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Responsive Programming: A Model for Developing Conflict Resolution Media and Other Interventions Based on the Work of Talking Drum Studio Monrovia, Liberia

Common Ground Productions (1999), 24 pp.
"This paper is an exploration of different approaches to programming for conflict resolution media and its complementary interventions. It presents a new model for media communicators to use in creating programming focused on peacebuilding. It is based on the authors' recent mission to Liberia to assess the work of Talking Drum Studio, a conflict resolution organization of media producers, journalists, and activists [...] The objectives of our research and evaluation mission to Talking Drum Studio in Monrovia, Liberia included an evaluation of the processes they use to develop conflict resolution media. We formally observed what TDS is doing on a day-to-day basis, and worked with them to generate for us and for them a clear understanding of the procedures that they employ. We analyzed the procedures and put them together in a framework that accurately characterized what they do. With the addition of a more formal assessment component, that framework became the “Responsive Programming Model” that we describe in this report. (Introduction)
Tallking Drum Studio: Conflict Resolution Communicators, 3
Intended Outcomes for Peacebuilding, 5
Curriculum-based and Responsive Programming: A Combined Approach to Achieving Intended Conflict Resolution Outcomes at Talking Drum Studio,8
Responsive Programming": The New Model for Conflict Resolution Communicators, 12
Ongoing Research to Support Curriculum and Responsive Programming Approaches, 20