Tibetan-Chinese Dialogue Group Unrecognized

Mission Statement
The objective of the Tibet-Chinese Student Dialogue Group is to create a sustainable platform for the Chinese, the Tibetans and anyone else who is concerned with the current situation between Tibet and China to engage in a peaceful dialogue.

We would like this project to be a medium through which respectful exchanges of views, experience, and ideas can take place, which we hope would lead to a broad-minded and thoughtful examination of the political, social, religious, economic context of the Tibet-China issue – a need due to the lack of proliferation and dissemination in such discourses. In doing so, we hope the initiative would foster among the people who participate a sense of mutual understanding, respect, and trust.

By forming this student group we stress for the need of agencies at Hampshire that aim to engage divided student groups - not least between the Tibetans and the Chinese - into respectful dialogues in order to bridging the gap of their mutual understandings as well as probing solutions for the complex and yet extremely divisive social, political and ethnic issues.

Inventory
Dialogue here is not the threshold to action, it is the action itself. ...in dialogue a person not only shows himself outwardly, but he comes for the first time that which he is...not only for others but for himself as well. To be means to communicate dialogically. When dialogue ends, everything ends. Thus dialogue, by its very essence, cannot and must not come to an end."

- Mikhail Bakhtin, 1984