This just in via the The Democracy Imperative newsletter:
We’re happy to start the New Year with this announcement: the students who attended the No Better Time conference last July were inspired to take the initiative and host their own event, Connect the Dots: Public Dialogue, Deliberation, and Community Problem Solving & Action. If you missed NBT, you might want to attend this conference. And please send this out to students you think would be interested.The conference, which is being hosted by the David Mathews Center for Civic Life, will be March 3-6, 2010 in Clear Point, Alabama. If you check the conference web site, you will find links to the conference schedule, proposed workshops, and registration information. There will be workshops in models and methods of public dialogue and deliberation, facilitation, intergroup dialogue, leadership, social and political equity, Sustained Dialogue, National Issue Forums, organizing community-wide dialogue-to-change initiatives, issue framing, and more.The call for proposals deadline is February 1.We hope that campuses will send teams – and we’ll see you there
The conference goal is “to provide a forum for students learning about how to embed democratic practices in their everyday work and lives. These practices include public dialogue, deliberation, problem solving and action.”
The call for proposals lists the following areas of interest:
- Public Policy Making
- Community Building
- Community Organizing
- Community Values
- Intercultural Engagement\Relations
- Models & Approaches to Deliberative Democracy
- Peace & Conflict Studies
- Justice, Equity & Freedom
- Leadership
- E-democracy
- Strong Communities
- Civic Engagement
No Better Time was a great conference, and this “national student conference on public dialogue, deliberation, community problem solving and action” sure looks like an interesting follow-up.
Please leave a comment if you plan on going. Definitely leave a comment if you plan on doing something in the area of e-democracy.
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