Difficult Dialogues

Useful Links

  • Difficult Dialogues Initiative National Site
    http://difficultdialogues.org
    Difficult Dialogues is a program designed to promote academic freedom and religious, cultural, and political pluralism on college and university campuses in the United States. Currently, 43 institutions are implementing projects that address these issues. While all projects seek to prepare students to constructively engage with difficult and sensitive topics, the projects address a wide range of substantive areas. These include topics such as: fundamentalism and secularism, racial and ethnic relations, the Middle East conflict, religion and the university, sexual orientation, and academic freedom.
  • National Issues Forum
    http://www.nifi.org
    National Issues Forums (NIF) is a network of civic, educational, and other organizations, and individuals, whose common interest is to promote public deliberation in America. NIF does not advocate specific solutions or points of view but provides citizens the opportunity to consider a broad range of choices, weigh the pros and cons of those choices, and meet with each other in a public dialogue to identify the concerns they hold in common. The site hosts dialogue materials on a range of public policy issues from terrorism, to social security, to immigration.
  • Conflict Resolution Information Source (CRInfo)
    http://www.crinfo.org
    An online clearinghouse, indexing more than 25,000 peace- and conflict resolution-related Web pages, books, articles, audiovisual materials, organizational profiles, events, and current news articles.
  • Deliberation
    ttp://www.deliberations.org
    Duke University's Kenan Institute on Ethics and its Writing Program have developed extensive materials on "engaging in reasoned and robust argument as an ethical, civic, and academic practice. 


 

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What faculty and students are saying about Difficult Dialogues




“Students and faculty both have experienced confusing and frustrating controversial discussions; students want and need more interaction with faculty.”