Here is my vision - very basic, basic, basic draft #1.
Cyprus Forum Truth Commission proposal
Purpose
1. To rule statements and claims as true, false, probably true, probably false or undetermined.
2. To create generalised standards for credibility that are universally applied to all claims.
Composition
Create 2 groups of commissioners. One GC group and one TC group of 3 or 5 or 7 members each. For voting reasons, the number of members of each group should be an odd number. Let GCs decide for themselves who should be on the GC group. Likewise, let TCs decide for themselves who should be on the TC group. Let each group decide for themselves their voting rules, eg unanimous or majority voting.
Procedure
Anyone on the forum can make any statement or claim which they believe is the truth and ask the commission to rule accordingly. The number of rulings a member can ask for must be limited because of resources, etc. If both groups do not assign the same "truth value" (e.g. "probably false") then the statement or claim is deemed as "undetermined". None of the rulings are etched in stone. Commissioners can reignite the debate and call for rulings anytime.
Documentation
Under the "Cyprus Problem" subforum, create a sub forum called "Cyprus Forum Truth Commission". Only the mods and commissioners are to have editing access to this subforum.
Within the "Cyprus Forum Truth Commission" subforum create the following subforums.
"The truths"
"The falsehoods"
"The probable truths"
"The probable falsehoods"
"The undetermined"
The statements or claims that have been ruled upon by the commission shall be allocated their own thread within the appropriate subforum.
Or maybe a Wiki is the way to go instead of subforums and threads ?
Duties
If a forum member makes a claim in contradiction to a previous ruling then it is the duty of the same ethnic group in the commission to make sure the forum member is made aware of this.
This "Truth Commission" will explicitly show everybody visiting this forum what we agree on, what we disagree on. We will have an "official record" so we don't have to keep reinventing the wheel or rehashing resolved issues.
Anything goes! No matter how trivial! We are only limited by the number of Commissioners and how much time they have to spare. And no need for 100 page written judgements either. Just a simple vote from both groups.
I can foresee that there will be a large number of "undetermined" rulings but that's OK. What will be most interesting are the logical inferences coming from the "true" and "false" rulings.
I hope I have given you guys a glimpse of my vision. I'll follow up later with some examples and maybe we can use this thread to evolve the basic concept.
Your thoughts or questions ?
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