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Volume 1, Issue 1, 2007Democracy at the Core: Recalling Participation's Raison D'EtreMichael Briand The IAP2 has adopted a set of ‘Core Values for Public Participation’ that, taken together, are intended to serve as the warrant and the touchstone for our principles, priorities, and practices, both as individual professionals and as a professional community. These ‘Core Values’ are statements of fundamental values that public participation efforts should embody and reflect. They are also assertions of universal values—values that are valid irrespective of variation in the public setting, be it national, cultural, religious, ideological, or political. As such, they are intended to be invoked and applied throughout the world as the normative basis for constructing, implementing, and evaluating public participation processes.
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