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Diasporas in Dialogue
Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation in Worldwide Refugee Communities
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Diasporas in Dialogue
Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation in Worldwide Refugee Communities
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Diasporas in Dialogue is an indispensable guide for those leading or participating in dialogue processes, especially in ethnically diverse communities. The text offers both a theoretical and practical framework for dialogue, providing insight into the needs, assets and challenges of working in this capacity.
- The first book to offer structured processes for dialogue with refugee communities - demonstrates how diaspora communities can be engaged in dialogue that heals, reconciles and builds peace
- Relates the story of the Portland Diaspora Dialogue Project, a remarkable collaboration between university researchers and African community activists committed to helping newly arrived refugees
- Written accessibly to provide practitioners, academics, and community members with a simple and cogent account of how, step by step, the process of healing communities and re-building can begin
Published at a critical time in the face of the worldwide refugee crisis, and offers helpful frameworks and practical tools for dialogue in situations where individuals and communities are displaced
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DIALOGUE
He who knows only one side of a thing, knows little of thatâ AFRICAN PROVERB
Barbara Tint
Julie Koehler
Mary Lind
Vincent Chirimwami
Roland Clarke
Mindy Johnston
Julie Koehler
Mary Lind
Vincent Chirimwami
Roland Clarke
Mindy Johnston
In developing our community collaboration, our decision to create and facilitate dialogue processes was based on a belief in dialogue as a transformational tool for peacebuilding and reconciliation. Peacebuilding dialogue is a form of group interaction with a particular intent, purpose, and process: members of conflicted groups come together in the aftermath of deepârooted and historical fragmentation toward the goals of engaging in safe space and community conversations. In many communities where there has been longstanding conflict or trauma between groups, dialogue has been used to provide a safe and structured process for fractured parties. Out of these processes, there is often (but not always) increased mutual understanding, healing, reconciliation, and action for the future. This chapter will explore both the theoretical and practical dimensions of dialogue as a tool in community reconciliation, and provide a recommended model and framework for dialogue with diaspora communities.
Definition and Principles of Dialogue
Derived from the Greek term dialogos â dia meaning âthroughâ and logos meaning âthe wordâ â dialogue speaks to the flow of exchange through words. At its most fundamental, dialogue refers to parties coming together with the goal of increased mutual understanding. Though dialogue can occur between individuals or groups of various parties, in peacebuilding work, it is most commonly used as an intergroup process between members of conflicted societies. Dialogue processes derive from the principles behind the contact hypothesis (Allport, 1954), which proposes that one of the most successful ways to reduce intergroup conflict, prejudice, and enmity is positive intergroup contact. This contact must be implemented through carefully considered mechanisms that allow the group interactions to successfully transcend the personal, social, and politically informed barriers that keep groups in conflict.
Defining dialogue is a challenging task, as the word is used in so many ways to mean so many different things. For our purposes, we assert that dialogue is a safe, intentional, constructed process that is based on certain principles, methods, and goals, which are rooted in the desire to develop mutual understanding and an enhanced relationship. These principles, methods, and goals will be elaborated on later in this chapter. The aim is that through these intentional, structured, and safe contact experiences, parties engage in ways that shift the relationship of enmity and reduce the power of competing social identities. One definition suggests that intergroup dialogue is âa form of democratic practice, engagement, problem solving, and education involving faceâtoâface, focused, facilitated and confidential discussions occurring over time between two or more groups of people defined by their different social identitiesâ (Schoem, Hurtado, Sevig, Chesler, and Sumida, 2001, p. 6). Saunders suggests that dialogue is âa process of genuine interaction through which human beings listen to each other deeply enough to be changed by what they learnâ (2001, p. 82). Feller and Ryan (2012) address the critical aspect of understanding and defining dialogue as a very particular dimension to peacebuilding work that includes efforts toward coexistence, relational movement, encountering the other, challenging assumptions, using creative and flexible approaches to group conflict, and implementing holistic interventions.
Contrary to debate, where parties are trying to persuade, convince, or win, dialogue operates as a safe space to explore difficult...
Table of contents
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ABOUT THE PARTNERS
- FOREWORD
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 01 DIASPORA STORIES
- 02 DIASPORA POPULATIONS
- 03 THE TRANSITION FRAMEWORK
- 04 RECRUITMENT
- 05 CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS
- 06 DIALOGUE
- 07 EVALUATION
- 08 IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY
- 09 DIASPORA STORIES
- 10 CLOSING REFLECTIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT