Consensus decision-making spread abroad through the anti-globalization and climate movements, and has become normalized in anti-authoritarian spheres in conjunction with affinity groups and ideas of participatory democracy and prefigurative politics.
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An earlier account of consensus decision-making comes from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the main student organization of the civil rights movement, founded in 1960.
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Consensus decision-making was used at the first Camp for Climate Action and subsequent camps.
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Consensus decision-making is an alternative to commonly practiced group decision-making processes.
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The ethics of consensus decision-making encourage participants to place the good of the whole group above their own individual preferences.
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Some Consensus decision-making bodies rotate these roles through the group members in order to build the experience and skills of the participants, and prevent any perceived concentration of power.
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In Consensus decision-making is not Unanimity, long-time progressive change activist Randy Schutt writes:.
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Confusion between unanimity and consensus, in other words, usually causes consensus decision-making to fail, and the group then either reverts to majority or supermajority rule or disbands.
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Since consensus decision-making focuses on discussion and seeks the input of all participants, it can be a time-consuming process.
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