Public television station KCOS13 in El Paso, Texas has hosted and broadcast a series of forums using National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) issue guides. An April 4th, 2017 forum focused on the NIFI issue guide titled, Safety and Justice: How Sould Communities Reduce Violence? 

A deliberative forum held on February 28, 2017, at Lawson State Community College in Birmingham, Alabama, focused on the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) issue guide, Safety and Justice: How Should Communities Reduce Violence?. The forum was just one part of a larger project intended to introduce deliberation to the teacher education curriculum and to campus life.

You can now watch several National Issues Forums (NIF) that were held in El Paso, Texas. Community residents participated in the forums that were broadcast and recorded by KCOS13 Public Television. Each forum is approximately one-and-one-half hour long.

Upcoming forum topics include: End of Life (March 7, 2017), and Safety and Justice (April 4, 2017).

What is A Public Voice? A Public Voice is the Kettering Foundation and National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI)’s annual program where we communicate the public voice emerging out of National Issues Forums to policymakers in Washington DC. We’ve been experimenting with the most effective way to do that since 1983, and this year is no exception.