This book has shown some examples of different communities towards the social problems that they had and the reaction of that society toward a positive deviance implemented by somebody.
Today I want to discuss related to social problem that our country has faced before the regime and after the 90-es. This problem in Albania is called blood-feud, or the Albanian found in the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjin. The blood-feud has always been more predominant in Albania than in other countries around Balkans.
Nowadays many worldwide organizations have tried to find the positive deviance of this social problem by treating it with the governmental institutions and letting the justice system to resolve these problems. In some cases they have been successful in some cases the abuse in our justice system has shown weakness points where the blood-feud has occurred many times between two families.
Also there are a lot of organizations that protect the children who are victims of these rules and are closed in their place and they are trying to show to the community every time they bring two families together and they forgive the acts that they have done between them and leave the justice system to work the details out.
Even though there is shown a lot of positive deviance on the TV or Media Channel our governmental justice institutions have to increase their performance to stop typical things to occur.
Florian Shushku
I love the idea of looking “for the crazies” or those who manage to succeed against all odds or adapt new practices and ways of thinking without coaching.Regarding the media in Albania I wonder though who is responsible for finding “the crazies” or the positive deviants…is it a leadership initiative, or does it come from those in the newsroom. Do newsroom managers need to be more open-minded and interested in driving change? or does it come from the newsroom employees..producers, reporters, etc who see the value and are willing to stand up and fight for change. I think one of the biggest barriers in newsrooms comes from leaders who are not interested in experimenting or seeking out ideas from their own staff.
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