WHAT WE DO
For Youth
For Communities
For Facilitators
On-line
Special Programs
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For Youth
Confronting Concerns
Confronting Concerns program of the Network for Peace through Dialogue works with youth in Harlem helping them to identify what their concerns are for themselves and their world and to understand their causes and to seek solutions for them. Inspiring leadership among youth, the Confronting Concerns project in 2008 initiated a program titled the Leadership Institute. This Institute focuses on training selected teen youth leaders in facilitation and workshop development and helps them move into roles as workshop facilitators for other youth.
» See Current Program
» See Past Program Reports
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For Communities
Living Room Dialogues
“The beauty of a Living Room Dialogue is that important shifts happen when you least expect it.” That’s what a participant said about her experience at a Network for Peace-organized Living Room Dialogue on migration. The concept is deceptively simple: ordinary people gather in a room (often a living room) to share experiences or thoughts around an issue. The evening is facilitated by a Network staff member and at times a special guest may contribute to the evening. This dialogue format, developed by the Network, is designed to be inclusive and accessible to people with a variety of education levels. It addresses the issues people face in their community and is based on the lived experience of those participating in the learning. The goal of a Living Room Dialogue is to expand the participants’ understanding about a particular issue.
» See Full Program Description
» See Past Program Reports
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For Facilitators
Dialogue Facilitators Networking Group
A Skill Building Course for Dialogue Facilitators
“Due to a funding crisis, unfortunately, the DFNG II program has been cancelled. Please check back for future opportunities!”
The Dialogue Facilitators Networking Group (DFNG) is a monthly, six-session program designed to run October 2009 - March 2010. DFNG II will bring together fifteen New York City-area dialogue practitioners drawn from the United Nations, its agencies and accredited non-governmental organizations as well as the New York City-based professional dialogue community. DFNG II is a hybrid training ground and support group which prepares practitioners better to navigate their professional lives and to understand more clearly the importance of their work to society as a whole. It will include skill-building reviews and exercises, discussions about different methodologies and meaty consultation on how to have disagreement and confrontation without being destructive. A professional writer will be contracted who will develop a book based on the sessions.
» Contact us to request an application for the program
» See for more information on upcoming session
» See information on book published from 1st DFNG Group
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On-line
Shaping Our Future
Shaping Our Future, one of the Network for Peace’s longest running dialogue programs, is an on-line experience recently redesigned to allow participants an opportunity to engage with concrete issues facing their own lives. To that end, potential program participants submit topic ideas to the session moderator. Topics can include anything from neighborhood conflicts to structural violence or systemic issues that community members may face. Submitted ideas are then developed by the moderator working with the person who proposed the topic into in a final question or questions which are distributed to the dialogue participants along with resource materials which provide the dialoguers a shared understanding of some of the common thinking around an issue. Next, via a googlegroup, for approximately two months, participants dialogue about the issue at large sometimes offering practical suggestions from their own experience on improving the particular situation being discussed. Recent topics have included “What was your experience of migration?” and “Do people need to have enemies?”
Please click on the following link to register your interest and/or to propose a dialogue! We look forward to hearing from you!
» Click here for more information on upcoming forums.
» Click here to register, to suggest a topic, or both.
Once you’re registered, you will be able to read the dialogue archives and submit your own thoughts to the group via e-mail.
» See Past On-line Reports
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Special Programs
Seven Core Principles for Public Engagements
 Network for Peace through Dialogue joins the International Association for Public Participation, the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, and America Speaks as early endorsers of the “Seven Core Principles for Public Engagement” document, a collaboratively developed document which outlines principles that when adhered to in public policy discourse create conditions for authentic engagement. We are pleased to be associated with this initiative and welcome any feedback you may have.
» See Seven Core Principles for Public Engagement
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2009 Dialogue In/As Action Conference
 On June 12 & 13, 2009, The Network for Peace through Dialogue, in cooperation with Marymount Manhattan College, presented: “Dialogue In/As Action," a conference focused on the rich intersections of the methods, processes and actions of dialogue that lead to change. The 2009 conference exploree the ground rules for practicing good dialogue, as well as the parameters for putting constructive dialogue into action.
»see Marymount Manhattan conference report
» see conference information
» see conference session descriptions
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