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Emancipatory and Participatory Methodologies in Peace, Critical, and Community Psychology pp 33–44Cite as

Community Radio as a Vehicle for Social Change in Conflict-Affected Settings

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This chapter provides an overview of the background, design, and applications of community radio as an engaged and participatory method for bringing about social change. We discuss a community radio education-entertainment (edutainment) campaign in the Great Lakes Region of Africa (i.e., Burundi, Rwanda, and Democratic Republic of Congo) that aims to bring about social change by preventing cycles of violence, reducing prejudice, and promoting intergroup reconciliation. We describe the challenging process of developing this mass media intervention in collaboration with local communities, including the involvement of diverse stakeholders and incorporation of audience feedback. We also discuss the mixed influence of the edutainment campaign on supporting social change in different sociopolitical settings.

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  1. Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Yeshim Iqbal & Rezarta Bilali

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  1. Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Mohamed Seedat

  2. South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, Cape Town, South Africa

    Shahnaaz Suffla

  3. Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Daniel J. Christie

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Iqbal, Y., Bilali, R. (2017). Community Radio as a Vehicle for Social Change in Conflict-Affected Settings. In: Seedat, M., Suffla, S., Christie, D. (eds) Emancipatory and Participatory Methodologies in Peace, Critical, and Community Psychology. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63489-0_4

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