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Curated & Moderated by:
Anna-Kynthia Bousdoukou

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Dialogues is a platform that aims to develop new ways of thinking, build bridges of cooperation, and encourage creative public dialogue across geographic, social, and cultural limits.

56 Open discussions

21 Different locations

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13 Topics

To infinity and beyond: Space Travel, Mars and Ethics

The Environmental Costs of War

ChatGPT: Demystifying the AI Fever

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Through open discussions, live debates, opinions, topics and rich multimedia content, the SNF Dialogues foster the exchange of ideas, emphasizing the need for citizens to express themselves and communicate with each other, always rooted in the values of equity and diversity. Democracy, political values, global economy, social change, artificial intelligence, mental health and the future of our planet are some of the important issues that are addressed by the SNF Dialogues.

22 Opinions

Public Libraries: A Quiet Force to Strengthen Democracy

Anthony W. Marx

The importance of Mental Health

Andreas Dracopoulos and Harold S. Koplewicz

Global warming is not an exclusively contemporary phenomenon

Niki Evelpidou

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The SNF Dialogues are curated and moderated by Anna-Kynthia Bousdoukou, are held through the journalism non-profit organization iMEdD (incubator for Media Education and Development) and are free and open to everyone.

273 Dialoguers

Nicholas A. Christakis

Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale Universtiy

We are unlikely to have another serious respiratory pandemic in the next few decades, but it could happen. And I suspect, we will forget all the lessons of the current one when the next one happens, just like this one we forgot all the lessons of the past ones.

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28 Waiting to Connect

Lilliana Mason

Associate Professor of Political Science at the SNF Agora Institute of Johns Hopkins University

Leaders have a big role to play (…) Their motivations are often based on how to get more votes and how to get more money and…[they] create more conflict to get those things. Having leaders be more responsible participants in democracy (…) could tone things down.

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55 Reconnecting in a Fractured Political Landscape

Foteini Tsalikoglou

Author and Professor of Psychology at Panteion University

Our psyche is a product of dialogue, as, from the moment that we are born, we are part of a relationship. There is no ‘I’ without an ‘other.’ From this initial condition derive the difficulties, but also the beauty, that shape the adventures of our psyche.

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38 The Psychological Effects of a Year Living with Covid-19

Peter Ditto

Professor of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine

When you feel that it’s morally offensive what the other side is doing…it creates anger, anxiety, very often fear, particularly when they are in power, and you could see the connections between the political and the personal in this sort of situation.

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55 Reconnecting in a Fractured Political Landscape

Eric Klinenberg

Professor of Social Sciences at New York University

A public space is an essential part of modern democratic life.

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44 The Return to Public Space,

50 Manifestations of violence

Samira Rajabi

Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado

The attention economy at its most basic is this restructuring of ways of creating profit that uses us and our free labor as a commodity. We become the commodity. So the more time we spend on these applications, the more they make a profit. And so it’s all about keeping us in the application.

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47 Facebook Down

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SNF Dialogues. Diverse opinions, new ways of thinking