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Deliberative Democracy | Bulletin vol.2 no. 2, February 5, 2003
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1 | National Assembly Kicks off Missouri Dialogues on Workforce Development
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Greenville, Mississippi’s Higher Education Center hosted the first of a series of community dialogues on workforce development on Friday, January 24, 2003. The event was organized by The American Assembly and Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE) and was co-sponsored by Alcorn State University, the Mississippi Development Authority , and Mississippi Valley State University. Community leaders, concerned citizens, elected officials, and educators came together to discuss the complexities of the issue and offer solutions.
Governor Ronnie Musgrove and Rep. Bennie Thompson addressed the diverse group of More than 100 participants and offered their support of the dialogue's goal: to combat unemployment and other problems that plague the Delta by creating a well-trained workforce, an educated constituency, and a healthy economy.
For more information visit <http://www.unitingamerica.org>
2 | By the People: A Deliberative Poll on America’s Role in the World
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By the People: America in the World, a new initiative of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, aims to energize and enhance the national conversation on America's role in the world through a series of national and local broadcasts and events that demonstrate the relevance of foreign policy issues to local concerns. The project includes three national PBS specials, two cycles of local programming to be produced by PBS stations in cooperation with community organizations, national and local forums for civic dialogue, and an interactive web site.
By the People's goal is to create a wide range of opportunities for citizens to debate and discuss the necessary trade-offs and compromises involved in making foreign policy decisions.
This national initiative kicked of with a kinetic gathering of more than 350 citizens in Philadelphia January 10-12, participants in a national ‘ deliberative’ poll. The deliberative poll, developed by Dr James Fishkin of the University of Texas-Austin, seeks to determine how a random, scientific sample of citizens thinks about issues when they have had adequate opportunity to become informed. This group represents what the public would think if they had a similar opportunity to learn more about an issue.
For more information about By the People visit <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/btp/about.html>
For more information about the results of the deliberative poll, visit <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/btp/poll-shifts.html>
3 | Discussion, Dialogue, and Deliberation: Three-D Teaching and Learning
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The Society for Values in Higher Education invites you to join a small, working group, Discussion, Dialogue, and Deliberation: Three-D Teaching and Learning, April 2-4, 2003 at the Trinity Conference Center in Cornwall, CT. This small (30 to 40 people) working group will focus on democratic dialogue as pedagogy and a model for institutional leadership; linking theory and practice; and research, assessment, and scholarship.
We seek faculty and academic leaders across disciplines who are interested in joining a growing network of academics committed to advancing democratic pedagogy and leadership in higher education.
For more information, please visit <http://istprojects.syr.edu/~svhe/svheDVP2/AprilNarrative.html>
4 | 7th International Conference of Human Services IT Applications
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The theme of this year’s conference is Information and Communication Technology and Social Inclusion (Hong Kong, 8/25-28), with three sub-themes: ICTs in Social Services and Social Work Practices; ICTs in Social Work/Social Service Training and Education; and ICT in Community and Digital Inclusion. There is potentially and opportunity to speak to the power of citizen participation through online deliberation within eGov and Civil Affairs subgroups.
For more information, visit <http://www.hkcss.org.hk/husita7/theme.htm>
5 | 2003 ACR Environmental Public Policy Section Conference
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At last year's ACR Environmental Public Policy Section Conference in Tucson, Ariz., members noted that while recent meetings have had a decided environmental focus and have been held in beautiful suburban and rural locations, our goals needed to be expanded. Our past conferences have not attracted diverse populations. Our meeting attendees were homogeneous, despite a Section goal and an ACR goal of working to build diversity in our membership. Skilled practitioners in many public policy arenas are conducting agreement-seeking collaborative processes, yet many do not identify with the conflict resolution field and have not attended past conferences.
To concentrate on our goal of attracting a diverse membership, we decided hold our next meeting in an urban location. We will focus on the challenges and opportunities in urban public policy conflicts and other non-environmental public policy arenas that intersect frequently with issues of race and culture.
For more information visit <http://www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/epp03>
6 | Symposium on the Deliberative Position in Public Debate
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This international symposium is held by the CEDP (Center for the Study of Public Debate), a university research team in Information and Communication Sciences & Political Science, on May 14, 15 and 16, 2003, and it is hosted by François-Rabelais University, the University Institute of Technology and Tours town-hall (France). The symposium aims to bring together academia members and professionals, from many parts of the globe and from various fields of specialization, to participate in sharing ideas and discussing deliberative aspects and the nature of diverse public debate processes and experiments.
For more information visit <http://net.iut.univ-tours.fr/recherche/appel/english/callindex.htm>
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