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<p style="font-size: 200%; line-height: 1.3">''Deliberative Democracy''</p>
<p style="font-size: 125%; line-height: 1.3">Theories of Knowledge, Psycology, Deliberation and Goverment</p>
 
Humans tend to join into coalitions, and coordinate among themselves. Every gathering of people, is also a gathering of different wishes and needs, and some time these needs and wishes are in contradiction to one another. There are many ways to overcome these contradiction. wise leadership, is a leadership that knows how to bring all these wills into coordinate operation. But as the group grows, and the sorunding becoming more demanding, the coordination of the group become more and more difficult. Through history, many methods were developed, to drives group. Some times the main power that held groups together, was share power of the leadership, some times it was a shared narratives or ethos. But as democracy grow, the need for less power and more legitimate solutions was felt. In this area of time, when the internet ripe apart "narratives" and people are creating large groups, without the elites presiding over the adhesion making process, a true and effective for gathering the contradicting wills to a cooperative moment which will enables nations and states, find solution that will benefits the multitude. Deliberation is one of these methods, based on mutual understanding and decision making, through discussions with multitude of participants.
Deliberation is a method of thinking on problems together, and finding solutions that will be optimal for everybody that participates in the process. Deliberation is a very old practice, used by groups of governing bodies, to settle contradicting needs and desires, in a peaceful way. When deliberation failed, tension among the group is intensify, and may cause eruption of violence if not tended in time, or restrained by stronger power in the political system.