![]() The Animating Democracy Initiative (ADI) was the outgrowth of that study. In 1996 the Ford Foundation funded Americans for the Arts to study current activity and best practices among artists and cultural organizations whose work engages the public in dialogue on key civic issues. Dialogue, which has a long history among artists and cultural institutions, has also become an increasingly important concept in the arts community. They are also aware that how we talk is important-dialogue must address issues of equity before it can be successful. Many forward thinking citizens of the world now realize that in order to create just and humane societies, all kinds of individuals and groups need to come together to talk about the important and controversial matters that affect their survival and progress. T While debate and controversy have been the norms, an increasingly diverse and conflicted world calls us to collaborate with one another in order to survive and share the planet as one humanity. Dialogue has become the rallying cry of our day, and we see it taking place around the world: in the community dialogues sponsored by the Study Circles Resource Center, in the development of theory and practice at MIT's Dialogue Project, in the Seeds of Peace activities between Arab and Israeli youth, and in the open dialogues of family therapists in Finland. Over the last twenty years, the focus of numerous scholars and practitioners has turned to the topic of dialogue. I have to answer with my life for what I have experienced and understood in art, so that everything I have experienced and understood would not remain ineffectual in my life. ![]()
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