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We are in a small town in rural Brandenburg and talk for two days with 32 long-term unemployed people. Most … Continue ReadingAngry, but not bad people on the Brandenburg countryside

Talking straight to youngsters in Hamburg

We are in a less affluent part from Hamburg for a two-day Workshop. About 70% of our 32 participants have … Continue ReadingTalking straight to youngsters in Hamburg

Reading the title of this article might evoke pictures of people violently shouting at each other or bursting out into … Continue ReadingEmotions and Political Deliberation

This “Schule mit Courage” in a town East of Berlin has in total 330 pupils. About a third are first … Continue Reading“People have to work!” A Deliberation at a Secondary School in Brandenburg

Since 2016 Social Science Works has implemented more than forty rows of workshops with refugees and natives in which we … Continue ReadingA Deliberative Workshop with Chechen

Like many other western countries, Germany still has medical doctors, therapists and priests that believe that homosexuality is an illness … Continue ReadingDeliberating Homosexuality: Empirical Observations and Analyses

by Hans Blokland and Raíssa Silveira Since 2016 Social Science Works has organized and implemented almost forty rows of deliberative … Continue ReadingThe Rewards from Deliberation: Researching the Feedback of our Workshops

Could radicalization be prevented or reversed by bringing together those that have seemingly entered this path, with other not (yet) … Continue ReadingCountering Radicalization: What the Research on Deliberation and Radicalization Teaches us

People hardly ever change their mind. The more they feel forced to justify themselves, the more they feel questioned, criticized, … Continue ReadingHow to deliberate fundamental values? Notes from Brandenburg on our approach.