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  • Exploring the use of public relations in organising activism: Implications for addressing gender-based violence in the developing world

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    Ali, Habib Mohammad
    Boddy, Jennifer
    O'Leary, Patrick
    Ewart, Jacqueline
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    Ewart, Jacqueline A.
    Boddy, Jennifer
    O'Leary, Patrick J.
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    2016
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    Abstract
    Public relations (PR) offers strategies that may create positive change in response to gender-based violence (GV). It can be transformative in influencing people’s attitudes and choices. However, PR has traditionally focussed on managing relations with stakeholders to build the image of corporate institutions. This has meant that the professional and academic interests of PR have often become aligned with profit-making institutions. Instead, from a critical perspective, PR can be used in non-profit sectors, including non-government or voluntary organisations with an interest in organising campaigns to promote community health ...
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    Public relations (PR) offers strategies that may create positive change in response to gender-based violence (GV). It can be transformative in influencing people’s attitudes and choices. However, PR has traditionally focussed on managing relations with stakeholders to build the image of corporate institutions. This has meant that the professional and academic interests of PR have often become aligned with profit-making institutions. Instead, from a critical perspective, PR can be used in non-profit sectors, including non-government or voluntary organisations with an interest in organising campaigns to promote community health and wellbeing. It can function as a discursive tool to promote the voices of marginalised people to transform society and promote equality. Such an example can be found in activism against GV. Literature on activism against GV is reviewed in this paper to identify how PR strategies are used amongst activists to organise campaigns. The use of PR has appeared as a community action tool and as an individual communicative technique to organise activists, to promote the GV agenda, and to attain public support for eliminating GV. The value of PR in addressing difficult issues such as GV offers hope, especially in the developing world where large scale social intervention programs are not feasible.
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    Journal Title
    Asia Pacific Public Relations Journal
    Volume
    17
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    https://novaojs.newcastle.edu.au/apprj/index.php/apprj/article/view/77
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2016. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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    Criminology
    Communication and media studies
    Organisational, interpersonal and intercultural communication
    Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/100786
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