Links

These links will lead you to webpages related to our project, or to sites we find insightful or interesting. They are not endorsed or maintained by CSB/SJU.

Catherine Patten, from the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, kicked off our project when she came to campus to speak in April. For more information about the Initiative:

http://www.nplc.org/commonground.htm

The Teagle Foundation provided the funding for this research project. For more information about the Teagle Foundation:

http://www.teaglefoundation.org/intro.htm

Glenn Hendler, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, has put together a website detailing the controversy at Notre Dame surrounding the production of the Vagina Monologues and the Queer Film Festival which have taken place there in previous years. This website provides links to various statements by President John Jenkins and the ensuing debate. To view this website:

http://www.nd.edu/%7Eghendler/AcademicFreedomND.html

The Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver is a conference center whose mission seeks to understand effective communication:

http://www.sfu.ca/dialog/

In the Difficult Dialogues project, funded by the Ford Foundation, we have found similarities to our own project. 27 institutions of higher education received grants of $100,000 each, to promote scholarly discussions of tough issues. $10,000 stipends were awarded to 16 other institutions for the same purpose:

http://www.fordfound.org/news/more/dialogues/index.cfm

The international institute for sustained dialogue seeks to transform discourse across disciplines through a five-stage process:

http://www.sustaineddialogue.org/

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