After-Election Dialogue: Students Explore Differences

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Patricia Maulden
Patricia Maulden
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After-Election Dialogue: Students Explore Differences
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Publication: The Mason Gazette
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Published Date: November 10, 2008
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What motivated 58 students from 17 majors to gather last Thursday afternoon to talk about an election already debated for two years? Were two years of endless political debate not enough? Was it pizza? Their professors’ encouragement? The After-Election Dialogue, cosponsored by the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution Undergraduate Program, Dialogue and Difference Project, New Century College and the Mason Democracy Project, provided a different way to talk about what had just happened. The dialogue was not about debate or consensus. It was more about listening and sharing emotions.

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