On the other hand, the risk of further fragmentation could make it more pressing for the Taliban to gather consensus behind peace talks as soon as possible.
"It's difficult to gather consensus and to get attention because what's happening is, we are constantly reacting to the disasters that are happening," Mr. Bendimerad said by telephone from Bangkok.
In less than 18 months they held over 1,000 one-to-one meetings with members to gather consensus and form community strategies.
This underlines the need to gather consensus views from experienced injectors who have treated many patients.
Rather than gather consensus on treatment options prescribed in a survey, Part B was designed as open-ended and free text to allow clinicians to describe the most common treatment interventions used in the unit to rehabilitate stroke patients' upper limbs following stroke.
In interviews, delegates' views on the proposal seemed to range widely, and gave few hints whether Ms. Lewis, the president, had gathered a consensus behind the deal, which she had earlier deemed good if imperfect.
Although the functional investigation had already delivered striking insights that gathered the consensus of both experts and stakeholders, the Foresight exercise included also a further cross-check of the results through other methodologies, such as the analysis of S-curves.
We used the Delphi method, which is an objective process that gathers consensus opinion from a panel of experts through an iterative questionnaire process interspersed with controlled opinion feedback [ 9].
Sometimes it chooses to push ahead on its own, not hanging around to gather a consensus from fellow members of the UN Security Council or from the European Union.
"The [negotiation] process failed to gather a consensus on steps Norway views [as] essential," the Norwegian delegate told the general assembly, saying that opium replacement therapy and an end to drug crime executions should have been included.
