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Join the #RSAUS Deliberation Gateway Network to explore how deliberately fostering relationships across society could help foster global peace and wiser policies In the realm of deliberative democracy, this commitment to #nonviolence assumes a crucial role. By prioritizing #dialogue and #empathy, #deliberativedemocracy ensures that every voice resonates in a peaceful and respectful environment. This approach safeguards discussions from escalating into confrontations, thereby facilitating #consensus based power shifts and the emergence of effective global policies and decisions. Join event host Chris Imboden-Forman FRSA for an engaging panel discussion between April Chatham-Carpenter, Ph.D. ( Department chair I Professor I Regional lead I Podcast co-host), Roger Berkowitz ( Founder I Academic Director I Professor I Editor I Writer), and Lester Kurtz (Professor I Editor I Author) as they delve into the profound connections between nonviolence and deliberative democracy, illuminating the path towards a more inclusive and harmonious society. Register here: https://ow.ly/S0FU50QqrNe

I’m pleased to be a part of "Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation" edited by David Orr, published by @mitpress. My chapter is on "Children, Nature, and Democracy." The withdrawal of children and families from nature and their communities has taken a toll on our health and on democracy. In order to participate fully, people need to know their neighbors, human and other-than-human. They must have a sense of place and belonging. Information here: https://lnkd.in/ghv3RGD7.

Finally, some common sense on RGGI!!

🇺🇸 Are young people uniquely positioned to engage on the front lines, innovating and pushing for new forms of democracy? Or are they so frustrated with false promises of democracy that they are turning towards authoritarianism? SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and International Republican Institute explore these questions in this newly released report: https://buff.ly/3XnRNtZ

📣 Join Chief Network Weaver Julia Roig & Director for Race and Democracy Jarvis Williams at the upcoming conference at the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley for the session they are leading with Míriam Juan-Torres González and Kazu Haga: “We are facing a moment in history that requires us to develop new organizing modalities. We have to come together to BLOCK the threats we are facing to our democratic values, we need to BRIDGE across differences to foster broad-based movements with the widest participation, and we have to BUILD together the future we want to live within our communities. In the quest to realize belonging for all, protect democracy, and combat authoritarian populism, movements have to be and do several things at once: how do we step into the many paradoxes of being both in resistance and restorative? How do we stay future-oriented and hopeful while acknowledging and redressing past and current harms? Can we reconcile the need for spaciousness to envision the future we want to create and act with the urgency that the current threats demand? Sometimes, as a result of these tensions movements break internally, instead of navigating and, at times, embracing these tensions to achieve higher shared goals. In this session, we will interrogate these seeming tensions (some of which are false binaries) and collectively investigate how we can wrestle – in practice – with those paradoxes, allowing us to move forward together with the broadest participation possible along many lines of difference.” See you in Oakland!! https://lnkd.in/er4S5mWj

the Call for Papers for the 2024 ESOC Annual Meeting set to take place in October 17-19, 2024 at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. This year’s Annual Meeting will take as its theme “Hate and Conflict.” Papers are welcome that, inter alia, use new methodologies for tracking the sources and consequences of hate speech; examine contemporary drivers of ethnic and inter-group conflict, including climate change and migration; explore the continued salience of violent identity politics; and exploit experimental techniques aimed at countering hate speech and hate crimes. Papers that combine theory and empirics with actionable policy prescriptions are particularly welcome. However, papers on other topics will be given full consideration. The submission deadline for the full working papers is June 14, 2024.

🌍 Join us for a discussion on the state of global democracy informed by expert & public opinion data. Don't miss out on this insightful event shaping the #SummitForDemocracy plenary discussions, and deepening Global Democracy Coalition cooperation. Link 👉 bit.ly/4adXEoy Annika Silva-Leander, Seema Shah, Richard Wike, Katie LaRoque, Professor Staffan I. Lindberg

Happening now: Disicon 2023. We are thrilled to see the CSO and policy communities take up the framing of Gendered Disinformation, refocusing the narrative to address the global harm of this dangerous trend to individual and collective agency, and democracy as a whole. https://lnkd.in/dBmYMnrp

Are we really in a fight between democracy and authoritarianism? Go to the 22nd Century Initiative's blog, The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook, to get into the debate.

Finally. On this platform I try to stick as closely as possible to my area of expertise, which is language-based information systems, but this article by Jordan Petersen and Bjorn Lomburg prompts me to share it. Politicians, the media, and other heavily invested self-interests screaming at each other from their safely insulated bully pulpits have turned the middle ground of what was once called 'reasonable debate' into the modern equivalent of no-man's land in WWI. Same tragic results. Have a read, and if the idea of turning down the volume, toning down the rhetoric and instead dealing first with solvable problems and practical timelines and objectives on the rest of them, please re-post it. http://bitly.ws/RxLs