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New Facts
Joe Keohane writes in the Boston Globe about “How Facts Backfire”, looking at a fascinating study that sheds light on how we learn and absorb new information. Or not… Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In … Continue reading
Bridging Babel
The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University recently published a report on social media and interfaith dialogue. Idealogue, Inc. participated in the study, and you can view and download “Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and … Continue reading
New Dialogue Toolkits?
We haven’t heard of this much in our dialogue and facilitation travels, but it appears the use of aroma therapy could play a useful role in creating successful dialogue processes! The Boston Globe writes here. A team of researchers found … Continue reading
NCDD report to Kettering Foundation
NCDD recently published a report to the Kettering Foundation surveying member views about their own work, methodologies and best practices in democratic governance, dialogue and deliberation. An interesting look at challenges, progress and opportunities in the field.
How Not to Facilitate Health Care Dialogues
From the The Wall Street Journal, an interactive about the recent healthcare summit. Hat tip to Tim Bonnemann at Intellitics.
Storytelling and Online Dialogue
We are excited to be contributing as guest bloggers to the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) Blog. Here is our first post that discusses our experience with storytelling on BeyondTolerance.org, an interfaith and cultural conflict dialogue site utilizing … Continue reading
Dialogue as Action
I just returned from Nigeria where I had the privilege of accompanying Professor Darren Kew from the UMass Boston Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution and Dave Joseph from Public Conversations Project, helping to research online dialogue and other technology-based learning opportunities as … Continue reading
Different Faiths, One Friendship
As Laurie Goodstein writes in the New York Times: It sounds like the start of a joke: a rabbi, a minister and a Muslim sheik walk into a restaurant. But what follows is an enlightening article about the power of … Continue reading
Liberals vs. Conservatives
The Utne Reader in “Liberals Aren’t Un-American. Conservatives Aren’t Ignorant” discusses the work of Jonathan Haidt who proposes a new approach to understanding conflict between liberals and conservatives. At the core of the divide are several fundamental differences on 5 … Continue reading
Democracy on the Web
Anand Giridharadas of the The New York Times writes in “Athens on the Net” about the optimism and challenges of bringing the practice of democracy to the web. A nice summary of complex dynamics of civic participation in this relatively … Continue reading
Sharing Space
In an age when we read so much about conflict, we were inspired to read this article about Jews and Muslims practicing their faiths together under the same roof: “People look to the Jewish-Muslim relationship as conflict,” said All Dulles … Continue reading
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Intentions
Over the course of developing a website to encourage dialogue between people with different points of view, we’ve received comments along the lines that cross-ideology dialogue will be difficult and people pointing to the status quo or bringing up, for … Continue reading
Words and Dialogue
A couple weeks ago I was able to attend The Democracy Imperative conference at the University of New Hampshire, an exciting weekend of discussion and learning on how to strengthen participatory democracy and citizen engagement in governance from local issues … Continue reading
NAIN Connect 2009
This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the North American Interfaith Network (NAIN) Connect 2009 conference. Idealogue, Inc. is building a custom online community for a college campus dialogue initiative called Beyond Tolerance with the purpose of deepening … Continue reading
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Reminders of the Power of Dialogue
Mary Jacksteit from Public Conversations Project is published in The Huffington Post with a great piece on the power of dialogue in the history of the abortion debate: The Buffalo Case: Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Can Work Together I share these … Continue reading
Welcome to the Idea Log
In our work and travels starting Idealogue, Inc., and developing new software technology for furthering dialogue potential on the internet, we continually come across interesting articles and resources that have sparked our imaginations or created active discussions with our partners. We decided to … Continue reading
Comment Culture
Virginia Heffernan writes a great piece Comment is King in the New York Times Magazine about the culture of online commenting. Wildly popular but not always that useful, commenting is for better or worse a common form of online interaction … Continue reading →