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  • The Politics of the Brokenhearted: a conference with Parker J. Palmer
    John Fenner, senior associate with Everyday Democracy and program director for the Center for Courage & Renewal, asked me to share an announcement with you. This October 21-24, the Center for Courage & Renewal in conjunction with Courage & Renewal Northeast will be hosting Parker J. Palmer, author of The Courage to Teach, Let Your [...]
  • September 2nd Monthly Update from NCDD
    If you didn’t see this in your inbox yesterday, please subscribe to the monthly Updates list of the National Coalition for dialogue & Deliberation at www.thataway.org/?page_id=855. – Hi, everyone! Did you know that NCDD members are organizing regional events in 5 cities across the U.S. this fall? Join Us at NCDD’s Upcoming Regional Events I [...]
  • Bold Ideas for Public Engagement with Congress
    If you are interested in improving how citizens and Congress communicate, I’d like to point you to the Open Model for Citizen Engagement (OM4CE), started by Wayne Burke, the visionary executive director of the Open Forum Foundation. Whether you are involved with elected representatives at the federal, state, or local level, there are some bold [...]

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The Shifting Grounds of Conflict and Peacebuilding: Stories and Lessons PDF Print E-mail

The book brings together the remembrances of Ambassador McDonald, a veteran diplomat whose life serves as a model to those people of vision and action who wish to make a difference in a world that is desperate for the end of conflict. Beginning his career in international diplomacy in post-WWII Berlin under the Marshall Plan, Ambassador McDonald’s 40 years of working with the U.S. government and the United Nations—as well as with various academic institutions and NGOs—offer the reader both inspiration and hope for the future of international peace and cooperation. This international civil servant of extraordinary vision and courage has devoted his life to the successful resolution of conflict through communication.
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Boston Prochoice and Prolife Leaders Dialogue PDF Print E-mail
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The Public Conversations Project.

Summary:

Read about PCP's groundbreaking 7-year abortion dialogue involving pro-choice and pro-life leaders in the Boston area. PCP has been doing dialogue work with Prochoice and Prolife activists and others since 1989.

Don't miss the 2001 article "Talking with the Enemy" from the Boston Globe, which is posted at www.publicconversations.org/pcp/resource_details.php?ref_id=102.

Resource Link:

http://www.publicconversations.org/pcp/resource_details.php?ref_id=97
 
A Framework for Deliberation Dialogues PDF Print E-mail
Bibliographic Details:

David Hitchcock, Peter McBurney, and Simon Parsons. 2001.

Summary:

Deliberation dialogues involve reasoning about the appropriate course or courses of action for a group to undertake. According to the authors, no models currently exist for the conduct of such dialogues. Beginning with an analysis of the differences between deliberations and other types of dialogue (such as negotiations or information-seeking dialogues), the authors propose a generic framework in which to develop such models. The authors then consider various instantiations of their generic deliberation framework so as to illustrate its applicability.

Resource Link:

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hitchckd/deliberationdialogues.pdf

From Lars Hasselblad Torres' 'Webliography.' – National Coalition of Dialogue and Deliberation – A Framework for Deliberation Dialogues