Report
Introduction
A key feature of the DD dialogue marathons lies in creating discourse.
Sure enough, people are trying to think about the future of Donbas, but most often these attempts are completely unproductive. This is due to the simple fact that the present is not complete, i.e. war-bent residents cannot forecast not only the distant future but even sometimes tomorrow. And the fact that the population of the whole country is somehow embroiled in the Donbas conflict is confirmed by a serious reformatting of the electoral field in the 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections. Peace in the Donbas is the main goal for the majority of voters, but no one has any idea of what kind of peace this should be.
Every agenda for the dialogue on the DD platform is formed in such a way that it meets the real needs and interests of the participants and the discourse that was formed during the previous marathon. This agenda is not always limpid and enounced directly and explicitly by the dialogers. During the marathon, the expert group analyzes the developing discourse and offers its vision. During the preparation for the next marathon, to be exact - during the crowdsourcing process, this vision is concretized in topics and questions for discussion.
Thus, since 2015 DD has been building a dialogue between participants representing different stances on the conflict. Every time the online-dialogue topics are selected based on the current situation and considered in such form and depth as the dialogers and expert group see and imagine it.
Dialogers on DD are the participants of the dialogues, not the organizers of the process. The term was proposed by Steinar Bryn in 2015, during the first marathon.