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		<title>Learning with the Citizens’ Accord Forum: Building a Shared Society in a Sustainable Democracy in Israel (Connections 2016)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The six-page article, &#8220;Learning with the Citizens&#8217; Accord Forum: Building a Shared Society in a Sustainable Democracy in Israel&#8221; by&#160;Phillip D. Lurie was&#160;published in&#160;Kettering Foundation&#8216;s 2016 edition of their annual newsletter,&#160;Connections&#160;&#8211; Kettering&#8217;s Multinational Research. In the sixth article of the newsletter, Lurie shares the work of the Citizens&#8217; Accord Forum in Israel which works on bridging divides between Jews and Arabs in order to address issues in daily life through dialogue and deliberation.&#160;Below is an excerpt from the article and Connections 2016 is available for [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/12184">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian School of Peacebuilding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), an institute of Canadian Mennonite University, offers a selection of five-day courses each June. Courses can be taken for professional or personal development or for academic credit. The CSOP is designed for anyone between the ages of 20 and 90 who is interested in peace work, including not-for-profit staff and interns, activists and peace educators, community leaders, religious leaders, teachers and professors, students (undergraduate or graduate), and government officials. All participants need to be fluent in English. The school [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11917">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Deliberation across Deeply Divided Societies: Transformative Moments</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/12043</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 5-page review written by Nancy A. Vamvakas&#160;of&#160;Deliberation across Deeply Divided Societies: Transformative Moments&#160;(2017), by J&#252;rg Steiner, Maria Clara Jaramillo, Rousiley C. M. Maia, and Simona Mameli, was&#160;published in the&#160;Journal of Public Deliberation: Vol. 13: Iss. 1. In the book, the authors analyze group discussions from three distinct conflicts in Colombia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, and Brazil; and discuss the various approaches to deliberation in each area.&#160;Read an excerpt of the review below and find the PDF available for download on&#160;the Journal of Public Deliberation site&#160;here. From the [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/12043">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Home for the Holidays: Dialogue Across Divides Among Family and Friends</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11923</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living Room Conversations released the guide,&#160;Home for the Holidays: Dialogue Across Divides Among Family and Friends, which we&#160;found Fall 2017 (original publish date unknown). The guide give excellent pointers on how to hold living room conversations with family members taking into consideration all the challenges that family can bring. You can read the guide below, find a downloadable PDF here or the original on Living Room Conversation&#8217;s site here. From the guide&#8230; This year we&#8217;ve been hearing from all sorts of people that they want [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11923">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Graduate Certificate in Collaborative Governance</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11814</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 13:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Collaborative Governance Graduate certificate is available at Portland State University and is part of the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government. In response to a growing need for collaborative approaches to complex problems that span multiple jurisdictional, sectoral, and organizational boundaries, the Hatfield School of Government, the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, the National Policy Consensus Center (NPCC), and the Center for Public Service (CPS) have partnered to offer a set of courses that lead to a Graduate Certificate in Collaborative Governance. [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11814">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Red Blue Dictionary</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11634</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Red Blue Dictionary, in partnership with Allsides, is a collaborative effort with dozens of dialogue experts from the NCDD network, to create a site that gives definitions for a wide variety of words to help those all across the political spectrum better understand each other. The idea for the website stemmed from&#160;the &#8220;Red Blue Dialogue brainstorming session&#8221; at the 2012 NCDD conference in Seattle, where Joan Blades, Amanda Roman and Jacob Hess decided to further develop the idea.&#160;Living Room Conversations, in early 2016, continued [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11634">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not in Our Town Quick Start Guide</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11458</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Not in Our Town Quick Start Guide: Working together for safe, inclusive communities,&#160;was created by Not in Our Town (NIOT) and updated March 2013. The guide gives five steps to begin a campaign in your town or school to stop hate, address bullying, and build safer communities together Below is an excerpt from the guide, which can be downloaded from NIOT&#8217;s site here&#160;or at the link at the bottom of the page. From the guide&#8230; You may be someone who is concerned about divisions [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11458">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Truth-telling, Reconciliation and Restorative Justice</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11374</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth-telling, Reconciliation and Restorative Justice,&#160;is a course taught at Eastern Mennonite University&#8217;s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. The course is part of&#160;the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, under Session IV, &#160;and taught by Cal Stauffer and Fania Davis. To learn more about the rest of the courses offered at EMU&#8217;s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, click here. From the description&#8230; The call for &#8220;truth-telling&#8221; has become paramount in the quest for justice. This course critically explores the linkages between truth and justice and grapples with the form [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11374">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When Relationships Are Not Enough: Reconciling with Genocide</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11328</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article, When Relationships Are Not Enough: Reconciling with Genocide, by Dave Joseph was published September 21, 2015 on Public Conversations Project&#8217;s blog. In the article, Joseph reflects on his recent trip to Rwanda and the many intense and challenging emotions that arose when paying respects at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. The memorial honors those murdered in the 1994 genocide committed against the Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Joseph explores how such an extreme atrocity can happen and how this affects people to dialogue- what is [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11328">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth [RJOY]</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11232</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth [RJOY] was co-created by Fania Davis and members of the Oakland community and government. RJOY works to implement programs within schools, the community and juvenile justice system; beginning with a pilot program at West Oakland middle school in 2007.&#160;In the places where restorative justice has been implemented, there has been a noticeable decrease in youth violence, crimes and recidivism; and an increase in victim satisfaction and reconciliation of affected parties. Restorative justice provides an alternative to our current [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11232">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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