Links

There is a significant and growing number of other organizations and ongoing activities concerned with democratic dialogue, public deliberation and discussion, and civic engagement.  While the specific discussion processes and objectives for most of other organizations differ in some ways from IF’s approach to facilitated, small-group discussion, we all share a broad commitment to strengthening our democracy through discussion, active citizenship, and participation by all people.

These are but a few of these other organizations and resources.

The National Coalition for Dialogue & Democracy (NCDD)
The Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC)
The Democracy Imperative (University of New Hampshire)
West Virginia Center for Civic Life
Center for Courage & Renewal
Democracy International
Everyday Democracy (formerly the Study Circles Resource Center)
National Issues Forums
The Kettering Foundation
Involve: Making participation count
AmericaSpeaks
Public Conversations Project
Appreciative Inquiry Commons (hosted by Case Western University)
Public Agenda
International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)
The Institute for Civic Discourse & Democracy (Kansas State University)
Civic Practices Network
The World Café
Center for Wise Democracy
Open Space World
CIRCLE:  the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (Tufts University)
Discussion as a Way of Teaching:  Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms (2005, 2nd edition, Broofield & Presskill)
Deliberation & the Work of Higher Education (2008, Kettering Foundation)
2009 Dialogue & Deliberation Practitioners Survey:  What is the State of the Field? (2009, Lee & Polletta)