Coverage of Taliban conflict in the Pak–Afghan press: A comparative analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shabir Hussain ◽  
Syed Abdul Siraj
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Media Content ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
The Press ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
War Journalism ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Peace And Conflict Resolution

This study offers a quantitative analysis of the coverage of Taliban conflict in the four leading newspapers of Pakistan and Afghanistan through the perspective of war and peace journalism—developed by Johan Galtung and adopted by many scholars. Consistent with the existing literature, the researcher found that both the English and vernacular press in the two countries predominantly reported the Taliban conflict through war journalism framing. The local press was equally escalatory while reporting on the conflict. The press in the two countries showed remarkable differences in the war journalism framing but applied similar thematic strategies of peace journalism. The study advocates an academic juncture between political communication and peace journalism scholarship to identify the issues that influence media content during conflict times for better understanding of the potential role of media in peace and conflict resolution.

scholarly journals Media, War, and Peace: A Post Pulwama Comparative Study of India and Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 357-368
Author(s):  
Dr. Farasat Rasool ◽  
Mr. Arif Ahmad ◽  
Zeeshan Zaighum
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
National Security ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
States Data ◽  
The Media ◽  
War Journalism ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Elite Newspapers

According to Johan Galtung’s theory, war journalism and peace journalism are two frames. Peace journalism is a solution oriented while war journalism escalates conflicts. This study aims at comparatively exploring the nature of coverage during a conflict. This paper examines the role of the Pakistani and Indian elite press after the Pulwama attack, leading to the Balakot airstrike. For the collection of data, researchers have selected four leading elite newspapers i.e. two from Pakistan and two from India. The researchers have collected two month’s data after the incident of Pulwama leading to air craft conflict between the two states. Data is collected through content analysis which is further analyzed. The findings indicated that the media with dominate war frames compromise national security.

From ‘People's Struggle’ to ‘This War of Today’: Entanglements of Peace and Conflict in Guinea-Bissau

Africa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Padrão Temudo
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Urban Elite ◽  
Client Relations ◽  
Partial Consensus

This article aims at contributing to our understanding of violence and warfare in contemporary West Africa by adopting a bi-focal analysis that looks both at power struggles within the urban elite and at the grassroots multi-ethnic setting in southern Guinea-Bissau. I pay close attention to the social dynamics of rural peoples' perspectives, coping strategies and inter-ethnic conflicts. Local conflicts are elucidated as an ongoing process that traverses times of war and peace. Although they are subject to manipulation by urban actors, local conflicts are also a matter of continuous negotiation and partial consensus at the grassroots. In stark contrast to this, the struggles in the ruling group are characterized by an escalating spiral of factionalism, diminishing compromises and elimination of rivals. By analysing the relationship between urban and rural actors and the role of cosmology, the article also aims to shed new light on the multiple shapes patron–client relations can assume in Africa.

scholarly journals Leadership and Education for National Security: The Role of Educational Managers

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Eimuhi J. O.
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Educational Management ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Core Subject ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Government ◽  
Peace And Conflict Resolution

This paper looked at leadership and education for national security: the role of educational management. This paper posits that leadership and education are vital tools to maintaining national security in Nigeria. The challenges to national security in Nigeria ranges from Boko Haram insurgency, Fulani herdsmen killings, kidnapping and adoption of school children, ethnic and tribal crises, among others. It was suggested that for maintenance of peace and security in the country, the educational managers must ensure that core subject areas in the school curricula are emphasized such as civic education, social studies and peace and conflict resolution studies as well as entrepreneurship and vocational subjects for self employment. The government on her part must ensure that unemployment rate is reduced.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE 18TH ASIAN GAME IN THE PEACE OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Nadia Abdul Rodhi ◽  
Arie Kusuma Paksi
Keyword(s):  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Sports Diplomacy ◽  
Current State ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Peace And Conflict Resolution ◽  
North And South ◽  
Analyze Data

This journal examines the role of the 18th Asia Game as a diplomatic tool in the Korean peninsula conflict in 2018, specifically in promoting peace on the Korean Peninsula. This journal aims to describe and analyze the effectiveness of sports or Olympics affiliated with the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) as a unifying tool in pushing for reunification opportunities on the Korean Peninsula. The 18th Asian Games, on the other hand, has played an essential role in uniting North and South Korea into one unit under the same flag in a variety of ways that have had a positive impact on peace between the two countries. This study employs qualitative research methods, such as literature review and triangulation, to collect data. A descriptive-analytical approach was used to collect and analyze data. This study's analysis employs sports diplomacy theory to examine the effectiveness of sports in resolving conflicts on the Korean Peninsula. Because the current state of the Korean peninsula has not entirely resulted in the ideals of the two countries' reunification, the theory of sports diplomacy can identify the factors that support the reduced intensity of the Korean Peninsula's cold war. One of the factors is the role of sport as a tool of sports diplomacy, which has increased opportunities for promoting peace and conflict resolution to reach a peace agreement between the two parties and eventually lead to reunification.

scholarly journals Sectarian Conflict in Elite Newspapers of Pakistan: A Peace Journalism Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol volume 05 (issue 2) ◽  
pp. 341-350
Author(s):  
Dr. Yaseen Sultana Farooqi ◽  
Dr.Usman Quddus ◽  
Nasir Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sectarian Conflict ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Underdeveloped Nation ◽  
Elite Newspapers

Mass Media occupies a significant place in contemporary era of volatile changes and in a country like Pakistan, which is hovered by internal and external conflicts since its inception, it turns pivotal. The geo-strategic depth and ethno-political structure of the country has highlighted the sensitivity of media reporting and its implications on a wider scale. The ingrained private media outlets in 2000 have grown mature over the past 20 years. Yet the reporting dilemmas haunt the underdeveloped nation. The present study aims to explore the emerging sectarian unrest in the country and its coverage in elite English newspapers Dawn and The News over the years 22019, 2021 using census technique to examine the existence and frequency of war and peace frames by John Galtung, and thus finds the role of media escalatory in nature.

