Dialogue resources
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This document lists and provides brief descriptions of organizations that promote civic engagement and public deliberation on important issues. Some of the key organizations mentioned include Everyday Democracy, which helps facilitate discussions to solve community problems, the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, which promotes the use of dialogue to address challenges, and America Speaks, whose tools engage citizens in public decision making.
Dialogue resources
- 1. 2013 Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit Weaving Deep Connections through Dialogue Resources of Interest Everyday Democracy http://www.everyday-democracy.org/ Everyday Democracy helps people of different backgrounds talk together to solve problems and create communities that work for everyone. Using innovative, participatory approaches, Everyday Democracy works with neighborhoods, cities and towns, regions, and states and emphasizes the connection between complex public issues and structural racism. National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation http://ncdd.org/ The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation promotes the use of dialogue, deliberation, and other innovative group processes to help people come together across differences to tackle our most challenging problems. We serve as a gathering place, a resource clearinghouse, a news source, and a facilitative leader for the dialogue and deliberation community and beyond. National Issues Forum http://www.nifi.org/ National Issues Forums is a network of civic, educational, and other organizations, and individuals, whose common interest is to promote public deliberation in America. It has grown to include thousands of civic clubs, religious organizations, libraries, schools, and many other groups that meet to discuss critical public issues. The World Café http://www.theworldcafe.com/ The World Café is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter. It's a way of thinking and being together sourced in a philosophy of conversational leadership. Sustained Dialogue http://www.sustaineddialogue.org/ Sustained Dialogue is a systematic, open-ended political process to transform relationships over time. It conceptualizes of three decades of experience with dialogue among citizens outside government in such relationships. It may be used in national, community, corporate, or campus settings. America Speaks http://americaspeaks.org/ AmericaSpeaks’ mission is to reinvigorate American Democracy by engaging citizens in the public decision-making that most impacts their lives. Our tools, like the 21st Century Town Meeting®, give citizens an opportunity to have a strong voice in public decision-making within the increasingly short timeframes required of decision-makers.
- 2. The Deliberative Democracy Consortium http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/ The Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC) is a network of practitioners and researchers representing more than 50 organizations and universities, collaborating to strengthen the field of deliberative democracy. The Consortium seeks to support research activities and to advance practice at all levels of government. Participedia http://participedia.net/ Participedia is an open global knowledge community for researchers and practitioners in the field of democratic innovation and public engagement. The Democracy Imperative http://www.unh.edu/democracy/ The Democracy Imperative is a national network of scholars, campus leaders, and civic leaders committed to strengthening democracy in and through higher education. The Kettering Foundation http://kettering.org/ The Kettering Foundation is a nonprofit operating foundation rooted in the tradition of cooperative research. Kettering’s primary research question is, what does it take to make democracy work as it should? This research is distinctive because it is conducted from the perspective of citizens and focuses on what people can do collectively to address problems affecting their lives, their communities, and their nation. Public Agenda http://www.publicagenda.org/ Public Agenda, an innovative public opinion research and public engagement organization, works to strengthen our democracy's capacity to tackle tough public policy issues. Our efforts are all focused on ensuring that the public's views are represented in decision-making. Public Conversations Project http://www.publicconversations.org/ Since 1989, PCP has worked in the U.S. and around the world facilitating dialogues on a wide range of contentious issues including abortion, forest management, homosexuality and faith, biodiversity, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and many others. In a world bristling with tension, controversy, polarization, and war, PCP aims to reduce rancor in public squares and promote effective communication within communities.