Annotated list of Dialogue links: Semester in Dialogue

The Australian Centre for Dialogue is being established and modelled physically and functionally on the Wosk Centre and constructed on a high profile site in the Parliamentary Triangle of the capital city, Canberra. Operated by the Australian National University it will serve Australia and its Asia Pacific region and maintain close links with the Wosk Centre. Click on this link to access website and view the explanatory movie under 'media'.
 
A consulting and leadership program, Dialogos works with individuals and organizations to create containers for deep communication. They assist organizations to make visionary transitions - pragmatic changes to increase potential, evolve their business capabilities and to become viable leaders in making a better world. Dialogos specializes in facilitating conversations and training others to become facilitators. Dialogos consultants also design interventions in which dialogues are part of larger change processes. 
 
PCP promotes constructive conversations and relationships among people who have differing values, world views, and perspectives about divisive public issues. Their public conversation project trains dialogue facilitators in areas of Reflective Leadership, Dialogue Preparation, Constructive Dialogue, Inquiry as Intervention, Right Brain Consultation, and Interviewing Skills.
 
This organization, founded in 1927 as the National Conference on Christian and Jews, is a human relations organization dedicated to fighting bigotry, bias, and racism in America. NCCJ promotes understanding and respect among all races, religions and cultures hrough advocacy, conflict resolution and education.
 
Transcend is a peace and development network of scholar-practitioners doing action/training/research/dissemination This organization analyzes conflicts and designs methods of interventions that help reduce violence. Principles of dialogue and negotiation are used as a method of conflict transformation, the psychology of the dialogue process.
 
The mission of this organization is to improve the theory, teaching, and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution for constructive conflict resolution in interpersonal to international conflicts.
 
This group is no longer operating.
In the five years since CPRN opened its doors, nearly 1,000 people have participated in a roundtable, workshop, or an advisory committee meeting. Notably, CPRN has spearheaded community engagement in public policy issues based on the idea that public policy requires effective public engagement. The new network builds on CPRN's acknowledged experience in the field and various citizen engagement activities such as The Society We Want, Quality of Life in Canada, Asking Canadians What Matters on Aging, Citizens' Dialogue on the Future of the Health Care System and The Kind of Canada We Want.
 
The Study Circles Resource Center provides tools and resources to promote public deliberation and problem solving through dialogue.
 
ItrainOnline is a joint initiative of six organizations experienced in computer and Internet training in the South. It aims to assist civil society organizations and other development actors in developing countries to confront the challenges posed by new information technologies. One of its initiatives, Building Online Communities, helps groups choose the appropriate collaboration tools, develop facilitation techniques, and plan a strategy for successfully working online together.
 
Dialogue Between Nations is an interactive global communications network hosting an ongoing educational forum for the self-representation of the world's 300 million Indigenous Peoples and their nations in relation to the goals of the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations International Decade for Human Rights Education (1995–2004). The programming focuses on the points of view shared between visitors to the site in response to pre-recorded clips and statements by Indigenous individuals, official documents and other resources.
 
Peacemakers Trust is a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to research and education on conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
 
Based in Washington, DC, this organization seeks to transform the way in which the world deals with conflict—away from adversarial approaches, toward cooperative solutions. It works in partnership with Centre for Common Ground in Brussels.

Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC)
CDDC provides one of the world’s first university-based digital points-of-publication for new forms of scholarly communication, academic research, and cultural analysis. Its aim is to be open to all forms of cultural, ideological, methodological, and scientific discourse, while encouraging diversity, interdisciplinarity, and academic excellence.

YouCAN! is a nation-wide, youth-led organization dedicated to empowering youth and building a culture of peace among youth today. It explores the connection between conflict resolution and violence prevention. Through training workshops it provides youth with the skills and knowledge essential to making a real difference in their communities. The organization has launched an online international peacebuilding community.
 
Hosted by Templeton University, the Dialogue Institute works to transform the world into a global community by fostering interreligious and intercultural scholarship, understanding and cooperation. The website provides resources for those engaged in interreligious dialogue and action around the world.
 
NCDD is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and individuals who have collectively involved millions of citizens in public deliberation and civic engagement programs throughout the U.S. and internationally. Their website is a popular hub for practitioners and scholars in this emerging field, with hundreds of top-notch resources and interactive features, and their conferences are unique, highly participatory networking and learning events. NCDD is committed to uniting those who are actively practicing, promoting and studying transformational and collaborative communication processes.
 
The institute was founded by Daisaku Ikeda in 1996. The Research pages on this site provides information and papers arising from their research program: Globalization, Regionalization, and Democratization (GRAD): An Inter-Civilizational Dialogue and Research Project.

Future Search Network
The Future Search Network initiates future search conferences, innovative planning conferences used world-wide by hundreds of communities and organizations. The conferences meet two goals at the same time: helping large diverse groups discover values, purposes, and projects they hold in common; and enabling people to create a desired future together and start implementing right away.

NIF is a nationwide network of educational and community organizations that deliberate about nationwide issues. NIF publishes deliberation guides on such topics as Racial and Ethnic Tensions: What Should We Do?, Money and Politics: Who Owns Democracy?, and Violent Kids: Can We Change The Trend? Organizations who participate in NIF include educational institutions, leadership groups, civic groups, churches, libraries, senior centers, community groups, and youth groups. NIF is non-partisan and does not advocate a specific solution or point of view.
 
This is a research center that develops and promotes practical approaches to transforming violent ethnopolitical conflicts in peaceful ways. It publishes the Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation - a collection of articles designed to present state-of-the-art research and practice in conflict transformation.