Conflicts and the dilemma of media intervention: An educational information management perspective

Peter Eshioke Egielewa; Blessed Frederick Ngonso; Kingsley Eghonghon Ukhurebor; Sefinat Omuya; Ibikunle Petu; Udochukwu Chidiebere Nwankwo; Ekene Ezinwa Nwankwo; Benjamin Maxwell Eneche; Kennedy E. Ketebu; Fadera Ebrima

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Conflicts and the dilemma of media intervention: An educational information management perspective

Peter Eshioke Egielewa

Blessed Frederick Ngonso

Kingsley Eghonghon Ukhurebor

Sefinat Omuya

Ibikunle Petu

Udochukwu Chidiebere Nwankwo

Ekene Ezinwa Nwankwo

Benjamin Maxwell Eneche

Kennedy E. Ketebu

Fadera Ebrima

Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development 2024, 8(5), 2956; https://doi.org/10.24294/jipd.v8i5.2956

Submitted：28 Sept 2023

Accepted：06 Nov 2023

Published：22 Apr 2024

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Abstract

Conflicts are inevitable in any human community, despite the fact that they are never desirable. One of the characteristics of the contemporary world is conflict. Different parties participate in disputes (individuals, organizations, and states). When disputes arise, interventionist methods are put into action. Conflicts arise in a variety of ways, such as disagreement, rage, quarrelling, hatred, destruction, killing, or war, because human requirements are diverse. Conflict takes many different shapes, and so do interventions. Individuals, groups (both local and foreign), and governments can all intervene in a conflict. The media and its functions are up for debate among those who mediate disputes. Can the media be seen as intervening in a dispute, or are they merely performing their mandated duties? The diversity of opinions is what drives conversations in peace journalism. In addition, peace journalism promotes media engagement and intervention in conflict situations in order to lessen and end conflict. Media intervention, according to some critics, is not objective journalism because those in charge of educational information management and journalists are not expected to make decisions about the news; rather, they should just tell it as they see it. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to examine the idea of conflict, the stages of conflict development, interventions in conflicts, and the contentious position of the media in conflicts from an educational information management perspective. Hence, this paper will contribute to the role of educational information management via social media and other new media platforms, which have occasionally been used to hold governments responsible, unite people in protest of violence, plan relief operations, empower people, dissipate tensions via knowledge sharing, and create understanding across boundaries.

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