Links

Groups/sites devoted to increasing civility, in government and in the public at large

NoLabels.org, perhaps the most effective group in washington for actually changing the behavior of congress, to allow for more civil discussion
The National Institute for Civil Discourse, at U. of Arizona (founded in response to the Giffords shooting)
The Institute for Civility in Government
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
BeyondCivility.org, a group trying to foster dialogue and effective governance in Cincinnati

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.”
Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
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.”
National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation: a hub and clearinghouse for people involved in fostering dialogue, deliberation, and public engagement.

Other relevant websites

ProCon.org, a site that presents information and arguments on both sides of controversial issues. It’s a great tool for teachers, or anyone interested in learning about both sides of an argument.
The original moralistic politics workshop website
Respectinpolitics.org, a site that tracks examples of incivility in the media
United Republic: working to build a left-right coalition to reduce the role of money and corruption in politics
GovernmentWithoutTricks.org, a book in progress by David Schoenbrod, which diagnoses the tricks that Congress is incentivized to play, which allow it to get credit for taking actions while passing on the costs of those actions to others, particularly to future congresses.
A2Ethics.org, an organization that promotes ethics events in the community, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.