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Susan Collin Marks of Search for Common Ground: Media & Peace
Susan Collin Marks is the Senior Vice President of Search for Common Ground (SFCG). In this interview with the European Journalism Centre, she describes some of the goals of SFCG and specific projects involving popular media to reach millions of people in war-torn countries.
The mission of Search for Common Ground, founded in 1982, is nothing [...]
Community and Technical Knowledge in Public Involvement
Public involvement sometimes presents a stark contrast between community and technical knowledge. Often public agency representatives, with the best intentions of gathering information about local concerns, may arrive at a community meeting, make a presentation, but find itself facing a lot of frustrated and angry people. The meeting might end with members of the community [...]
Who Are You? Identity Across Cultures
In cross-cultural settings, leaders who convene collaborative processes, as well as practitioners who mediate and facilitate them, may find themselves identified not by their current roles or personalities but by a history of conflict they had nothing to do with.
Some years ago, I was visiting a Native American community along the Colorado River in Arizona. [...]
