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Building Community through Public Deliberation

Place: University of Hawai‘i Mãnoa Campus Center
Date: September 19 - 20, 2003
Co-sponsors: College of Social Sciences Center on Public Policy
                      Hawaii Community Services Council
                      Program on Conflict Resolution

Time: Friday September 19
          8:30 am Registration
          9:00 am - 4:00 pm Training Workshop Part I
          Continental breakfast and lunch provided
          Saturday September 20
          9:00 am - 4:00 pm Training Workshop Part II
          Continental breakfast and lunch provided

Details: This workshop offers training sessions that provide an opportunity to gain understanding, skill and practice in deliberative decision making. National Issues Forums is a proven format used nationally and internationally to convene constructive deliberative forums in communities, organizations and among individuals on a wide range of public policy issues. Workshop participants will observe and participate in dialogues and forums; become acquainted with available National Issues Forums (NIF) materials; understand the connection of what people value to choices about issues, and appreciate the importance of deliberation in identifying the public's perspective; practice moderating forums and study circles; and discuss how to organize NIF programs in their communities. We will be using these NIF Discussion guides in the training:

Illegal Drugs: What Should We Do Now?
Examining Health Care: What's the Public Prescription?
A Nice Place to Live: Creating Communities

For more information about National Issues Forums go to http://www.nifi.org
or about the workshop contact Dolores Foley at (808) 956-2780.

Focus Areas

Building Community through Public Deliberation