The Public Conversations Project (PCP) guides, trains, and inspires individuals, organizations, and communities to constructively address conflicts relating to values and worldviews.
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So what?: Reflections on Purpose
Today is my birthday and I'm reflecting. I've been thinking about why I do the work that I do. I find that all of my answers relate to a question we hear frequently at the Public Conversations Project: "So what?"
"They are just words….so what? So you help people play nice: What difference does it really make?"
I often find myself scratching my head when this question comes up because—to me—the connection between words and other kinds of action seems so self-evident.
The Pastor and the Imam—Nov. 13, 2009
All of us at the Public Conversations Project were delighted to hear of the Chirac Foundation's recent 2009 award of its first-ever Prize for the Prevention of Conflicts to Pastor James Wuye and Imam Muhammed Ashafa, of Kaduna, Nigeria. The Pastor and the Imam, as they are known, were honored for the work of their Interfaith Mediation Center toward interfaith understanding and coexistence in Nigeria. In May, 2009, the Pastor and the Imam visited the
