{"id":43,"date":"2026-09-01T06:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totesa.website\/faculty\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:35:01","slug":"presentations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/research\/presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Lands Dialogues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"11106\" data-end=\"11133\">Dialogue Rooted in Place<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"11135\" data-end=\"11267\">Public lands offer unusual opportunities for civic dialogue because difficult public questions become tangible in particular places.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11269\" data-end=\"11537\">A battlefield can prompt questions about history and memory. A national seashore can create conversations about conservation, access, climate, development, and community. A mountain landscape can raise questions about recreation, livelihoods, preservation, and change.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11269\" data-end=\"11537\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41559\/2026\/09\/IMG_7279-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-269 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41559\/2026\/09\/IMG_7279-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11539\" data-end=\"11615\"><strong data-start=\"11539\" data-end=\"11564\">Civic Lands Dialogues<\/strong> begin with place and move toward public questions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11617\" data-end=\"11825\">The Center works to develop and study dialogue models that allow participants to consider multiple perspectives, listen across differences, examine tradeoffs, and identify areas for learning or shared action.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11827\" data-end=\"11862\">The goal is not to force consensus.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11864\" data-end=\"11982\">It is to strengthen people&#8217;s capacity to engage constructively with one another about places and questions they share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialogue Rooted in Place Public lands offer unusual opportunities for civic dialogue because difficult public questions become tangible in particular places. A battlefield can prompt questions about history and memory. A national seashore can create conversations about conservation, access, climate, development, and community. A mountain landscape can raise questions about recreation, livelihoods, preservation, and change. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32712,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/270"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/civiclands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}