A Multidimensional Approach to Conflict Analysis: The Russo-Chechen Conflict

Askerov, Ali

doi:10.12959/issn.1855-0541.iiass-2008-no3-art03

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“…When the Chechens declared independence from Russia in late 1991, a new stage of the Russo-Chechen conflict started. Multiple causes of the conflict had escalated it into a war in 1994 (Askerov, 2008;. During the First Chechen War (1994)(1995)(1996), both the Russian and foreign press played a significant role in covering the news in the conflict zone.…”

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Media, like religion, may create, escalate, or deescalate conflict. In the age of technology, parties to protracted conflicts often use the media for their propaganda purposes. In many cases, despite politically created discourses, individual media members struggle to reveal the truth of the violent confrontation that causes human casualties. This paper discusses Moscow's tough media policy during the Chechen wars, especially from 1999 to 2009 during the Second Chechen War, and argues that Kremlin's severe media policy in the course of the height of this violent conflict negatively affected the values of democracy in Russia. Nonetheless, Russia's new media policy had affected different media means differently depending on their missions and commitment. To produce this paper, data were collected through interviewing twentytwo Chechen nationals, including media experts, and randomly analyzing the contents of the Russian media and Chechen websites available online.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%