Responsible actors navigate. To do so, they try to find their bearings in a changing and often complex reality, guided by their best knowledge and conscience, and to assess as accurately as possible the potential consequences of different courses of action—then steer themselves accordingly. When this is done consciously with regard to interaction logics, forms of interaction and levels of civility (the civility-theoretical variable space), it can be called civility navigation.

The concept has developed rapidly over the past few weeks—see the accompanying dialogue texts.

Dialogue texts