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ICDD Hosts Public Issues Education and Facilitation Workshop

K-State Engagement E-News, July 2007 (PDF)

The Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy (ICDD) hosted a facilitation workshop from June 11-13. Eighteen community leaders from Kansas, Nebraska, and North Dakota representing university faculty, extension service, local government, and private business attended the workshop. The workshop addressed managing community dialogue on public issues.

The workshop was highlighted by a keynote address from Andrew Sachs, founder of the public disputes program at the Dispute Settlement Center, North Carolina. Mr. Sachs spoke of the importance of public issues dialog at this precarious time in our country’s social history.

Another highlight of the workshop was a public forum held at the Beach Museum of Art on the K-State campus. Thirty community citizens gathered to talk with one another about issues of national security and America’s response to outside threats.

To read more about the engaged work of ICDD, see the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy.