Media Framing on Armed Conflicts: Limits of Peace Journalism on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. Issue 4 (7th August 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Atanesyan, Arthur
• Is Part Of: Journal of intervention and statebuilding. Volume 14:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 534
• Page End: 550
• Publication Date: 2020-08-07
• Subjects: Media framing -- peace journalism -- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict -- freedom of the media; Intervention (International law) -- Periodicals; Nation-building -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Periodicals; Postwar reconstruction -- Periodicals; International cooperation -- Periodicals; 320
• DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2020.1780018
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1750-2977

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Media framing and coverage of contemporary armed conflicts largely focus on the defence of national security and war propaganda. The concept of peace journalism draws on the Galtung tradition and provides a toolkit for opposing war journalism and contributing to reconciliation. By examining the case of media framing of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, this article asks whether and why peace journalism is possible in the given political context. Our study of limited peace journalism shows that traditions of war journalism are predominant and points to limitations of liberal instruments in (semi-)authoritarian post-Soviet conflict contexts.