Resolving community conflicts and problems [electronic resource] : public deliberation and sustained dialogue / edited by Roger A. Lohmann and Jon Van Til.

Resolving community conflicts and problems [electronic resource] : public deliberation and sustained dialogue / edited by Roger A. Lohmann and Jon Van Til.

9780231525282 (electronic bk.)
9780231151689

New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]

©2011

English

1 online resource (xiv, 368 pages) : illustrations

HM1126 .R46 2011eb

303.6/9

Public deliberation and group discussion can strengthen civil society, even when participants share a historical animosity. Recently, scholars have begun to study the dialogue that sustains these conversations, especially its power to unite and divide. In these twenty-four essays, contributors read public exchanges and their sustained dialogue in the context of race relations, social justice, ethnic conflicts, public safety, public management, community design, and family therapy. They especially focus on the college campus and its network of organizations and actors, in which open discussion might seem like an idealistic if not foolhardy gesture, but nevertheless is a crucial component of civic harmony.

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