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Conflict Prevention, Mediation & Reconciliation: Role of Media
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Participatory Communication
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Participatory Videos & Community Filmmaking
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Conflict-Sensitive / Peace Communication
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Media Assistance in Conflict Regions & Fragile Countries
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Development Communication: Monitoring & Evaluation
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Development Communication Research
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Development Communication Theories
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Migrants & Refugees: Tailor-Made Media Products & Information Services
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Theories of Change
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Migrants & Refugees
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Youth
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Information Needs & Media Use: Refugees & Displaced People
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Media Socialisation, Media Biographies, Media Life Journeys
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Children's Rights
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International Organizations: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Community Radios
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Storytelling
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Perpetrators
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Theatre for Development
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Development Communication Projects: Case Studies
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Communication for Social Change
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Edutainment Radio Programmes
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Facebook
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Evaluation in Conflict & Fragility Settings
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International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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UNICEF
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
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Migrants, Refugees, Diasporas & Media
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Refugees / Displaced People
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Youth Migrants, Youth Refugees, Youth Dasporas
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Social Photography
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Qualitative Research Methods
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Reality Television Programmes & Daily Talks
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Youth and Media
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Youth Activism, Youth Civic Engagement, Youth Political Interests, Youth Protests
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Community Building through the Airwaves RefFM Radio Station and Young People in Kakuma
Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2025), 20 pp.
"This paper examines the role that community radio can play in a refugee camp, with particular focus on community building and social cohesion among young people. The article introduces the experience of RefFM in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. Findings from four focus groups with young refugees in Kaku
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Posting “what” on social media? The (mis-)use of Facebook by young people in refugee camps
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 134-147
"This paper aims to shed light on the threats that young people living in refugee camps face in their use of Facebook. While social media enable a participatory process of communication (Russo et al., 2008), which is based on the agency of the communicator and defined by their own cultural and moral
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Looking Beyond Organisational Approaches to Advance Communication Practice: An Examination of Development Projects in India
Development in Practice, volume 34, issue 3 (2024), pp. 255-272
"Organisation-centric approaches in development communication and public relations that privilege the organisation can restrict communication to organisational mandates and goals. Organisation-centric approaches can reflect a modernist view of development or communication and have been critiqued for
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Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people’s journeys
Qualitative Research, volume 24, issue 5 (2024), pp. 1302-1311
"This research note introduces the experience of using ‘timelines’ as a visual research method during online interviewing. It does so through a series of questions and answers that guide the reader through an exploration, understanding of and reflection on the method. This qualitative approach w
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Communicating Social Cohesion in Forced Displacement: A Framework for Protracted Situations of Encampment
Social Sciences, volume 13, issue 542 (2024), 10 pp.
"This paper addresses the role that communication and media interventions can play in fostering social cohesion among displaced populations in camp settings through a review of both practical and theoretical notions in this area. The multiple definitions available in the literature on social cohesio
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Reality TV and Civic Engagement: Researching the Lives of the Young Palestinians Who Ran for ‘The President’
Creative Industries Journal (2023), 21 pp.
"This article analyses the role that Reality TV can play in the lives of young participants, when a programme is designed as a strategic intervention to achieve change. With roots in Communication for Development notions, this study brings together different theoretical fields to illustrate how medi
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Communicating with Unaccompanied Foreign Minors: How UN Agencies Engage with Newly Arrived Migrant and Refugee Children in Italy
Respond (2020), 14 pp.
"This paper provides an overview of the communication practices that UN agencies working on the migration response in Italy have adopted in their work with newly arrived unaccompanied migrant children. These include IOM, UNICEF and UNHCR. The aim is to present the different objectives and methodolog
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Radio, Conflict and Land Grabbing in Sierra Leone: Communicating Rights and Preventing Violence Through Drama
Media, War & Conflict, volume 12, issue 4 (2019), pp. 373-391
"With a focus on entertainment education, this article sheds light on the effects of radio drama in addressing conflict over land governance. The discussion is built around the broadcast of Bush Wahala radio series during the recent land acquisition process that has taken place in Sierra Leone. Thro
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Participatory Communication, Theatre and Peace: Performance as a Tool for Change at the End of Conflict
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 44, issue 1 (2018), pp. 34-54
"This article presents insights on a participatory theatre initiative implemented in Kenya, with the aim of understanding the changes that were initiated towards the re-establishment of peace between communities. The project was carried out in the aftermath of the post-election violence that took pl
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Evaluating the Use of Communication for Development in Conflict Interventions: Measuring Peace in Participatory Communication
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 96-112
"The application of Communication for Development (C4D) in conflict prevention, conflict reduction and post-conflict reconstruction interventions is a relatively new field. International organisations that have begun to adopt new communication & media designs in their peace work are progressively of
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Media Approaches to Communicating for Development: Communication for Development Roundtable
Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) (2017), 13 pp.
"In June 2017, a group of researchers from Australian universities and practitioners from different not-for-profit organisations came together to share knowledge and experience in the study and practice of Communication for Development (C4D). This Roundtable was organised as a side-event to the RDI
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Citizen Engagement in Peacebuilding: A Communication for Development Approach to Rebuilding Peace from the Bottom-Up
Progress in Development Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (2016), pp. 1-13
"By unearthing the connections between the literatures on participatory communica-tion and civic engagement with the reality of postconflict peace, this article demonstrates how a communication for development (C4D) approach to engaging citizens in peacebuilding contributes to strengthening the reco
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Building Peace Through Social Change Communication: Participatory Video in Conflict-Affected Communities
Community Development Journal, volume 50, issue 1 (2015), pp. 121-137
"This paper draws on the experience of conducting participatory video in the Rift Valley of Kenya after the 2007–2008 post-election crisis, when the country underwent a period of intense ethnic violence. By linking development communication to conflict transformation theory, this article offers a
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Communication for Development Approaches in the Australian NGO Sector and Academia
Sydney; Melbourne: School of the Arts & Media University of New South Wales; Institute for Human Security & Social Change La Trobe University (2015), 13 pp.
"In June 2015 a group of academic researchers from Australian universities and practitioners from Australian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) came together to discuss the use of communication for development (C4D) in their present and future work. The seminar was organised as a pre-conference t
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Participatory Photography for Peace: Using Images to Open Up Dialogue After Violence
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, volume 10, issue 3 (2015), pp. 74-88
"This article begins with a literature review of Participatory Photography (PP) that highlights how this tool has been mostly implemented for action research, advocacy, and public health purposes. It shows how scholars have only quite recently begun to recognise its ability to generate change among
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Communication for Development in Peacebuilding: Directions on Research and Evaluation for an Emerging Field
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 6 (2015), pp. 801-817
"This article highlights the key areas in which Communication for Development (C4D) can play a role in the aftermath of conflict, with a focus both at the community and at the national level. It provides an overview of the literature that has begun to discuss C4D in the light of peace creation. It i
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Telling Stories of War Through the Screen: Participatory Video Approaches and Practice for Peace in Conflict-Affected Contexts
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 13, issue 1 (2014), pp. 1-9
"By bringing together literatures of Communication for Development and Conflict Transformation, this paper provides a theoretical illustration of the impact of participatory video as a tool for overcoming hostility among groups, as well as for healing and re-connecting communities that have endured
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