Utilizing a Positive Deviance Approach to Reduce Girls’ Trafficking in Indonesia: Asset-Based Communicative Acts that Make a Difference

• In Event: It's All in the Mix: The Diversity Within Intercultural Communication Scholarship

Abstract

This paper analyzes the communicative practices that undergird the Positive Deviance approach to social change and its contributions to the curbing of girls’ trafficking in rural Indonesia. Positive Deviance hinges on the premise that in every community there are individuals whose uncommon practices enable them to find better solutions to problems than their neighbors with access to the same resources. Positive Deviance is time and skills intensive, yet rich in communication and relational practices.

Authors

• Lucia Dura, University of Texas, El Paso

• Arvind Singhal, University of Texas, El Paso