"Hope for and community healing comes when dialoguefocuses on personal stories, emotions and identities. It can counter the effects of the stories told of others that shred relational and communal bonds and the emotions that inflame or imprison...In face-to-face dialogue, participants have the opportunity to edit and add to the stories that are told about them, changing the ways that they are seen."

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