
DIALOGUE RESOURCES
Dialogue Training Guides from Karuna Center
The practice of dialogue is central to nearly all Karuna Center programs. The mutual understanding and commitment built among dialogue participants serves as a foundation for broader outreach, advocacy, and community-building initiatives. Learn more about Karuna Center’s past & present programs that incorporate dialogue >
Community Dialogue Handbook: A Guide for Facilitating Community Engagement (2018)
Developed in the context of our work in Myanmar. Also available in Burmese, Shan, & Kachin (Jingpaw)
Direct download of PDF.
Peacebuilding in Divided Communities: Karuna Center's Approach to Training (2012)
See Ch. 3: Intercommunal Dialogue
Also available in Arabic (abridged)
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DownloadMORE RESOURCES FOR DIALOGUE in THE U.S. CONTEXT
A sampling of resources from amazing work being done in many communities across the United States—made publicly available by various organizations noted below. This list draws partly from a list of resources curated by Hands Across the Hills.
Practical guides:
- Conversation Agreements, from Living Room Conversations
- Principles for Conversation Cafés, from Conversation Café
- From Convergence: Online Dialogue Guide, & Tips and Tools for Successful Dialogue
- Listen First Project’s Conversation Guide
- Essential Partners’ Guide for Conversations Across the Red-Blue Divide
- “How to Talk to Your Neighbor” Guide, from the One America Movement
- Race in America: A Dialogue Guide, from Essential Partners
- The Acceptance Project (TAP) Handbook, focusing on work among high school students
- Fostering Dialogue Across Divides, from the Public Conversations Project (now Essential Partners)
Important research to inform the work:
- Transforming the Color of US Peacebuilding: Types of Dialogue to Protect and Advance Multi-racial Democracy, by Lisa Schirch, Toda Peace Institute
- Beyond Conflict’s report, America’s Divided Mind: Understanding the Psychology that Drives us Apart

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Conversations we hosted in 2021
Setting Standards for Peacebuilding Practice in the United States
As part of the National Day of Dialogue on January 5, 2022, we joined Alliance for Peacebuilding as a panelist on their webinar. We discussed how to ensure peacebuilding programming in the United States follows principles that integrate conflict risk and evaluate effectiveness.
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