LABORATORY

Ala’a Shehabi

Citizens’ Assembly _ Lebanon

LABORATORY

Ala’a Shehabi looks at an innovative method to integrate and democratise research whilst transforming the role of a university into a key facilitator for social and material change.

Ala’a Shehabi talks about the Citizens' Assembly on Energy in Lebanon

KEY WORDS

CommunityFutureJusticeLebanon

Citizen assemblies offer an innovative method to integrate and democratise research whilst transforming the role of a university into a key facilitator for social and material change. Shehabi and colleagues presented an experiment in running a citizen assembly to look at energy justice priorities in Lebanon and key conceptual and methodological findings from it, calling others to explore the use of citizen assemblies in their research.

The Citizens’ Assembly was launched in October 2020 by the Institute for Global Prosperity’s RELIEF Centre, led by Professor Henrietta L. Moore.

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In October of 2021 the RELIEF Centre convened a Citizens' Assembly on Energy in Lebanon. Residents of Hamra, Beirut gathered to deliberate energy justice and make critical decisions on where Lebanon should source its energy and how to best reduce energy demand.

WHO

Name Ala’a Shehabi (she/her)
Role Staff
Department The Bartlett School for Sustainable Construction

Credits 
Film: Sarah Lever
Post Editing: Sarah Lever and Isaac Nanabeyin Simpson

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