In the popular Jaywalking segments of his television show, Jay Leno asks a variety of fourth grade questions to random people on the streets of Los Angeles. The audience roars with laughter at their responses. “Who was the...

On a recent Friday morning, a classroom of teenagers at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School broke up into small groups and spent an hour not answering questions about Albert Camus’s “The...

If you’re looking for resources on dialogue, deliberation and public engagement, boy have you come to the right place! Here are some of the things you can find in NCDD’s Resource Center… New to dialogue & deliberation (D&D),...

We need to create a science which studies society as a special kind of organization, one that precede all other organizations and where we the citizens are its clients, ... more » We need to create a science which studies...

America can't afford to leave its government in the hands of professionals. This year I'll wrap up a decade as a trustee of the Seattle Public Library. Our board of five citizens has unusual authority. Appointed by the mayor,...

Here’s one more reason to sign up for NCDD’s first online book club…  the Kettering Foundation wants to send a free copy of Democratizing Deliberation to all book club members! Democratizing Deliberation: A Political Theory...

"How might we design an organizational infrastructure for a coordinated and practical national dialogue?" This is a topic I want to cover during our NCDD conference in Seattle this October. But first, I'd like to invite my fellow NCDDers to help me think about this concept further.

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Our 2010-11 Inclusive Social Media pilot funded by the Ford Foundation built a foundation for taking our inclusive online engagement work to the next stage. “Knowing” what we are experiencing requires a reflective evaluation....

At a At a time of unprecedented transformation in the Middle East a Multi-disciplinary, Multi-cultural Conference empowering the individual in society with effective, collaborative skills in dialogue and deliberation, compassionate interpersonal communication, assertive decision making, teamwork, leadership, negotiation, problem solving, mediation, conflict transformation, good governance, and sus

In a recent public planning workshop, one participant questioned the use of one scientific study over another.  A different person questioned the validity of the alternative study. Sides were pick...