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Development
is absolute, inevitable and universal. It has three dimensions –
people centered development, global development and sustainable
development. To achieve this, there should be information-sharing
about development agenda and planned actions. This communication can
be in the form of dissemination, guidelines, recommendations,
sensitization, advocacy, education, conversation, fundraising or
counselling. Development communication links planners, beneficiaries
and implementers of development action. It is achieved through the
media or other communication networks, by circulating knowledge that
will inform people of significant events, opportunities, dangers,
and changes in their community. It teaches ideas, skills and
attitudes that people need to achieve for a better life. The media
can inspire people for better life, as it endows a person with the
capacity to imagine about a new developed situation. Besides this,
the communication channels help the diffusion of innovative ideas to
the people. In short, development communication helps people to be
informed, persuaded and educated. It also ensures the grassroots
participation and communication in the development process.
Keeping
this concept in mind, the Department of Development Communication (DDC)
sensitizes the people to the countless developmental concerns
through development support communication. At present, the
department publishes a quarterly magazine, XIVANI, a student
magazine The Catalyst and a quarterly journal, Vikas Vani
Journal. XID Publications, a new initiative of the Institute
publishes at least two scholarly books a year on development-related
themes. The department is in the process of making documentaries,
posters, etc., based on various development issues. It also offers
training programmes in the areas of health communication, watershed
communication, and sanitation communication, etc., to the grassroots
level people. Apart from development communication, it also offers
training programmes on social communication and information
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XID Publications is a new
initiative of the Institute, which publishes books on
sustainable development. The main objective of XID Publications
is to empower the powerless by reaching out to the world of
policy makers development organization and agencies and people
of goodwill, who are interested in making the world more human
and more humane. All our books received high appreciation from
development workers as well as practitioners.
It will welcome scripts for publication from any
scholar any where, provided the findings and conclusions are
based on scientific methods and the matter covered is original
and it is acceptable to the general policy and thrust of the
Institute.
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Vikas Vani
Journal
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Xavier
Institute has a quarterly research journal -- Vikas Vani
Journal -- which carries research articles and reflections
and also book reviews, particularly of books dealing with
management and development.
These articles and reflections will be written both by
the staff members of XIDAS as well as other scholars from anywhere,
solicited or unsolicited. Any external contributor, whose article is
published, will receive a suitable remuneration.
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XIDAS has its
own quarterly newsletter, under the title "XIVANI".
This publication reaches several hundred organizations and
individuals and it carries news about XIDAS and its programmes.
It also carries the reflections and views of individual staff
members and students. Further, it publishes some information
about like-minded development partners and also interesting news
items on management and development, extracted from newspapers
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The MBA-RM students bring out their own
journal under the title "The Catalyst". So far this journal
was published annually. However, from January 2007, it will be a
quarterly publication, in which the students will publish their own
research studies, views, reflections, some news about their activities
and achievements.
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