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标题：Reporting Sectarian Incidents: Examining the escalatory and de-escalatory discourses in the Pakistan News Media
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作者：Mohammad Zubair Iqbal ; Shabir Hussain
期刊名称：Journal of Political Studies
印刷版ISSN：1994-1080
电子版ISSN：2308-8338
出版年度：2017
卷号：24
期号：2
出版社：University of the Punjab, Lahore
摘要：This study investigates the role of news media on reporting the sectarian conflict in Pakistan.The available scholarship suggests that media is a double-edge sword which can become animportant tool to promote religious harmony and ease tension between the warring groups andat the same time it can escalate tension by exaggerating events and becoming mouthpiece ofwar-mongers. The researcher borrows key notions from peace journalism scholarship andapplies it at a national setting. The quantitative and qualitative analyses reveal that the newsmedia showed responsibility, exercised restraint and prioritized popular perspective whilereporting on sectarian tension in the country. The study supports the key assertion in peacejournalism that conflict escalation can be averted if journalists are sensitized about theconsequences of irresponsible reporting especially in nascent democracies like Pakistan.
关键词：Peace journalism; sectarianism; sufferers; religious identities;responsibility; societal peace.