Sentences with phrase «encourage public dialogue»

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As you may know, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will soon be on «a nationwide (USA) speaking tour next month to promote the project and encourage interfaith dialogue,» and at least one member of your faith chastised the Imam (in a public online forum) for not holding open meetings.

Baby Milk Action informed the UN Global Compact Office that, while it would continue to copy the Office into its ongoing «dialogue» with Nestlé and encourage the Office to exclude Nestlé, the correspondence with the Office had demonstrated that it was incapable or unwilling to take any action to stop the violations and that far from improving corporate behaviour it was, in this instance at least, complicit in allowing violations to continue by providing legitimacy to misleading reports — which it refused to evaluate — and public relations cover.

These gifts celebrate and advance CEO Emeritus Alan I. Leshner's vision to sharpen scientists» public engagement skills while working to encourage the civic dialogue needed to address the science - society issues we face today.

Since 2004, the AAAS Center for Public Engagement has worked to further awareness of science and the scientific process and increase public input into scientific research and policy agendas, encouraging and facilitating dialogue between policymakers, the general public, and the scientific commPublic Engagement has worked to further awareness of science and the scientific process and increase public input into scientific research and policy agendas, encouraging and facilitating dialogue between policymakers, the general public, and the scientific commpublic input into scientific research and policy agendas, encouraging and facilitating dialogue between policymakers, the general public, and the scientific commpublic, and the scientific community.

«He has encouraged scientists to proactively participate in dialogue on science - society issues, to truly listen to public concerns and questions, and not to lecture.

The Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion program facilitates communication between scientific and religious communities through partnerships with religious organizations to help incorporate science into educational programs and encourage scientific outreach to address public concerns about scientific advances and show how they address world problems.

By offering this Prize, Foresight hopes to encourage continued responsible coverage of nanotechnology as a means for engaging the public in dialogue leading to improved public policy on these important issues.

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

With painting, drawing, singing, and dance classes dwindling in public schools, Sarson hopes the half - hour special opens up a dialogue between administrators, policymakers, parents, and teachers about the importance of such activities and the potential consequences of raising generations of children that aren't encouraged to appreciate the arts or think outside the box.

I encourage the growing dialogue between public, private, and parochial schools.

I am committed to letting my voice be heard as I witness policy dialogue that may dismantle public education as we know it and encourage teachers to help students find their voice in their own learning.

On Monday, November 4, many teachers and support staff across North Carolina plan to take part in a «walk - in» to encourage a richer dialogue between community members and educators about what is happening in the state's public schools.

About Democrats for Education Reform Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is a political action committee with 12 state offices whose mission is to encourage a more productive dialogue within the Democratic Party on the need to fundamentally reform American public education.

This exhibition encourages students, colleagues, and the public to view, discuss and engage in critical dialogue regarding the exhibition with our teaching artists.

For Communal Courtyard's debut at the AGO, Song Dong selected works from the gallery's collection — works by Murray Favro, On Kawara, Sol Lewitt, René Magritte, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol — which encourage a dialogue about notions of «public» and «private.»

Furthermore, artists are encouraged to host public programs and workshops, with the support of staff, to increase awareness and dialogue around their practice.

The participatory, public nature of many of his commissions, coupled with their often - engaging premises, encourages viewers to complete and to validate the works, drawing the artist and his audience into an equal dialogue.

Encouraging a dialogue and interaction with the visitors and viewers, this is a special recognition for one artist particularly well - regarded by the public.

We are committed to cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages a dialogue between exhibiting artists, students, faculty, the general public, and other cultural institutions.

Encouraging a dialogue on issues related to gentrification, Philadelphia Block Project invites conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas to engage the community through public forums and photography.

Schimmel concludes, «With Hauser Wirth and Schimmel, we aspire to give all of these artists a unique second home: a place to create and show their art in historic context, a place that encourages their most rigorous and best expressions, and a place that brings them and their art into a dynamic, exciting and transformative dialogue with the public.»

Does the legal profession have a role to play in encouraging more civil dialogue on public policy issues?

To «facilitate public scrutiny of government policies... and to encourage the involvement of the various... sectors of society in the formulation, implementation and review of the relevant policies... [T] he preparation of the report, and its consideration at the national level can come to be of at least as much value as the constructive dialogue conducted at the international level between the Committee and representatives of the reporting State».