JOURNAL of DIALOGUE JOURNAL STUDIES of DIALOGUE STUDIES DIALOGUE Special Issue Rethinking Dialogue in the Age of New Challenges and Opportunities Guest Editors: Prof Emer Joseph A. Camilleri Dr Hilary Cremin Dr Mustafa Demir Prof Mike Hardy Prof Karim Murji Dr Oemer Shener Frances Sleap Prof Shirley Steinberg Prof Paul Weller 2020 INSTITUTE for Volume 8 DIALOGUE STUDIES Journal of Dialogue Studies Volume 8 2020 Special Issue Rethinking Dialogue in the Age of New Challenges and Opportunities Guest Editors: Prof Emer Joseph A. Camilleri Dr Hilary Cremin Dr Mustafa Demir Prof Mike Hardy Prof Karim Murji Dr Oemer Shener Frances Sleap Prof Shirley Steinberg Prof Paul Weller Editorial Team Academic Editor: Prof Paul Weller - Executive Editor: Ozcan Keles Assistant Editors: Dr Mustafa Cakmak, Dr Mustafa Demir, Dr Oemer Shener, Frances Sleap Editorial Board Prof Ronald Arnett Prof Eddie Halpin Prof Ali Paya Duquesne University Orkney College UHI The Islamic College Prof Michael Barnes Dr Carool Kersten Dr Fabio Petito University of Roehampton London Kings College London University of Sussex Prof Joseph Camilleri Prof Simon Keyes Prof Simon Robinson La Trobe University University of Winchester Leeds Beckett University Prof Donal Carbaugh Prof Ian Linden Dr Erkan Toguslu University of Massachusetts Amherst St. Mary’s University University of KU Leuven Twickenham London Prof Tony Evans Dr Johnston McMaster Prof Pnina Werbner Winchester University Trinity College Dublin Keele University Dr Cem Erbil Prof Karim Murji Dr Nicholas Wood Dialogue Society University of West London University of Oxford Prof Max Farrar Prof Alpaslan Ozerdem Leeds Beckett University George Mason University --------------------------------- The Editors appreciate comments and feedback from readers. 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The Journal of Dialogue Studies is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal published once a year INSTITUTE by the Institute of Dialogue Studies, a subsidiary body for DIALOGUE of the Dialogue Society, which undertakes the Society’s STUDIES academic work including research, academic workshops and publications. The Dialogue Society is a registered charity, established in London in 1999, with the aim of advancing social cohesion CENTRE by connecting communities, empowering people to engage for COMMUNITY and contributing to the development of ideas on dialogue. ENGAGEMENT It operates nation-wide with regional branches across the UK. Through discussion forums, courses, capacity building publications and outreach it enables people to venture across boundaries of religion, culture and social class. It provides a platform where people can meet to share narratives and CENTRE for perspectives, discover the values they have in common and be POLICY at ease with their differences. OUTREACH CONNECTING COMMUNITIES EMPOWERING ENGAGEMENT INSPIRING IDEAS Journal of Dialogue Studies 2020 Volume 8 DIALOGUE First published in Great Britain 2020 SOCIETY © Dialogue Society 2020 LONDON 1999 All rights reserved. Except for downloading and storing this publication from the Dialogue Society website for personal use. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored or made Registered Charity available on any information storage and retrieval system No: 1117039 without prior written permission from the publisher. www.DialogueSociety.org ISSN 2054-3123 Contents Editorial Introduction ......................................................................... 5 Designated Spaces for Designated Imaginaries: The Cruel Optimism of Citizen Participation in Post-disaster State-citizen Dialogues Anna Vainio ......................................................................................... 9 Miscommunicating across Borders: Ethnographic Reflections on EU Techniques of ‘Better Communication’ from Brussels Seamus Montgomery ........................................................................... 32 Fourth-Track Diplomacy: Its Time Has Come Suzanne Goodney Lea Eirliani Abdul Rahman ...................................................................... 51 Dialogue in Lockdown: Online Dialogue and its Lessons Amidst Rising Popularism Andrew Smith .................................................................................... 67 Online Peace-building Dialogue: Opportunities & Challenges Post-Covid-19 Pandemic Emergence Bassam Kassoumeh.............................................................................. 86 Virtual Dialogues: A Method to Deal with Polarisation in a Time of Social Isolation Caused by COVID-19 Rafael de Araujo Arosa Monteiro Renata Ferraz de Toledo Pedro Roberto Jacobi ......................................................................... 113 Rethinking Dialogue Practices among Children: Philosophy for Children and Phenomenology as Approach towards Conflict Resolution in a Diverse Classroom Aireen Grace Andal........................................................................... 134 The Buddhist Nuns and Dialogue in Wartime Myanmar: Understanding the ‘Banality of Othering’ Sneha Roy ........................................................................................ 152 Creative Dialogue in Rome, Italy: Thinking Beyond Discourse-Based Interfaith Engagement Jenn Lindsay .................................................................................... 173 Notes from a Black and White Island, Personal Reflections on Dialogue and Black Lives Matter David Wiseman ................................................................................ 190 Role-Model Natives: Influences of Intergroup Contact on Muslim Perceptions of Right-wing Populism Yahya Barry ..................................................................................... 195 Learning to Listen Agonistically: Dialogue Encounters on the Eastside Deborah Dunn Rachel Rains Winslow ....................................................................... 217 Neo-Populism: Applying Paul Taggart’s Heartland to the Italian Five Star Movement and League parties Amedeo Varriale ............................................................................... 235 Special Issue Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Dialogue in the Age of New Challenges and Opportunities We, children of the twenty-first century, are witnessing another great transformation, which is creating gaps in meaning. This recalls the famous quote from Gramsci: ‘The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.’ Utilizing the gaps in meaning, ‘monsters’ are haunting politics, society, and dialogue, which we define as ‘meaningful’ exchanges between members of the wider society. Concepts like multiculturalism, diversity, and even democracy have not only been consumed but also have been loaded with negative connotations within these haunted ‘gaps.’ ‘Populism’ is on the rise across the world and presents a serious obstacle for meaningful dialogue. It harbours racism and breeds xenophobia, polarising people, creating factions and hostility. As a form of yearning for the past, making nations ‘great again’ has become the cry of the masses. Nonetheless, we are also in an age of opportunities for rethinking and expanding dialogue. The emergence/creation of new ‘spaces’ allows us to generate and exchange meaning to begin to close the gaps, and this has become faster and easier than ever before. New tools for conversation and dialogue have emerged from the explosion of new technologies, creating spaces for discussion and debate. Here, people belonging to different faiths, social, cultural, political, and professional groups can engage in meaningful dialogue and generate conversations. In this special issue of Journal of Dialogue Studies, addressing this new context, we have 13 papers, clustered under four themes. These are: 1. Citizens and Institutions in A Dialogical Setting 2. Dialogue: New Opportunities and Challenges During