i want to bring in jennifer linde, who is a senior lecturer at the far right. she works at the arizona state university in communications. she participated in the design development of civil dialogue at that university. it is a very formal format. it is performance studies classes. both public and in the classroom. i wonder if you can explain this to mean? civility is a performance. we are asking people to perform a little bit. what is the nature of that? is this about blocking and smiling when someone yells at you? >> it does not hurt, i guess. i would be cautious to call it a performance. it gets to the idea that civility can be about manners. it is intended to produce knowledge, and to produce something. the point of the dialogue of civility is not necessarily to compromise, but what do we come away with from this? we have designed a format. two people who have strong disagreements about a topic and there is an interesting central chair that may be dead and at some of the ideas we're talking about. the central chair is about, am i undecided or neutral about

i want to bring in jennifer linde, who is a senior lecturer at the far right. she works at the arizona state university in communications. she participated in the design development of civil dialogue at that university. it is a very full moral format -- formal format. it is performance studies classes. both public and in the classroom. i wonder if you can explain this to mean? years of the performance -- civility is a performance. we are asking people to perform a little bit. what is the nature of that? is this about blocking and smiling when someone yells at you? >> it does not hurt, i guess. i would be cautious to call it a performance. it gets to the idea that stability cannot be about manners. -- civility cannot be about manners. it is intended to produce knowledge, and to produce something. the point of the dialogue of civility is not necessarily to compromise, but what do we come away with from this? we have designed a format. two people who have strong disagreements about a topic and there is an interesting central chair that may be dead and at some of t

i want to bring in jennifer linde, who is a senior lecturer at the far right. she works at the arizona state university in communications. she participated in the design development of civil dialogue at that university. it is a very full moral format -- formal format. it is performance studies classes. both public and in the classroom. i wonder if you can explain this to mean? years of the performance -- civility is a performance. we are asking people to perform a little bit. what is the nature of that? is this about blocking and smiling when someone yells at you? >> it does not hurt, i guess. i would be cautious to call it a performance. it gets to the idea that stability cannot be about manners. -- civility cannot be about manners. it is intended to produce knowledge, and to produce something. the point of the dialogue of civility is not necessarily to compromise but what do we come away with from this? we have designed a format. two people who have strong disagreements about a topic and there is an interesting central chair that may be dead and at some of th

i want to bring in jennifer linde, who is a senior lecturer at the far right. she works at the arizona state university in communications. she participated in the design development of civil dialogue at that university. it is a very formal format. it is performance studies classes. both public and in the classroom. i wonder if you can explain this to mean? civility is a performance. we are asking people to perform a little bit. what is the nature of that? is this about blocking and smiling when someone yells at you? >> it does not hurt, i guess. i would be cautious to call it a performance. it gets to the idea that civility can be about manners. it is intended to produce knowledge, and to produce something. the point of the dialogue of civility is not necessarily to compromise, but what do we come away with from this? we have designed a format. two people who have strong disagreements about a topic and there is an interesting central chair that may be dead and at some of the ideas we're talking about. the central chair is about, am i undecided or neutral about