Analysis of War and Peace Related Photographs in Afghanistan Print Media

Abstract

The researcher investigates the conflict in photographs of two Afghani newspapers daily Kabul Times and daily Weesa related to Afghanistan war in this research. The time period assigned for the study was six months — from July l, 2018 to December 31, 2018. This quantitative content analysis of the photographs, on one hand, depicted the current war in the country; it helped to determine whether the photographs conform to the perspective of peace and war journalism approaches, on the other. Such an approach seemed significant for know how the visual depictions of Afghanistan war were conducted and what appropriate conceptual and methodological tools existed in this regard. The finding showed that Kabul Times contributed more peace frames than war in pictures while covering war in the country. Weesa newspaper has given the more space to war frame instead of peace in its pictures. Overall, the results of the study suggest that peace framed pictures were comparatively more than the war framed pictures, in terms of contents in particular. So, the study seems to be very optimistic about the outcome of the ongoing peace negotiations between Taliban and USA and this study recommends that the future research in the area must focus on the media visual frame of intra-negotiations between the government and Taliban.