Author: ed.Dr KH Kabi & Dr. S N Pattnaik

Pages: 116

Format: Hardbound

ISBN: 9789384464752

Size: 6 * 9

Publication Date: Jul 2015

Price:     650/-

Description:

 

The media have a special relationship with conflict situations, external or internal which has been an integral part of the history of a country as well as the world. Northeast India has been beset with insurgencies for more than half-a-century. The Nagas rebelled in the early 1950s and since then insurgency in some form or the other has spread to all the states of the northeast, popularly known as seven sisters.

While insurgency in the northeast India is taking a toll of the law and order, peace, stability, progress and foreign relations; it is also causing irreparable harm to the press, the developments and the decision making process in administration. So, should it be the media’s mission to promote peace, democracy and growth in this region?

 This edited volume contains ten essays written by prominent media persons with first-hand experience of reporting on conflicts in northeast India. It provides the broad range of factors including the manner in which media operates and their relationship to the various ethnic conflicts in the region. This book is perhaps the first of its kind which explored many possibilities how to restore peace and public’s confidence in the region by engaging media as facilitator in the process.

Foreword by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

About the Editors

Dr. Kh. Kabi is an associate professor and head of the Department of Mass Communication at Rajiv Gandhi Central University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.

 Dr. S N. Pattanaik is a media educator and having more than 25 years experience in the field of journalism and communication.

 

Table of Content

Foreword by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

BERTIL LINTNER The Media and Ethnic Conflicts

HAROON HABIB Media, Peace and Conflict: Northeast India and Bangladesh

MONALISA CHANGKIJA Media as Facilitators of Peace

PRADIP PHANJOUBAM Media, Trauma Reporting and Conflict Resolution

SAMIR K PURKAYASTHA Media’s Role in Enforcing Change in Northeast

TERESA REHMAN Reporting Northeast India

SAMUDRA GUPTA KASHYAP Media and Insurgency

RAJEEV BHATTACHARYYA Media’s Role in Facilitating Peace in Conflict Situations in Assam

NIRENDRA DEV Entire World is not ‘Outer Darkness’: Need to Break Free

DARSHANA LIYANAGE Advertising and Ethnicities: A Comparative Study of Sri Lanka and Northeast India