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To ring in the new year, join Braden Paynter, Director of Methodology, as he leads a short discussion on the best of what didn’t work in 2022 in order to identify new and more effective strategies moving into 2023.
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A Front Page Dialogue guide centered on helping audiences have productive conversations around #MeToo and women’s narratives at museums. View the resource here.
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A Front Page Dialogue guide centered on helping audiences have productive conversations around guns and second amendment rights in America. View the resource here.
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A Front Page Dialogue guide centered on helping audiences have productive conversations on women and voting rights. To access the guide, click here.
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Una guía de Diálogo de Primera Plana en español destinada a facilitar conversaciones productivas sobre Covid-19. Vea el recurso aquí. A Front Page Dialogue guide…
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Learn strategies for avoiding careless commentary and effectively engaging with it when it does occur. View the resource here.
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Learn strategies facilitators, activists, and thought leaders can use to deepen conversations at your site or organization. View the resource here.
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Hear from Braden Paynter, Director of Methodology, as he shares strategies for engaging staff and visitors in dialogue in digital spaces. View the resource here.
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This session will briefly share frameworks for analyzing how museums and historic sites can navigate partisan divides. View the resource here.
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Learn the ways you can avoid and confront problematic language in terms in museum collections and archives. View the resource here.
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Presenters consider dialogue used by Sites of Conscience to examine what is necessary for dialogue to be effective. View the resource here.
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Braden Paynter, Director of Methodology and Practice, facilitates a dialogue on the challenges Covid-19 poses to members. View the resource here.
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Estrategias de diálogo en espacios digitales a medida que se exploran nuevas plataformas para fomentar el cuidado y la comprensión. Vea el recurso aquí.
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Director of Methodology and Practice Braden Paynter offers strategies for engaging staff and visitors in dialogue in digital spaces. View the resource here.
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This webinar explores a variety of tools to draw on when comments from visitors or other stakeholders are harmful or elevate tensions. View the resource…
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Involucrar al público en conversaciones difíciles y controvertidas no es fácil, pero a menudo necesario. Encuentra como hacerlo en esta sesión. Vea el recurso aquí.
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Methodology and Practice Director Braden Paynter shares tools to navigate difficult histories through dialogue-based programming. View the webinar here.
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A dialogue guide, written in 2020, on helping communities cope with the challenges posed by Covid-19. View the resource here.
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A dialogue guide, written in 2020, intended to assist museum professionals lead productive conversations on race and policing in the aftermath of the killing of…
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THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR JUSTICE, TRUTH, AND RECONCILIATION French and English This toolkit, Violence Prevention and Dialogue, was managed by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC)…
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Asociacion Caminos de la Memoria – El Ojo que Llora El presente informe narra la experiencia recogida en la implementación del proyecto CONSTRUYENDO UN DIÁLOGO…
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WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Sites of Conscience “engage the public in programs that stimulate dialogue on pressing issues.” This toolkit illustrates how one site…
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NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY In partnership with Newcastle University, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience provided eight post-graduate students with the opportunity to explore ways that…
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NATIONAL MUSEUMS NI This case study provides a summary and evaluation of the work on ‘The Troubles and Beyond’ project between the years of 2014…
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NATIONAL MUSEUMS NI This evaluation of The Troubles and Beyond explores the methodology behind the curation of the collection. The approach is described as being…
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A program created by Coalition member State of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, Speaking of Immigration encourages participants to explore how personal values and assumptions about immigrants shape U.S. immigration policy. The guide provides guidelines and questions for facilitators using historical context as a starting point for the discussion on immigration policy.
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In 2014, Cultural Heritage without Borders began implementation of the project “Sharing Stories, Shaping the Future: Dialogues for Spaç,” with the support of the Coalition. The reports included here document a series of three dialogue-centered planning workshops held with individual and institutional stakeholders to: deepen knowledge and understanding of the Spaç prison as a monument and symbol of the heritage of the Communist regime, propose several functions for the site and to develop a concrete action plan to give life to the chosen proposed functions.
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This report synthesizes observations and interviews completed in evaluating the 2016 Eastern State Penitentiary exhibit, Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Incarceration. This report includes sample observation forms and interview questions, data results, and summaries of the evaluation findings.
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Created by Coalition member, the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) and World Comics India (WCI), this publication features eight-page comics, written by and for the Galle District of Sri Lanka, as a means of fostering meaningful and productive dialogue across religious and ethnic boundaries. Written in English, Sinhalese and Tamil, the comics include the experiences and perspectives of school children, teachers, village leaders, members of village-level women’s groups, journalists and monks on religious and ethnic coexistence.
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Developed for the Coalition’s National Dialogues on Immigration project (2014-2015), this evaluation toolkit was implemented at each of the project’s twenty participating Sites of Conscience to assess the success of each institution’s site-specific dialogue work as well as the collective success of the project
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Developed by the Peace School Foundation of Monte Sole, the “laboratory-visit” program is an experiential guided tour of the Monte Sole Historic Park, which utilizes evidence-based history, oral narratives, dialogue questions and reflection. Between September 29 and October 5, 1944, 800 people in more than 100 places in the area were killed by Nazi SS troops with the help of Italian fascist elements. In addition to discussing the program’s educational pedagogy, the article contains a detailed description of the tour and a bibliography of resources.
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A dialogue program outline for use with youth ages 15 to 16 years old, I Have the Right Club was written by the Gulag Museum at Perm-36 in Russia (2009). The outline guides facilitators through a dialogue around freedom and other broad human
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THE INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF SITES OF CONSCIENCE In 2013-14, black K-12 students were 3.6 times more likely to receive at least one out of school suspension…
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Created by Coalition member Raphael Ortiz Latino Cultural Center, the Environmental & Climate Justice Dialogue Guide provides guidelines for facilitators in discussing environmental and climate issues with their communities through participants’ diverse cultural values and environment friendly practices. The guide is written in three parts including a discussion of the key concepts for civic dialogue, sample dialogue models and tips and resources.
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An evaluative study of Conversations on Courage, dialogues conducted by the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, North Carolina around their exhibit, Courage: The Carolina Story that Changed America. The study captures the knowledge, reflections and attitudes of 792 participants, 62 groups, and 38 organizations, including leaders from Charlotte’s corporate, civic and government sectors, that participated in Conversations on Courage from February 1 – May 31, 2004.
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Produced by Sites of Conscience member, Healing Through Remembering, this Conversation Guide provides dialogue parameters and questions for communities grappling with the past conflict in and about Northern Ireland. The Guide is written for facilitators and others with group facilitation skills interested in supporting individuals and groups on the issue of dealing with the past and remembering.
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This toolkit was written by the Coalition’s Secretariat to accompany Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation, an exhibit created by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). It provides basic grounding in the methodology behind facilitated dialogue, including the crafting of evocative questions, the use of appropriate dialogue techniques and suggested facilitator responses. Additionally, there are three program models to open new conversations about immigration, identity, race and social justice.
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