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Coping With the Cost of Health Care:
What Is The Public Voice?
Video Podcast
"We can improve the conversation and that directly impacts people's lives."
Martin Carcasson
DDEX
Ibtesam, Rhanda Slim
Mideast Network
"In our research, we look at what ideas community leaders have about the role of the public in deliberating issues and forming policy."
Alberto Olivas
"When I'm working with the different Pacific Island communities, I must make sure that their way of being is always respected and regarded."
Moerangi Falaoa
"You can't sustain an urban community without the voice of its citizens."
Louise Spiegel
"Students have more of a sense that 'maybe we can do that, too.'"
Katy Harriger
Podcasts
David Mathews discusses Education Research
Speaking of Politics Interview
Harold Saunders, Director of International Affairs
Contact Dr. Saunders
Harold Saunders, as director of international affairs at the Kettering Foundation, plays a key role in the foundation's international studies. These have included the Dartmouth Conferences, the US/China dialogue, and the International Civil Society Exchange.
Dr. Saunders is the architect of
Sustained Dialogue
, “a public peace process” designed to change relationships among those in deep-rooted human conflicts. As chairman and president of the
International Institute for Sustained Dialogue
(IISD), he conducted peace-making and peace-building dialogues during and following the civil war in Tajikistan, 1993-2007, as well as a three-year dialogue to improve relationships between the Muslim Arab heartland and the West. IISD is currently conducting a dialogue with participants from Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh, as well as a dialogue on national reconciliation with participants from across the political spectrum in Iraq. IISD continues to transfer Sustained Dialogue to the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, and is the institutional base for the
Sustained Dialogue Campus Network
, now operating on some 16 high school and college campuses.
Dr. Saunders is the author of
A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts
(NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999) and
Politics Is about Relationship: A Blueprint for the Citizens’ Century
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).