But while slavery serves as an entry point for a dialogue on race, it is not an easy one.
Given the increasing importance of the World Bank, both as a source of finance for basic education as well as its role in the policy dialogue on education, it is regrettable that only very recently has the Bank come out with statements to specifically point out that cost recovery at the primary level will adversely affect demand (World Bank, 1996).
According to the emails, UnitedHealth sees the market for commissioning services in the UK "expanding and deepening" and wants to "kickstart a dialogue" on how it might emerge.
Rather than Ofsted dishing out grades, she'd like a benchmark that says whether a school is good enough and for there then to be an open dialogue on how it can improve.
She's opened a dialogue on what it's like to be a woman in comedy, a woman in the world.
With so much dialogue going on, it is not clear that Comcast has made the initial overture in each case or what its precise motive has been.
"If there is a dialogue going on, it's more likely that young people will come and talk to their parent if something goes wrong".
As a Deaf person sitting in the audience, it meant everything to see the dialogue on stage as it was intended, and not read from a dimly lit script on my lap.
"It's important to have a dialogue on this, but it's also important that the dialogue be a means to an end, and the end is really ending these practices," Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Robert Hormats, who spoke at the forum, told Reuters in an interview.
While the Sri Lankan government's own report from its Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission, published last December, includes important findings on reconciliation, and represents a potentially useful opportunity to begin a national dialogue on the conflict, it is disappointing in its failure to address seriously accountability issues.
