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Citizen Assembly invites you to join us in the never-ending, limitless process of REAL deliberative democracy, thanks to the groundbreaking technology Egora, "The Worldwide Stock-Market of Ideas"! Egora-ILP.org With Egora...
The Up to Us Campus Competition for US college/university students is now accepting applications for the Spring 2022 cohort!This Up to Us competition is a great leadership development opportunity for...
Featuring: ● Canyon Brimhall, Federal Government Affairs Manager, R Street Institute ● Jerry Theodorou, Policy Director, Finance, Insurance and Trade, R Street Institute Social inflation, defined as loss cost inflation...
We choose films that address social, political or cultural issues that are relevant to society today. They may highlight liberal-leaning, conservative-leaning or independent themes, or feature actors or directors from...
Engage in this exciting webinar: Localizing UNSCR 1325 in the Context of Religion and Culture in Pakistan. This 90-minute conversation event will be on February 1st, 2022, at 9 am EST (UTC...
This is an opportunity to discern if you and your community are ready to consider reimagining safety and build on what you have already begun to pursue regarding peace creation,...
A coalition of diverse lawmakers from across Vermont just introduced S.229 to make Vermont the second New England state to adopt ranked choice voting in statewide elections. If passed, ranked...
Join Protect Democracy, Unite America, and R Street on Wednesday, February 2 at 12:00pm ET/ 9:00am PT for a discussion panel on how features of the U.S. electoral system are...
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is currently at a crossroads. Entrenched political forces could enshrine their rule for the foreseeable future by pushing through undemocratic election and redistricting changes in the...
Join our CPF Co-Directors and veteran political strategists Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy as they share their professional insights and discuss how to win friends and influence people in the...
Steven Pinker has argued in books such as The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now that we are living in a peak era of human progress, one that...
IS CONGRESS AS DYSFUNCTIONAL AS IT SEEMS? HEAR FROM TWO LEGISLATORS IN THIS CANDID CONVERSATION.From the outside, Congress appears broken. Bills get bogged down in partisan fights, leaders openly smear...
Issue One Founder and CEO Nick Penniman talks with authors Mark Bowden and Matt Teague on their new book The Steal – The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and...
Free Introduction and Orientation to Empathy Circle Facilitation Training: Come learn and practice the Empathy Circle process for addressing challenging topics. An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process based...
Free Introduction and Orientation to Empathy Circle Facilitation Training: Come learn and practice the Empathy Circle process for addressing challenging topics. An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process based...
Join us for canvassing at the Soda City Market in Columbia. We'll bring the clipboards and pens, you bring the enthusiasm and smiles!We'll be speaking to market goers about the...
In America, we like choice. Whether it’s where we shop, what we eat, or what we watch - the saying often goes “more choice is better.” So what about choosing...
Come meet other California activists who are working on making elections fair and representative with STAR voting! It's a voting method which prevents vote-splitting and gives everyone an equal vote....
Our monthly meeting where we bring American Promise to YOU. Each month, viewers will receive campaign updates from senior American Promise staff, shared strategies and success stories from our American...
Join New Hampshire Listens & Urban Rural Action's Dialogue Across Difference program. This will be an interactive Zoom workshop for college students in New Hampshire. Join us on Feb. 8,...
We host this training monthly. Living Room Conversations is focused on resources to help you stay connected. We are offering this training on how to organize and host your own...
The magic of appropriately sharing our feelings is hard to underestimate. Whether you are raising children, supporting parents, or working with adults who behave like children, you may see emotions...
Living Room Conversations is focused on resources to help you stay connected. We are offering this training on how to organize and host your own Living Room Conversation via video...
California is often praised as the "Golden State" with beautiful weather, a world-leading economy, top tier universities and corporations, and a rich, diverse culture. Yet many are leaving California for...
You’ve heard us say it: Crossing Party Lines is 100% volunteer run and donation supported. We’ve had people ask, “But you’re just talking, what is there for volunteers to do?”There’s...
Would you like to improve local elections with a voting method that doesn't split the vote? Join our monthly meeting for STAR Voting and Represent.Us!We will talk about:--Efforts to bring...
WHAT CAN BLACK HISTORY TEACH US ABOUT THE LEGACY & FUTURE OF CIVIL RIGHTS? GET INSIGHTS FROM PAST GUESTS.Black History Month is a celebration of the remarkable contributions of Black...
Engage in this exciting third webinar of the three-part webinar series on Gender. Each part is a separate event but all three comprise aspects of Gender and Mediation. This 90-minute conversation...
