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Resolving Community Conflicts and Problems: Public Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue

Roger Lohmann and Jon Van Til

Abstract

Public deliberation and group discussion can strengthen the foundations of civil society, even when the groups engaged in debate share a history of animosity. Scholars have begun to study the dialogue sustaining these conversations, especially its power to unite and divide groups and individuals. The book analyzes public exchanges and the nature of sustained dialogue within the context of race relations, social justice, ethnic conflicts, public-safety issues, public management, community design, and family therapy. They particularly focus on college campuses and the networks of organizations a ... More

Keywords: public deliberation, group discussion, civil society, animosity, race relations, social justice, ethnic conflicts, public-safety issues, open discussion

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9780231151689
Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231151689.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Roger Lohmann, editor

Jon Van Til, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Introduction

Roger A. Lohmann, Jon Van Til, and Dolly Ford

Section I Basic Statements

Introduction

1 The Structure of Sustained Dialogue and Public Deliberation

Jon Van Til

2 The Sustained Dialogue Model

Harold H. Saunders and Priya Narayan Parker

3 Sustained Dialogue in Action

Harold H. Saunders and Priya Narayan Parker

4 Sustained Dialogue and Public Deliberation

David Robinson

5 Let’s Talk

Lisa Bedinger

6 Deliberation, Dialogue, and Deliberative Democracy in Social Work Education and Practice

Roger A. Lohmann and Nancy Lohmann

Section II Sustained Dialogue in Practice

Introduction

7 Diving In

Teddy Nemeroff and David Tukey

8 Derry Exceptionalism and an Organic Model of Sustained Dialogue

Nick Acheson and Carl Milofsky

9 The Role of Dialogue in Achieving Social Justice at a Large Public University

Jennifer Mcintosh and Charles Morris

10 A Public Safety Process

James J. Nolan, Norman Conti, and Corey Colyer

11 Facilitating Neighborhood Growth

James J. Nolan, Jeri Kirby, and Ronald Althouse

Section III Public Deliberation in Practice

Introduction

12 The Deliberative Posture

David Ryfe

13 Public Deliberation and Dialogue in Public Management

David G. Williams

14 Deliberation and Dialogue and Commons Theory

Roger A. Lohmann

15 Question Mapping

Richard F. Ludeman and Erna Gelles

16 Applying Family Therapy Principles to the Body Politic Through Sustained Dialogue

Neal Newfield and Susan Newfield

Section IV Building Practice and Research

Introduction

17 Social Entrepreneurship in the Practice of Deliberation and Dialogue

Roger A. Lohmann

18 The Future of Deliberation and Dialogue Studies

Jon Van Til and Dolly Ford

End Matter

Contributors

Appendix Core Principles for Public Engagement

References

Index