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Citizen engagement in peacebuilding: A communication for development approach to rebuilding peace from the bottom-up (Progress in Development Studies 16:4 2016)

November 16, 2016

By unearthing the connections between the literatures on participatory communication and civic engagement with the reality of post conflict peace, this article demonstrates how a communication for development (C4D) approach to engaging citizens in peacebuilding contributes to strengthening the reconstruction process at the end of the violence, while engendering a bottom up process based on dialogue and inclusivity. After offering a brief overview of the peacebuilding contexts, this article by Valentina Bau presents a theoretical discussion that brings to the surface not only the role of C4D in facilitating citizens participation in government decision making, but also its significance in creating an inclusive peacebuilding process that starts from the community. At the same time, this discussion begins to shed light on the relationship between communication for development and participatory governance.

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Full reference: Baú, V. (2016) Citizen engagement in peacebuilding: A communication for development approach to rebuilding peace from the bottom-up, Progress in Development Studies, Vol.16, No.4 , doi 10.1177/1464993416663052

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Filed Under: Civic Education, Participation, Peace & Social Cohesion Tagged With: Citizen engagement, Peacebuilding

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