In this age of disinformation and political polarization, please join Christopher Celenza, Dean of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, for a discussion of our collective search for truth,...
Digital access to The New York Times can give your student body the diverse, unbiased information they need to develop educated perspectives, well-thought out arguments, and a balanced understanding of...
Free Introduction and Orientation to Empathy Circle Facilitation Training: Come learn and practice the Empathy Circle process for addressing challenging topics. An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process based...
Everyone and all points of view are welcome. Everyone will be heard to their satisfaction.WHYWe want to support democracy.Authoritarianism and tactics that undermine and destroy democracy are happening in the...
California’s Governor recently announced plans to dismantle the death row section of the San Quentin State Prison - bringing capital punishment into the conversation spotlight. Capital punishment, also known as...
Many years each voter typically has 2 or more opportunities to have their voice heard and hold their elected officials accountable. But in non-presidential elections participation in some municipalities can...
Join us for a workshop with Ayyu Qassataq about moving beyond land acknowledgements to support Indigenous communities now and into the future. In this session we will deepen the conversation...
Stand with Maine is for every individual who believes that big out-of-state donors should NOT decide Maine’s elections. Join our Stand with Maine Orientation Program on the second Monday and...
Registration for the next Moderator Training Session is now open. This “event” marks the last day to register.If you are ready to sign up for this training, please register at...
Since 2005 Aristotle’s Cafe has held free community discussions that provide the chance for diverse groups of strangers to come together and meet face-to-face. Creating an opportunity for prejudices and...
North Carolina Campus Compact and the Braver Angels Alliance of Central NC are hosting a live public forum featuring national expert, and Duke University professor, Chris Bail of The Polarization...
Using modules from the Council on Foreign Relations’ World101 website and timely pieces from The New York Times, we invite you to join for a lively facilitated conversation filled with...
Featuring: - Jumoke Dada, R Street Institute Making Space Project Manager and Founder, Tech Women Network - Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) pre-recorded - Tashya Denose, Senior Cybersecurity Analyst Manager, Capital...
NCoC Learning Circle: Examining Asset-Based Civic InfrastructureStrengthening our civic infrastructure - the scaffolding that provides all the ways people engage in public life - is a promising way to help...
The 2022 AAAS Communicating Science Seminar will be held virtually on Thursday, February 17 as part of the AAAS Annual Meeting. Attendance is free for this event: please sign-up through...
CAN OUR MILITARY HELP PROTECT THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY? GET INSIGHTS FROM A RETIRED GENERAL.The riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2020, and the deep partisan divide...
The major government trust funds for Social Security, Medicare, and Highway spending face insolvency in the next decade-and-a-half. Please join us for a virtual event to discuss the current status...
Join us on February 17, 2022 to hear David Thomson discuss his new book, Disaster Mon Amour with British writer and broadcaster Francine Stock. Co-sponsored with Braver Angels. "In this...
Free Introduction and Orientation to Empathy Circle Facilitation Training: Come learn and practice the Empathy Circle process for addressing challenging topics. An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process based...
Join us for canvassing at the Soda City Market in Columbia. We'll bring the clipboards and pens, you bring the enthusiasm and smiles!We'll be speaking to market goers about the...
Everyone and all points of view are welcome. Everyone will be heard to their satisfaction.WHYWe want to support democracy.Authoritarianism and tactics that undermine and destroy democracy are happening in the...
Welcome to the Democratic rEvolution!This is a session of real citizen democracy. We take turns presenting various ideas for how to improve our societies. We duly deliberate those ideas in...
Public schools in many states offer some form of sex education, but what it covers and when it’s given varies greatly. From abstinence to zygotes, elementary school to senior year...
How can we better maintain and create relationships and work towards healthy communities in spite of political differences? Is this even possible? This conversation allows us to start exploring how...
Evangelicals and Interfaith Engagement: Assessing Evangelical Resources, Motivations, Hesitancies and HopesEvangelical Christians play a critical role in shaping American civil society and culture, yet evangelicals as an identity group are...
How does racial injustice operate within the purportedly colorblind or race-neutral systems of prisons and policing in the United States? How did we get here, and how might we move...
LEARN THE SKILLS to bridge the identity, partisan and ideological divisions that dehumanize others and threaten our democracy. Hands Across the Hills has developed an intensive, three-day, in-person training program...
This Black History Month, we honor the incredibly rich history of Black pioneers in the field of health and wellness while also acknowledging that there is still work to be...