Imperative of Peace and Conflict-Sensitive Journalism in Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Jide Jimoh ◽  
Jimi Kayode
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
The West ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
The Media ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Peace And Development

Even though the role of the media in development has long been recognized, more attention has been given to their role as purveyors and disseminators of news and little on how such news are framed. Against this background, this chapter looks at the nexus of peace and development and the role of journalism in the mix. The concept of development journalism as a kind of deliberative effort, may have received some impetus and the practice established, as governments, policy makers, scholars and practitioners assign developmental roles to the mass media beyond the ideas from the West. Similarly, the notion of peace journalism emerged as a dimension of development journalism. Originally conceived by the eminent peace scholar, Johan Galtung, the Peace Journalism model is a source of practical options for journalists which shows backgrounds and contexts of conflicts, explores hidden agendas, highlights peace ideas and initiatives in news coverage of conflicts and therefore is recommended for consideration by journalists especially in developing nations.

Examining perceptions towards war/peace journalism: A survey of journalists in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan

2021 ◽  
pp. 174804852110156
Author(s):  
Shabir Hussain ◽  
Araz Ramazan Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Factors ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
The World ◽  
War Journalism ◽  
Peace Journalism

Following seminal study on journalistic attitudes towards wars and peace journalism, in this study we investigated the perceptions of conflict reporters in the three most deadly countries in the world including Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. A total of 317 journalists participated in this study. Though generally we found support for the earlier study, the analysis shows journalists engage in wider practices than predicted that overlap war and peace journalism approaches. A closer examination showed that journalists favored active war journalism practices and passive peace journalism practices. Finally, we did not find that journalistic experience and contextual factors influenced preferences towards war and peace journalism substantially.

scholarly journals The Role of Education in Implementing Social Justice

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-156
Author(s):  
Zahra Seif-Amirhosseini
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
American University ◽  
International Service ◽  
Conflict Resolution Education ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Global Peace ◽  
The University ◽  
Peace And Conflict Resolution

In honor of World Day of Social Justice, on February 24, 2014, Shia RightsWatch and American University held the first-ever conference devoted to presentingnew paradigms for exploring how the rights of the minority Shia Muslimcommunity can be protected against such entrenched realities assubordination, injustice, violence, discrimination, and marginalization. Socialscientists define minority as a culturally, ethnically, religiously, or racially distinctgroup that coexists with, but is subordinate to, a more dominant group.This subordinancy, the chief defining characteristic of any minority, has nothingto do with numbers, a fact perhaps most vividly illustrated by South Africaunder apartheid (c. 1950-91).The conference, held at American University, was cosponsored by theMohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace. Well-known and high caliberpolicymakers, professors, and researchers shared their findings in order tooffer solutions designed to foster peace, tolerance, and religious freedom forthis group and the regions in which they reside.In his capacity as the first occupant of the endowed Mohammed SaidFarsi Chair of Islamic Peace as well as the founder of the university-wideCenter for Global Peace, Abdul Aziz Said (School of International Service,American University) welcomed everyone. He remarked that peace is farmore than the absence of war, that it is, in fact, inclusive of social justice, ecologicalsustainability, sustainable economics, and cultural diversity (peace asthe absence of structural violence). Thus, conflict resolution is one of the buildingblocks of peace. Given that the ends we seek and the means that we employin the study of peace and conflict resolution are interconnected, teachingthese two fields must be based on a pedagogy that is itself peace and notmerely a process of certification. He argued that education about peace andconflict resolution and education for peace and conflict resolution are twosides of the same coin. Peace and conflict resolution education combine informationwith liberation and procedure with transformation. He concluded ...

scholarly journals SEARCHING FOR THE FORGOTTEN: EXAMINING THE ONLINE PRESENCE OF VICTIMS OF POLICE KILLINGS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Pierre ◽  
Morgan Currie ◽  
Britt Paris ◽  
Irene Pasquetto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Social Media Mining ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Media Data ◽  
Official Police ◽  
Media Mining

This paper examines the potential role of social media in enhancing the understanding and perception of victims of police killings and the data collection surrounding these incidents. Through a series of content analysis and social media mining exercises, the authors observe the emergence of three distinct types of social media content offered on victims of police killings: persistence of the deceased’s activity across social media, sensational commentary on videos and blog postings, and memorials on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. As part of a larger investigation of the availability and accessibility of official police homicide data, this paper aims to present social media data as a potentially powerful source of information to supplement quantitative reports. This process may be especially useful for the most affected communities, particularly BIPOC communities.

scholarly journals Constitutional ‘borrowing’ and freedom of expression: Can Australia learn from the US First Amendment?

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Jemimah Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
High Court ◽  
The Us ◽  
Reflective Approach

This article explores the potential role of US free speech doctrine as a source of learning for the High Court in developing its own jurisprudence in a broadly analogous area – the Australian (implied) freedom of political communication. The author argues in favour of a critical and self-reflective approach to this question, where the comparative utility of foreign doctrine is assessed by reference to its use in advancing Australian-specific constitutional commitments and inquiries. The article concludes with a brief worked account of how this might be applied to ‘structural' versus ‘autonomy' driven US doctrine.

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