The International Civil Society Consortium for Public Deliberation is an international, nonprofit network of civic organizations from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, and Africa whose main aim is to enhance cooperation in promoting responsible democratic institutions and public deliberation around the world.

Members welcome the inclusion of other organizations in this international network.

Organizations that wish to launch programs based on or related to public deliberative approaches to community decision-making are encouraged to become members of the Consortium. To join or learn more, click here.

Members of ICSC have been gathering since 1991, while they first started informally meeting under the coordination of The Kettering Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization. Since then, the network has grown to include civil society activists, researchers and academics representing nongovernmental organizations, university departments, foundations, and journals. The following countries are currently represented in ICSC: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bahrain, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Kosovo/FRY, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Morroco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.

Today ICSC members regularly participate in exchanges to learn from one another, and to strengthen democratic practice by enriching democratic thought.