Role of Broadcasting Service in Conflict Resolution

Role of Broadcasting Service in Conflict Resolution.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the Role of Enugu State Broadcasting Service in Conflict Resolution.To achieve this aim, the survey research method was used.

Subjects were drawn from the audience of Enugu North, using simple random sampling technique and purposive sampling technique.

Four research questions guided the study. Research findings showed that Enugu State Broadcasting Service has contributed greatly to conflict resolution through the programmes they aired.

The research also found out that there is a high level of the state government interference in ESBS affairs.

To this end, the researcher recommended that the level of interference of the state government in the affairs of ESBS should be at minimum to ensure efficiency in their discharge of duties.

The researcher suggested that further studies should be carried out on the impact of ESBS in sustainable programmes on conflict resolution. Programmes that aid conflict resolution should be appropriately sponsored to make for continuity.

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Table of Content

Chapter One

Introduction

1.1        Background of the study

1.2        Statement of problem

1.3        Objective of the study

1.4        Research Hypotheses

1.5        Significance of the study

1.6        Scope and limitation of the study

1.7       Definition of terms

1.8       Organization of the study

Chapter Two

2.0   Literature Review

Chapter Three

3.0        Research methodology

3.1    sources of data collection

3.3        Population of the study

3.4        Sampling and sampling distribution

3.5        Validation of research instrument

3.6        Method of data analysis

Chapter Four

Data Presentation and Analysis and Interpretation 

4.1 Introductions

4.2 Data analysis

Chapter Five

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Summary

5.3 Conclusion

5.4 Recommendation

Appendix

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Introduction

Background of the Study

Human beings as social animals have always been embroiled in temporary and continuous disputes and fracas collectively called conflicts since time immemorial.

This come in the form of individuals against individuals, families against families, kingdoms against kingdoms, and more contemporary, countries against countries. Boulding, K. (1989).

According to Pruitt and Robbins, (2002). Conflict can be defined as “The perceived divergence of interest, or a belief that the party‟s current aspirations cannot be achieved simultaneously from gradual interactions between the parties.

They are ultimately a direct result of the given relationships and interactions between species, will in one way or another breed friction and discontent thereby, giving rise to perceived injustice and the attendant frictions and agitations. Bercovitch, J. (2002).

However, the need to be recognized as a member of a unit is such a functional social factor, that any attempt or perceived attempt to undo or ridicule the natural statutes, breeds divergent and friction thereby gradually heating up the system to a toxic edge. Wilson,K.(1988).

Thus, minimizing this friction has become imperative as it has seldom proved impossible to eliminate. This redemption notion has given birth to the theory of “Conflict Resolution‟‟ a brain child of the need for stakeholders to work out a route of any conflict.

Brief History of Enugu State Broadcasting Service [ESBS] Enugu State Broadcasting Services comprises of radio and television outfit.

It has been in existence since independence in the Eastern part of Nigeria since 1960. Enugu State Broadcasting Service was formally known as Eastern Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation [ENBC].

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