Where: Dialogue Society, London
Time: 6:45pm
Panellists:
Panellists will bring their knowledge and experience of dialogue-related movements and other social movements to a discussion of what movements are, what they can achieve and how they become powerful. Discussion will include the advantages and potential drawbacks of identifying with a broader movement.
Questions to be considered:
A series of panel discussions examining the question of how to make intercultural dialogue work. Those working with intercultural and interreligious dialogue at the community or professional level face a range of challenges regarding its effectiveness. We are asked, or ask ourselves, such questions as:
This series is intended to occasion focused and constructive discussion of such questions among a range of people concerned with relationships between different cultural, religious or social groups, in their professional lives or at the community level.
Findings and conclusions will be published. It is hoped that the series will be replicated at three independent UK branches of the Dialogue Society, allowing us to draw on a wider range of perspectives in collating findings.
1. "Effectiveness" in Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue: Can it be defined? How do we measure it?
30/11/2010
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2. Effectiveness at the grassroots: seeking the personal and the genuine
07/12/2010
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3. Effectiveness in dialogue for conflict transformation
14/12/2010
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4. Skills in dialogue: cultivating effective listening and empathy.
09/02/2011
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5. Becoming a dialogue movement: what can dialogue learn from other movements?
02/03/2011
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6. Preaching to the unconverted: how can dialogue reach the disengaged, the prejudiced and the hostile?
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Guests are warmly invited to attend as many of the sessions as possible to contribute to an ongoing process of focused reflection over the course of the series.
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