Curious what authentic community engagement looks like on a local level? Please join Everyday Democracy on Tuesday, February 22nd at 2:30pm EST for an in-depth discussion about how a recent...
ADP is excited to be partnering with Up to Us and Illinois State University, in conjunction with the Economic Literacy Project, to provide a virtual space for faculty, staff, and...
Advances in digital technologies over the past two decades have significantly influenced our behaviors and what and how we communicate, from our social lives to our politics. It's important that...
The White House and the Black Interfaith Project at IFYC Invite You to:A Celebration of Black Interfaith and Religious Diversity in Americawith Keynote by the Second Gentleman, Douglas EmhoffWashington, D.C. —...
The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too―and it is making...
Many authoritarian regimes around the world use policy-based strategies of social control in lieu of more coercive tools like repression. When these regimes fall to democracy, do authoritarian successors pay...
In the third event of the Democracy, Conflict, and Polarization Seminar Series, we present results from a study focused on one model of depolarizing partisans - reciprocal group reflection -...
Join the SNF Agora Institute for a discussion of the new book, "System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot," with authors Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami,...
Our communities need opportunities to process the personal and collective impact of emotionally charged events. From the effects of the pandemic and natural disasters to racism and sexual abuse to political...
Free Introduction and Orientation to Empathy Circle Facilitation Training: Come learn and practice the Empathy Circle process for addressing challenging topics. An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process based...
Everyone and all points of view are welcome. Everyone will be heard to their satisfaction.WHYWe want to support democracy.Authoritarianism and tactics that undermine and destroy democracy are happening in the...
What’s going on in the world of politics? Why does talking politics so often feel off limits or fraught with danger? How can we get back to the good old...
Stewardship is the practice of caring for all that God has given us. Our sense of stewardship is usually directed toward the environment and nature, finances, health, property, information–resources that...
This summit is focused on inviting youth (14-18), young adults (18-35), and people who work with that age group for an interactive convening. This will be a chance to hear...
The event is open to the public, but the event is specifically for teenagers and young adults to about age 24. As we approach voting age, teenagers become increasingly aware...
Join Urban Rural Action's Mid-Atlantic Dialogues Across Difference. This will be an interactive Zoom workshop for college students across the Mid-Atlantic. Join us on Feb 28, 2022 @ 11:30-1 EST...
Join us for a new webinar on Monday, February 28 at 5 PM! Together, FairVote, our partners, and supporters like you will make important strides this year. Learn about our...
"Conversation Collective is now offering an ongoing series focused on examining grief. Through mindfulness and breath practices, journaling, one-on-one conversation, and group check-in, we will gently explore the dimensions of...
The events in and around Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, TX in January 2022 could have been another story about the prejudice and deep division in our society - instead,...
In a provocative op-ed for The Washington Post, Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, argued that the United States is...
A coalition of diverse lawmakers from across Vermont just introduced S.229 to make Vermont the second New England state to adopt ranked choice voting in statewide elections. If passed, ranked...
Thanks to the internet, social media, and mobile devices, information and connection are at our fingertips. Yet, these same technologies are being leveraged to sow confusion, disruption and polarization. Recent...
Thanks to the internet, social media, and mobile devices, information and connection are at our fingertips. Yet, these same technologies are being leveraged to sow confusion, disruption and polarization. Recent...
CAN WE BALANCE PUBLIC SAFETY AND RE-ENTRY FROM PRISON? TWO LEADERS IN PRISON REFORM AND CORRECTIONS EXPLORE SOLUTIONS.America has the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Once people leave...
Russia has just launched an invasion of Ukraine, creating one of the worst security crises in Europe since World War II. How did this conflict erupt so quickly—or has it...
Put some purpose behind your social media posts by learning how these channels can let more people know about American Promise and how they can help advocate for the 28th...
Join us for canvassing at the Soda City Market in Columbia. We'll bring the clipboards and pens, you bring the enthusiasm and smiles!We'll be speaking to market goers about the...
Braver Angels builds civic skills and provides opportunities to practice those skills with other Americans like you. Participants in Braver Angels workshops will be better equipped to engage in critical...
Removing books from libraries and classrooms is nothing new, but a recent move by a Tennessee School District drew national attention after they removed a graphic novel about the Holocaust...
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was formed in 1949 to “guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.” More specifically, to “promote democratic values...
If the Citizen is to be the highest authority in democracy, should we not have office hours to make ourselves available and accountable to our fellow citizens? The answer is...