consensus around a 3 — 5 year vision and goals

Expert in building consensus around winning strategies, and the associated goals and action plans.

Summary of Qualifications: * Motivated by the desire to make a difference in the business, to work with a highly talented set of peers, and promote client success * Outstanding work ethic high sense of urgency to resolve issues quickly and efficiently * Able to articulate issues, build consensus around recommendations, and define next steps * A high sense of responsibility to customers, business partners, colleagues to «do...

Tony Raden develops strategies to engage early childhood champions and key stakeholders in policy, research, practice and philanthropy to help the Ounce of Prevention Fund build consensus around common local, state and federal agendas.

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And I expect to be able to help in this area over the coming months, so that we can achieve together this «consensus building» (Susan George) around the story.

«We need to build a cross-party consensus around them.

It was 2005, and I thought I should really write about this because there was such a consensus building around breastfeeding among people who agreed about nothing else.

More than that, the British centre - left must espouse a practical vision of an inclusive capitalism around which a lasting public consensus can be built.

There is a broad consensus in support of a different kind of politics and a new economic strategy built around public investment and enterprise and fair taxation.

That wasn't the result of great minds sitting around a table one day weighing up the pros and cons: it was the product of years of deliberation and delay, persuasion and preparation, through which a consensus was slowly built and those who disagreed — like [Margaret Thatcher's late economics adviser] Alan Walters — were gradually isolated.

Government must take steps to galvanize consensus around other issues of national importance, especially with respect to political governance nation - building matters, and should initiate a process of involving citizens whose experience, insight and expertise will enhance economic policy management and national governance.

Now it has sought to build a consensus until it is blue in the face and all of that tells us that there's no possible consensus around the bill.

When the need arises we meet as frequent as we should be meeting and at such meetings issues of concerns are brought to the fore for discussions, consensus is built around a lot of issues before they are rolled out to the public,» said Dzakpasu.

«Collecting more and stronger evidence about the true effects of laws is a necessary and promising step toward building greater consensus around effective gun policy.»

We must build on the global consensus around the Sustainable development goals, particularly on gender and on Land degradation neutrality to turn dreams into reality for poor rural women.

Cannes is a notoriously tricky (and often well - nigh impossible) contest to predict: partly because the voting body is an ever - changing template, but largely because there's been no time ahead of the festival for any kind of critical or popular consensus to build around the mostly unseen films on the shortlist.

We're increasingly in a world of film criticism that often feels like it's built around consensus, in which everyone has to agree that something is fantastic or awful, but Roger never cared about that.

The Globes come at a delicate point in awards season, just as consensus, or even a sense of inevitability, is building around certain prospective Oscar victors — but their timing, especially in the condensed awards season of recent years, means they don't always catch the wave.

How the race usually goes is that a general consensus begins to build around one movie (and we get some idea of that consensus during...

The folks in Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) probably put more time into building community consensus around their Compass 2015 initiative than any district in the country.

As current trends in contemporary society demand new educational responses, and traditional systems of learning are substantially challenged and reshaped, consensus is building around the importance of developing learners well prepared to meet the demands that current and future global trends make on individuals and societies, particularly in the area of civic and social participation, and ethical behavior in a world increasingly marked by difference.

If you are successful, at the end of Step 2 you will have built a community consensus around a shared vision for 21st century education.

As you think about how to build a broad consensus around your vision think about the stakeholders who could potentially support this vision.

Across the nation a consensus may be building around the legitimacy of standardization, pushing decentralizing reforms such as charter schools and vouchers to the side.

Much work has been done to demonstrate the importance of building these skills in students, yet more work is needed to build collaboration and consensus around these constructs and develop state standards and implementation guidelines in schools.

After engaging students in activities that challenged their understandings we had a class discussion that built a class consensus around the results of the activity.

We anticipate a final version of the community school implementation standards within the next several months, followed by a similar discussion and consensus - building process around systems infrastructures (e.g. district, county, state, federal level) to support development, implementation and sustainability of at - scale community school strategies.

I was in a position to build bridges and to open lines of communication and to find consensus and policy things that folks could coalesce around.

Its chiding tone in places is unlikely to build the sense of consensus and excitement around an energy quest that Lomborg seems to desire.

Let's build an awareness, a consensus, and let's educate and mobilize the body politic around it.

Lord Bach wrote for the Law Society Gazette about the need to build a cross-party consensus around access to justice to ensure that the justice system is once again affordable to all.

Lord Bach wrote for the Law Society Gazette about the interim report and the need to build a cross-party consensus around access to justice to ensure that the justice system is once again affordable to all.

Although no specific measures were announced, there is widespread acknowledgement that international cooperation is going to be needed on the issue sooner or later, and some consensus is building around how the world's biggest economies should treat cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

First, they can build widespread consensus in the ecosystem around the need for a backwards - incompatible change so as to avoid a confusing chain split.

Adept at precise requirements delineation and building team consensus around a winning approach to customer needs.