Between the fall of 2020 and summer of 2021, Universal Human Rights Initiative (UHRI) offered two free series of intergroup dialogues as a form of community building during unprecedented times - the advent of both a worldwide health pandemic and a national reckoning of US racial oppression. This was situated in a time of extreme political polarization that left everyday conversations about these issues severely fraught. Intergroup dialogue offered an antidote for some to join

This case study presents the early stages of institutionalizing a culture and practice of public-private dialogue (PPD) in Sierra Leone, a small, poor country in West Africa. Over the last 15 years, the World Bank has promoted PPD as a critical instrument to improve the investment climate in developing countries (Herzberg & Wright, 2006). The plot twist to this conventional story is an attempt to blend elements of “Bohmian“ dialogue practice as promoted by the Academy of Prof