Proposal #18: Self-nomination.
I propose to exclude the need for nomination in all CISV International's election (both for IEC and IJR).
Rationale
I believe that in this way we would descentralize the responsibility of searching volunteers to assume key leadership positions on the organization (that nowadays lies mainly on the trustees and NJRs when coming to the IJRs) and would provide a more democratic way to people to put their name forward to the board's appreciation (exercising their genuine right to put the their name forward to the positions that they believe they are able to perform). I also believe that this would go towards the strategic goal of avoiding exclusion (in the particular issue of excluding people from the election process) and don't think that this would increase the number of candidates that would make the election unfeasible.
Tiago (BRA)
Background
Following CISV international rules, only people that have been nominated by two CISV countries (trustee or president, I believe) can run for CISV positions, like International Junior Representative, or even CISV President.
Exploring "how to avoid excluding people, groups, NAs, and nations from CISV" is one of the 5 goals that CISV international has decided to focus on within the strategic plan 2005-2009. Please find more on this at the Strategic Planning website.
5 Comments:
I agree on the motivation of this proposal. Any motion or suggestion meant to de-centralize cisv decisions meet my total and passionate agreement.
Let's go for it!
Luca
Interesting, but there should be other ways around it.
I think nomitations allow a decent filtering between people as well as motivate people:
- An election with too many candidates is always confusing
- Nominations push some people which might not be motivated at the beginning to run
- Sometime you don't want some people even to run (this is very politically incorrect, but such is life)
I'm sure i can find some more arguments
teo,
I agree that there should exist filters to election process, I just think that this filter should be the motivation, not nominations...
- First cause the nomination filter does not prevent an election with many candidates (if you think that there are around 50 NAs, there could be 25 candidates for each position) and I think there won't be much increase in the number of candidates in this process of self-nomination (since it is still not a simple task to put their name foward to the board's appreciation)
- Second, as well as nomination push some people that were not that motivate on the beginning (I agree on that), the need to nomination also pull some motivated people out of the run... I rather have these motivated from the beggining included that these not as motivated...
- Concerning the third argument I will have to disagree in principle. And besides nomination in a big pool like ours (with 50 possible options to get the nomination from), even someone that half of the pool don't want to run can find their way out to get the nominations... So even if I disagree in principle, nomination requirement isn't a good tool to prevent "unwanted" people from running..
just some more coments on the issue...
I see where the proposal come from and, in principle, I agree with it.
I recognize that the Nominations system have, yes, a role in the Eletion process - which is to only "allow" candidates that already have some support.
It is clear, however, that in the past years (at least in elections for IJR) the nomination period have been explicitly a moment where the most active ones try to find out "who wants to run" and make sure they have enough nominations.
Having said that, and not making judgements here, I think that we should choose between the two systems. The first being the one we have now, where countries actually nominate who they think would do a great job and the second having people deciding for themselves if they are ready and willing to run.
Not having that strong feelings about it, I say: either we take nominations seriously or we get rid of them.
I accept and agree the second of Teo's arguments and I think this is, yes, one positive point of the w/Nomination process.
that's it for now...
hm... let's try to combine some of the ideas. Why not make the nomination procedure so that there is only 1 nomination needed and the nomination can come from the country of the "nominee" (see Germany as a NA can nominate a German person for the position).
In this way it
a) is easy to get nominated as most people who would want to run can find support within their own NA, so it's close to self-nomination
b) enables NAs/ people to motivate/ encourage other people to run by nominating them - eventhough they might never have nominated themselves.
Another thing is that I cannot imagine you would not want a person to run (no offense anywhere of course). I mean; if the majority agrees with you that the person in question is not capable of the job, one would not have to be afraid of him/ her winning the elections, right? And we wouldn't want to exclude anyone from running, or?
curious for your reactions,
Ingrid (NL)
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