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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

Is searching for justice futile in today's world? My latest Fair Observer article discusses: World News Is the Search for Justice Futile in Today’s Tyrannical Climate? Governments and politicians ignore aggrieved citizens. Corporations abuse employees and customers on a colossal scale. Megalomaniacal repression and slaughter are engulfing whole nations, ethnicities, and religions. Amoral calculation and organized infamy, applauded by leaders, all abound in the 21st century. What hope is there for justice? By Alan Waring   https://lnkd.in/e_M5drTJ

How do we overcome the #political barriers that are holding back #climateaction? Book now for the #LCAW2024 State of #ClimatePolitics Forum at https://lnkd.in/eu2tBTMS

The full and final version of the #JusticeVisions conference program is now available online. We will focus on how victims navigate participation eco-systems in their struggle for accountability, truth, repair, non-recurrence, memorialization, redress, and disruption of a harmful status quo. The conference will bring together scholars and practitioners working on topics related to justice-seeking trajectories of conflict-affected individuals and groups, from the Global South and North. Find out more: https://shorturl.at/eiqEO

Check out this helpful resource from Polarization Research Lab that cuts through the headlines to provide hard data on polarization, bipartisanship, support for political violence and more. https://lnkd.in/e_yeFERr

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.

From a limited role envisioned by the framers to the dominant force it is today, the American presidency has undergone significant changes. Read more about the relationship between Congress and the Presidency from our Issue Perspective partner, the American Enterprise Institute, and discover how that impact is currently being discussed on Capitol Hill. https://lnkd.in/eb7TfDGV

EARLY VIEW & OPEN ACCESS Interested in understanding how rising partisan polarization in Congress shapes the dynamics of the American policy process? Click to read the FULL article: https://lnkd.in/gyTGUj4K #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

A new report from SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and More in Common aims to re-invigorate discussion about a paradigm that long served to strengthen democracy, but which has fallen out of fashion the past several decades. Learn more about how by investing in the design and distribution of civic infrastructure, communities can cultivate the capabilities of their residents to work across lines of difference to solve public problems.  Report: https://lnkd.in/dybHgc5s Substack: https://lnkd.in/d9E8YG9M

Institutions, Experts & the Loss of Trust (Dædalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences)- PDF: https://lnkd.in/g2a85KCp Institutions are critical to our personal and societal well-being. They develop and disseminate knowledge, enforce the law, keep us healthy, shape labor relations, and uphold social and religious norms. But institutions and the people who lead them cannot fulfill their missions if they have lost legitimacy in the eyes of the people they are meant to serve. Americans’ distrust of Congress is long-standing. What is less well-documented is how partisan polarization now aligns with the growing distrust of institutions once thought of as nonpolitical. Refusals to follow public health guidance about COVID-19, calls to defund the police, the rejection of election results, and disbelief of the press highlight the growing polarization of trust. But can these relationships be broken? And how does the polarization of trust affect institutions’ ability to confront shared problems, like climate change, epidemics, and economic collapse? This Dædalus issue is made possible, in part, by a generous gift from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which supports a more effective democracy in America by investing in journalism, community, arts, and research in the areas of media and democracy.