Robert Dahl (1915 – 2014) is one of the most influential political scholars of the last century. His ideas on political scholarship, pluralism, democracy and deliberation also influenced Social Science Works. On Dahl, Hans

by Hans Blokland and Raíssa Silveira Since 2016 Social Science Works has organized and implemented almost forty rows of deliberative workshops with refugees and German natives. Together with the participants, in our workshops we try

Hans Blokland und Raíssa Silveira Seit 2016 hat Social Science Works fast vierzig Reihen deliberativer Workshops mit Flüchtlingen und heimischen Bürgern durchgeführt. In unseren Workshops versuchen wir gemeinsam mit den Teilnehmern, vor allem durch das

Like many other western countries, Germany still has medical doctors, therapists and priests that believe that homosexuality is an illness that can be cured. For instance, the weekly Der Spiegel recently reported on Gero Winkelmann,

Since 2016 Social Science Works has implemented more than forty rows of workshops with refugees and natives in which we discuss, among others, ethical and political pluralism, democracy, civic society, freedom (of expression, association and

This “Schule mit Courage” in a town East of Berlin has in total 330 pupils. About a third are first generation migrants or refugees (mostly from Syria or Afghanistan). The school works with

We are in a less affluent part from Hamburg for a two-day Workshop. About 70% of our 32 participants have a migration background. We talk for about 10 hours with two different groups

We are in a small town in rural Brandenburg and talk for two days with 32 long-term unemployed people. Most of them are older than 50. They opted to become a part of

Gender equality is a pivotal topic in many of the deliberative workshops we have implemented in the last couple of years in Germany. Originally, German authorities considered it important to discuss the rights of

Einleitung Im Jahr 2019 arbeitete Social Science Works eng mit einer Hamburger Kreisschule zusammen. Wir bildeten zwei Gruppen von je etwa 12 Schülern, die sich freiwillig an unserem deliberativen Projekt zu Diskriminierung, Respekt und Demokratie beteiligten.