Experimenting with new ways to convey climate findings, and new ways to foster constructive public discourse on issues with this level of complexity and scope, is important.
Mr. Obama may have left crucial issues out — like how money corrupts American elections, Mr. Trelles said — but his discourse on issues that matter to the Cuban people went over well.
Leonard Boasberg Wayne, Pa., Sept. 5, 2008 To the Editor: Now that both candidates for the presidency and the vice presidency have been chosen, may we expect that we will have a civil discourse on issues, with all candidates disavowing any smears coming from those with axes to grind?
A spokesman for Representative Roger Williams, a Republican from Texas, told KXAN, an Austin NBC affiliate, that the congressman had declined one invitation from a local group affiliated with the Indivisible movement, because "if you closely examine the statements and missions of these groups, it's clear that civil, substantive discourse on issues is not their true agenda".
Yad Vashem welcomed the Vatican's decision to release the archives, saying it had been calling for years for the archives to be opened to "enable objective and open research as well as comprehensive discourse on issues relating to the conduct of the Vatican in particular, and the Catholic church in general, during the Holocaust".
In spite of the laws, stigmas, and anxieties attached to it, the word 'copying' permeates contemporary culture, shaping discourse on issues from hip hop to digitization to gender reassignment, and is particularly crucial in legal debates concerning intellectual property and copyright.
The conference took place from November 12-14 in Irvine, CA. This year's NAKFI centered around how arts, science, and design can stimulate "a renaissance of innovation" to tackle global issues, foster discourse on important issues with the public, explore the engagement of the human mind with aesthetics and creative disruption, and create concrete projects and collaborative spaces.
A civility policy can be as simple as agreeing that civil discourse focuses on issues; respects others; and acknowledges strength in others' arguments.
The breakdown of public discourse on sensitive issues is redefining the bystander effect.
Currently, she is figuring out how these two careers can best work together: she teaches courses in end of life care issues at Duke, and is seeking other ways to bring lively discourse on these issues to campus (through performance, art, practitioners' talks, and other kinds of conversations).
Various national bioethics commissions, including one appointed by President Bill Clinton, have helped shape public discourse on controversial issues, most recently cloning and embryo research.
