Each person has the right to expect that what is said will be held in confidence. Each person must agree to hold what others say in confidence. Each person should learn to deal with others from a position of mutual trust, based on an expectation that others come to the dialogue in a spirit of honesty and sincerity. NCCJ battles bias, bigotry and racism and promotes understanding and respect among all. Dialogue builds a learning relationship between people.
Debate builds a competitive relationship between people.
Dialogue encourages the participants to identify questions and goals they could share. Debate encourages each side to articulate its own questions and goals. In a dialogue the goals are finding common ideas and new ideas. In a debate the goals is winning with your own ideas. In a dialogue everyone contributes to solving a problem.