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- 2017/18: Peace, Pluralism and Gender Equality with Alice Wairimu Nderitu
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- 2011/12: Twelve Days of Compassion with Karen Armstrong
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- 2005: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Right to Health with Mary Robinson
- 2002: Environmental Sustainability with Maurice Strong
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- 2022: Facing the Flames: New and Old Ways of Co-Existing with Fire with Joe Gilchrist and Paul Hessburg
- 2021: All My Relations: Trauma-Informed Engagement with Karine Duhamel
- 2019: Power of Empathy with Kimberly Jackson Davidson
- 2019: Rethinking BC Referendums with John Gastil
- 2017: Strengthening Democratic Engagement with Valerie Lemmie
- 2015-16: THRIVE! Surrey in 2030
- 2014: Citizen Engagement and Political Civility with Dr. Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer
- 2013: Building a Culture of Participation with Dave Meslin
- 2012: Riots and Restorative Justice with Dr. Theo Gavrielides
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Mission & Values
Holding Space for Transformative Conversations
Shared Understanding & Positive Action
Our mission is to foster shared understanding and positive action through dialogue and engagement.
What we do
SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue creates real-world impact for society’s most pressing challenges by using dialogue and engagement to co-create solutions, exchange knowledge, support experiential learning and transform democratic participation.
We do this in many ways, some of which are:
- Offering dialogue and engagement consulting services
- Developing and amplifying resources that enrich dialogue practice
- Collaborating on a variety of initiatives, including with Dialogue Fellows, Dialogue Associates and the broader SFU community
How do values guide our work?
Transparency
We earn trust and legitimacy by proactively disclosing our motives and by transparently communicating the outcomes of our work.
Diversity
We believe that success and innovation require the participation of diverse peoples, perspectives, and ways of knowing.
Curiosity
We host respectful conversations without pre-determined outcomes, where collaborative inquiry serves as an alternative to adversarial approaches.
Equity
We support participants in achieving equal voice by removing barriers to participation, reducing power imbalances, and counteracting systems of harm.
Impartiality
We hold impartial space for others to express their ideas, while recognizing our responsibility to ground these discussions in evidence-based information.