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Dialogue may be the most dangerous human activity.

From it spring love, construction, knowledge and a great deal of good.

From it erupts wars, disasters, genocide and corruption, in the general sense of the word.

That is because dialogue is an umbrella for every talk between two people.

It may become a tool for bringing goodness or a target for every spiteful opportunist.

Dialogue may be raised as an appealing slogan; however, it soon becomes clear that it was a conspiracy to undermine the doctrinal structure of others in order to subdue them, and dialogists find themselves involved in a scourge-bringing animosity.

It is interesting to find that all the outputs of human civilization talk peacefully and may interact to produce aesthetic results, while the producer (man) is the only element that is difficult to establish dialogue with.

Although dialogue is a slogan raised all over the world, wars are still waged and terrorism is still alive, while muzzling policies and suppression have become daily behaviours, not only in developing states, but also in technologically advanced states where the freedom of thought is said to be observed.

In the latter, some beliefs, especially the Islamic ones, are being suppressed in terms of preventing Muslim women wearing Hijab from attending the Government's educational institutions, as is the case in France.

Some friends from Holland told me that a female teacher described her veiled student as an “idiot”.

Even in sat channels, dialogue has turned into a real battle field causing people to be killed.

The afore-mentioned points insistently urged me to make a distinction between the “art of dialogue” and other arts of speech, such as: argument, negotiation, debate, etc.

I have chosen my paper to address “the Art of Dialogue” with a clear-cut description drawing up a program for decision makers with strict rules, which, if breached, would bring them to accountability and punish them.

On that basis, I find it necessary to start my research with a preface and several topics.

The preface goes through previous studies on the art of dialogue and explains the reasons why the name of this art has been confused with terms of other arts.

The topics discussed were: First: Necessity and Eligibility of the Term.

Second: Definitions of Term Criticized.

Third: Risk of Dialogue Lies in Confusion with Other Terms.

Fourth: Meaning of Description.

Fifth: Aims and Benefits of Description of Dialogue.

Sixth: Disciplines of Dialogue under the Current Description.

Seventh: Outcomes of Dialogue within the Description.

Finally, the paper ends with conclusions and recommendations.