Category Archives: Idealogue

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

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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

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Technology: Good & Bad

Another interesting development that we learned about in Nigeria is the use of cellphones and texting to create early warning systems in areas where there are threats of violence. While computer internet access is comparatively limited in Nigeria (although this … Continue reading

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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

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Transpartisanship

Another recent Utne Reader article caught our eye at Idealogue, Inc.: In “America’s Transpartisan Future: Daring to accept our differences” (Utne Reader, September-October 2009) David Schimke interviews Michael Ostrolenk, a licensed psychotherapist and “center-right” conservative, and the cofounder and national director of the … Continue reading

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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

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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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