[OSList] What could dialogue look like between people of Russia and people of the West?

[paul levy]

Wonderful thought, Lucas.

I think the leading thought of Marvin Weisbord comes in here as a possible
invitational thought: Discovering Common Ground.

Warm wishes,

Paul

On Sat, 19 Feb 2022, 17:35 Lucas Cioffi via OSList, <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Dear OSLIST,
>
>
> Does anyone want to try opening up some dialogue channels between the
> people of Russia and the people of the West?  It's way too late to affect
> the current situation in Ukraine, but dialogue could be helpful for the
> long term.
>
>
> I believe that if the people speak with each other directly
> and (eventually) on a large enough scale, then there is a strong chance for
> understanding to be built, less us-vs.-them thinking, and that would give
> political leaders flexibility to choose options other than war to solve big
> problems.
>
>
> It doesn't look like many are doing anything like this yet.  With a quick
> Google search I could only find the Carnegie Moscow Center
> <https://carnegiemoscow.org/specialprojects/relaunchingusrussiadialogueonglobalchallenges/?lang=en> as
> an organization interested in a participatory US-Russia dialogue.
>
>
> Assuming there was an unlimited budget, how could a dialogue be designed?
> Is anyone interested in working on something like this?
>
>
> Lucas Cioffi
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