Construção de consenso e a gestão da pandemia de covid-19: estrutura, desenvolvimento e resultados no Estado do Ceará

Abstract

The proper management of conflicts generated by the Covid-19 health crisis requires the development of public control policies that, limiting individual rights, reduce viral spread and the resulting deaths. These conflicts are complex and, in Brazil, given the lack of coordination between the different levels of government due to extreme political-ideological polarization, governors and mayors assumed the position of main crisis managers. In the state of Ceará, a political choice submitted the decision-making process of formulating these policies to the consensus building method, horizontalizing and democratizing the management of conflicts. The article describes and analyzes the development and results of the crisis management structure, informed by the self-composition of complex multilateral conflicts, evidencing its ability to reduce litigation and, as a consequence, produce more satisfactory results for the reduction of the impacts of the pandemic.