facilitated dialogue facilitator facilitation conflict resolution conflict palestine israel minoritization dominant minoritized world in conversation public diplomacy inequity
Abstract:
Natural and created social inequities exist within every society that exists. A prime product of this inequity is conflict, a direct barrier to the social cohesiveness of any society. Inequity divides social groups into dominant and minoritized regarding different conflicts. However, while civilizations have progressed in many areas, conflict resolution is not one of them. This paper highlights facilitated dialogue as a novel approach to conflict resolution that deserves more attention. This paper also details a methodology of facilitated dialogue studied over three years as a part of World in Conversation | A Center for Public Diplomacy. It also examines a series of dialogues carried out regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as an example of facilitated dialogue in practice, highlighting the attitudinal changes of participants, points of conflict, major themes of discussion, and effects of the facilitator.
