2009 TDI-DDC National Conference
With our partner, the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, TDI will be hosting a national conference, No Better Time: Promising Opportunities in Deliberative Democracy for Educators and Practitioners at the University of New Hampshire from July 8-11, 2009. More »

Managing Climate Change Through Collaborative Governance
From June 11-13 in Denver, CO, this conference will focus on the use and practice of environmental conflict resolution in addressing policy challenges globally and locally. More »

New Books from Kettering Foundation
The Kettering Foundation has produced several terrific publications on higher education’s role in American democracy recently, including A Different Kind of Politics (2009). More »

New Book: Democratic Professionalism
Bowling Green Professor Albert Dzur's new book proposes an approach he calls "democratic professionalism" to enable broader public engagement deliberation about major social issues. More »

The American Prospect Special Issue
The American Prospect has a new special report dedicated to revitalizing American democracy. You can read the six lead articles including one on deliberative democracy here. More »

Strengthening Democracy Report
Building upon the unprecedented engagement citizens showed during the presidential election, a new report with recommendations to President-elect Obama has been released on how to strengthen our Democracy. More »

Discussion Guide for Peer Review
TDI developed a discussion guide for campuses to use in conjunction with the latest issue of Peer Review which focuses on student political engagement. More »

Student-Centered Discussions
The Interactivity Foundation released a new guidebook for student-centered classroom discussions. You can download the report here.

Contribute to the Syllabi Repository
TDI is embarking on an ambitious project to develop a deliberative democracy syllabi repository. Learn how you can contribute! More »