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07/22/2008

Article Comparing Face-to-Face and Online National Issues Forums (NIF)

07/05/2008

Presidential Libraries to Host National Issues Forums Between Labor Day and Election Day This Fall

07/03/2008

Call for Applications - $2,500 Fielding Certificate Program Sponsorships

06/25/2008

New Issue-in-Brief Available - Coping With the Cost of Health Care: How Do We Pay for What We Need?

06/21/2008

Coming to Judgement - Watch Videos of Washington, DC Programs about Public Deliberation

06/18/2008

Russell Library Informal Forums

06/16/2008

Public Engagement: A Primer from Public Agenda

06/12/2008

"Brave New South" - A 2008 Report on the Future of the South

06/11/2008

Workshop on Deliberation Presented at Summit on Political Engagement

06/06/2008

Informal Forums Series at the Russell Library, Athens, Georgia

05/28/2008

Fielding Graduate University - Invitation to Certificate Program in Dialogue, Deliberation, and Public Engagement

05/27/2008

April-May, 2008 Issue of Dialogos from the Institute for Civic Discourse & Democracy

05/26/2008

U.S. and Costa Rican Students - Symposium in Costa Rica and Plans to Frame International Issue of Water Use

05/25/2008

Health Care Video Screened at Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum

05/24/2008

Deliberating in Grade School - Read an Interview with Cristina Alfaro