Role of news media in the peacebuilding process
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https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.2Keywords:
News media,, Peace, Peacebuilding, media, media networks, media technology, peace process, social orderAbstract
This research study attempts to inspect the job of the news media in a continuous peace process. This study also clarifies the peace contemplates and the current media rehearses at the local, national and international levels. Media networks are quickly reworking the conventional standards and conventions of war and struggle to announce. The qualitative descriptive research methodology has been used for this paper. This research has been conducted on the case study research because it involves a deep dive and thorough understanding of the data collection methods and inferring the data. Various research studies conducted during the period from 2000-2021 have been examined and selected for the present study. According to the research studies, media networks are quickly reworking the conventional standards and conventions of war and struggle to announce. This article supports the claim that researchers may promote social order and network peace-building efforts with the use of new media technologies. Their compositions in alternative media may offer a compelling form of commitment between the audiences and people affected in the area of a terrible battle.
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