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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 technology.

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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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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XIVANI

The Catalyst 

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 and magazines.

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.