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Conclusion: Some Suggestions for Communication for Development and Social Change

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This concluding chapter tries to summarize the main points made by the contributors in this book, and makes connections to previous exercises in this regard. It also addresses the often assumed gap between theory and practice in development communication.

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    Jan Servaes, Nicholas Carah, Martin Hadlow, Eric Louw, Pradip Thomas (University of Queensland), Silvia Balit (independent consultant), Maria Celeste Cadiz (University of the Philippines Los banos), Nabil Dajani (American University of Beirut), Cees Hamelink (University of Amsterdam), Tom Jacobson (Temple University), Ullamaija Kivikuru (University of Helsinki), John Mayo (Florida State University), Rafael Obregon (Ohio University), Doug Storey (John Hopkins University), Thomas Tufte (Roskilde University), and Karin Gwinn Wilkins (University of Texas at Austin).

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    For an interesting assessment of the WCCD congress, see Enghel (2013).

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    For critical assessments of the theory-praxis-aid discussion, see Gumucio (2009), Ganesh and Zoller (2012), or Habermann and Langthaler (2010).

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Servaes, J. (2021). Conclusion: Some Suggestions for Communication for Development and Social Change. In: Servaes, J. (eds) Learning from Communicators in Social Change. Communication, Culture and Change in Asia, vol 7. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8281-3_17

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