A Test of Civil Discourse During Times of Crisis
Tue, May 12
|Zoom meeting
City Club of Boise is launching on-line programming to enable us to continue to provide interesting and informative conversations during this time of Social Distancing.
Time & Location
May 12, 2020, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Zoom meeting
About the Event
In 2016, following a contentious Presidential campaign season, City Club of Boise partnered with the National Institute for Civil Discourse to organize a series of events exploring civility in our public discourse. The goal of this project, to paraphrase City Club founder Dottie Stimpson, was to "get people to start talking" to each other, and to chart a course for communicating outside of traditional partisan lines.
Now, nearly four years later, we appear to be at another test of civility. The 2020 Presidential election and a global pandemic of historic proportions are once again challenging elected leaders and citizens to talk to talk to each other – not at each other.
We invite you to join us as we revisit civility and civil discourse with a City Club Virtual Conversation looking at the role these principles should play at this moment and time, and the limitations of focusing on civility…