Groups/sites devoted to increasing civility, in government and in the public at large
- The National Institute for Civil Discourse, at U. of Arizona (founded in response to the Giffords shooting)
- The Institute for Civility in Government
- The Transpartisan Alliance (which used to be Re-Uniting America)
- The Public Conversations Project (see especially their free guide: "Fostering dialogue across divides.")
- The Livingroom Conversations Project
- The Village Square, a bipartisan group of Floridians who foster dialogue and civility in state politics, in part by hosting events involving shared meals. (Dining together activates tribal psychology that reduces divisions)
- P. M. Forni's Civility Web Site at Johns Hopkins
- The Bipartisan Policy Center.
- The Allegheny College Survey of Civility and Compromise in American Politics
- CivilityProject.org
Groups/sites devoted to conflict reduction/resolution, particularly those who address political/moral disputes
- Here's a list of online resources for community building and public participation
- The Consensus Building Institute See in particular this short lecture by Lawrence Susskind on "Mediating values-based and identity-based disputes."
- The Conflict Research Consortium at the University of Colorado
- The Public Disputes Program, at Harvard and MIT
- Search for Common Ground
- The Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, which seeks "to identify processes of democratic decisionmaking by which society can resolve culturally grounded differences in belief."
Other relevant websites
- The original moralistic politics workshop website
- Respectinpolitics.org, a site that tracks examples of incivility in the media
