Building Dialogue

Helping you plan and facilitate difficult dialogues

  • Improving Our Information

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    For several weeks now I have been teaching a class called “Democracy Lab.” The class reflects the hypothesis that increasing both dialogue and critical thinking skills will improve our democracy. As we discussed the current state of our politics, two key themes emerged, both relating to the information available to voters.  The first theme related…

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  • Thinking Together

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    We got to where we are politically today through millions of consumer driven decisions on what information to look at and where. How many of those decisions were driven by a desire to be comfortable, to have one’s worldview or worst fears confirmed? To move forward, we need to build new ways of sifting through…

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  • Peace and Prosperity: What Will It Take?

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    We know what brings peace and prosperity. The Institute  for Economics and Peace has been studying that for 13 years, publishing annual “Global Peace Index” and “Positive Peace Index” reports. The Global Peace Index looks at the presence (or absence) of violence and the threat of violence. The United States is in the bottom half…

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  • How Do We Want It To Be?

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    “There is an simple solution to every human problem – easy, plausible, and wrong.” H.L. Mencken It’s easy in our debate-oriented culture to get stuck in an exchange of positions and arguments over who is right or what is wrong.  So how do you move through that? Here is one question that often works to…

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  • Yes Dialogue Is Hard. Here Are Some Resources.

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    If we are going to live well together, we need to learn how to talk with each other.  Not at each other, not past each other, but with each other. This is hard to do because it’s not how we’re taught. We’re often taught to assert our views and to dismiss those with which we…

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