Reflective Consensus Building on Wicked Problems

The Reflect! platform is designed to organize Reflective Consensus Building on Wicked Problems in small teams.

Examples of wicked problems are

• complex policy issues such as health care reform, poverty, global trade, or climate change;
• the regulation of new and emerging technologies;
• the design of products and technologies; and
• planning processes that involve different stakeholders.

The complexity of wicked problems results from the fact that they can be framed in a number of different ways, depending on varying interests, world-views, values, or differences regarding the scale on which people think the problem should be addressed.