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Dialogue In/As Action 2009 Conference
The 2009 Network for Peace through Dialogue conference, "Dialogue In/As Action," was a NYC Conference for Community Groups, Peace Workers, Practitioners, Researchers, Teachers, Students and Anyone who struggles to bring people with different view points together. The conference featured a a special opening session with Geraldine Ferraro, was held June 12-June 13, 2009 at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY.
The 2009 Network for Peace through Dialogue conference, "Dialogue In/As Action," focused on the rich intersections of the methods, processes, and actions of dialogue that lead to change. The 2009 conference explored the ground rules for practicing good dialogue, as well as the parameters for putting constructive dialogue into action. The goals of the 2009 conference were to provide a forum for addressing and discussing the following issues:
- Change generated through dialogue
- The preconditions of dialogue and how they can be fostered
- Cases of dialogue IN ACTION, AS ACTION
- Cases of dialogue across ethnicity, nationalities, and religious beliefs
- Using technology to facilitate dialogue
- Voices of youth making change (presentations by youth)
Sessions
1st SESSION: 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM
- Complete Don't Compete! A New Approach to Dialoguing with Conflict | East Side Institute
- A Relational Mindful Awareness Practice | Dr. Marvin Belzer
- Youth Dialogue for Human Rights | Global Kids Inc.
- Achieving Transformation: Dialogue through Music | Riverbrook Residence for Women
- Healing a Nation: The Place for Dialogue in Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Liberia | Mediators Beyond Borders
2nd SESSION: 10:45 AM- 12:15 PM
- Armenian/Turkish Dialogue: Lessons Learned | Dr. Ani Kalayjian
- Israeli & Palestinian Voices From the Field | An interactive workshop using Just Vision's Online Portraits of Peacebuilders
- Reflective Practice – Being Peace In Order To Bring Peace | Consensus
- Successful Dialogues Require More than Talking and Technique | Richmond Dialogue Community
- Is Dialogue with Evil Possible? | Marymount Manhattan College: Professor Bradley Herling
LUNCH 12:15 PM- 1:30 PM
3rd SESSION: 1:30 PM- 2:30 PM
- Setting the Conditions for Dialogue in State Level Policy Discussion
- Dialogue & Its Prerequisites in an Inmate Setting
- Structuring Dialogue for Youth Peacebuilding & Leadership Programs
- The Arts and Civic Dialogue - Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities
- Lessons from Online Dialogue: The Shaping Our Future Experience
4th SESSION: 2:45 PM- 4:15PM
- Convicted Civility in Religious Dialogue: A Mormon/Evangelical Case Study
- Ten Techniques to Have Talks with Teens
- De-Polarizing the Clash: 20,000 Dialogues using Documentaries about Muslims to Build Greater Understanding
- Moving from Dialogue to Action
- Qualitative and Quantitative Measures of Conversational Effectiveness
- Jewish and Palestinian New Yorkers Breaking Down Walls: Building Sustained Dialogue as the Foundation for Activism
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