{"id":15241,"date":"2022-07-12T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/?p=15241"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:31:35","slug":"acdc-news-issue-22-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/acdc-news-issue-22-07\/","title":{"rendered":"July News and Research from the ACDC – Issue 22-07"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rural youths in India turn into citizen journalists<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cAt a time when the International Human Rights Day was being celebrated with much excitement across the world, a silent story of change was being scripted in the community hall\u201d of a small town in northern India. So began a recent article in The Hans India<\/em>. It explained how rural youths were telling government officials about challenges plaguing their villages. As citizen journalists, they discussed issues such as child marriage, problems of dowry, gender discrimination, wearing Ghoonghat Pratha, suffering from hunger, and casteism.<\/p>\n

The district collector commended students for advancing the important role of media as a pillar of democracy and for helping build nationhood.<\/p>\n

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You can read the article online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A call:\u00a0 Let\u2019s expand constructive efforts to address destructive social conflicts<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Recently we added to the ACDC collection a 13-page road map to address the \u201cdestructive-conflict-as-usual way in which the U.S. and so many other societies now commonly address complex, large-scale, intractable conflicts\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

It was written in 2019 by Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess of the Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado. They argue that such conflicts represent the single greatest threat to humanity and the planet. They drafted this statement to describe the challenge and invite suggestions for a broad collaborative effort to manage conflict in constructive rather than destructive ways.<\/p>\n

You can read the statement here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a lot the Postal Service can do\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A new document in ACDC features a 202l interview with Lisa Graves, political activist and senior fellow of the Center for Media and Democracy. She emphasized the unique, valuable role of the U.S. Postal Service and identified several ways in which it might be more fully engaged in public service. Among the ideas she suggested:<\/p>\n