Building Dialogue

Helping you plan and facilitate difficult dialogues

Category: Guns and Dialogue

  • Teaching The Navigation of Difficult Dialogues: Structure

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    There are many different ways to start a public conversation. Unfortunately the ways that are most often used can make the navigation of difficult issues even more difficult than it needs to be. For example, we often move to deliberation too quickly in our public processes. The public is invited to give input on one…

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  • Teaching The Navigation of Difficult Dialogues: Intro

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    Last semester (Fall 2013), I (Sarah) was asked to redesign and teach the Public Policy Dispute Resolution class at the University of Missouri School of Law which I greatly enjoyed doing. The last third of the semester the students planned and participated in a series of dialogues around the issue of gun violence in the…

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  • Planning For Civil Discourse About Gun Violence

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    As we noted in our last post, political parties and citizens alike remain deeply divided on what might be done to reduce gun violence. There is however growing support for reducing that violence. Doing so will require more  substantive and civil dialogue that is sustained over time. In February we were selected by the National Institute for…

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  • Guns and Dialogue: Exploring Why Civil Discourse Is So Difficult

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    After the mass shooting in Newtown, communities around the nation began dialogues on what steps might be taken to reduce gun violence.  Some states have adopted new laws, and in others no resolution has been forthcoming.  As Congress returns next week to to take up the issue, political parties and citizens alike remain deeply divided on how…

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