THE ROLE OF MEDIA ON REGIONAL CONFLICT OF SOUTH ASIA
Sheikh Mohiuddin Ahmed,
Student ID: 10211251
Third Assignment (CM570)
Research Proposal:
THE ROLE OF MEDIA ON REGIONAL CONFLICT OF SOUTH ASIA
Conflicts over the sharing of river water in South Asia
Introduction:
Purpose of this paper is to propose my research topic on a particular subject matter of my interest. This proposal will identify a particular research question which I want to address and as well as the justification of the subject for why the proposal is worthwhile. I will provide detail of my plan how could I carry out the research.
South Asian countries are Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. Though they have a regional organisation for cooperation namely SAARC but conflicts are also continuing between the countries. In this study my aim to focus on the conflicts over the regional water sharing of rivers in South Asian countries India-Bangladesh and India-Pakistan. Then on that perspective I will find the research question.
To analyse the disputes and the information to find the research question I will use the news data from India and Bangladeshi print media, particularly the daily newspaper sources of the two particular countries. The dispute over water sharing between India and Pakistan is not in a serious situation than India and Bangladesh. But the main water sources linked with all of them even with China and Nepal also, so that more or less the region in affected. But for reason of the governments’ policies the newspapers role also different in those countries and more or less the media represent the policies of their respective governments.
I will find the news from The Indian Times, The New Nation (Bangladesh) and The Dawn (Pakistan) and the time period of the news sources would be 2005-2009 AD.
Background:
The river Brahmaputra rises in Tibet and flows through India to the border of Bangladesh where it merges with the Ganga - Padma. Of the total catchment area of the
Student ID: 10211251
Third Assignment (CM570)
Research Proposal:
THE ROLE OF MEDIA ON REGIONAL CONFLICT OF SOUTH ASIA
Conflicts over the sharing of river water in South Asia
Introduction:
Purpose of this paper is to propose my research topic on a particular subject matter of my interest. This proposal will identify a particular research question which I want to address and as well as the justification of the subject for why the proposal is worthwhile. I will provide detail of my plan how could I carry out the research.
South Asian countries are Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. Though they have a regional organisation for cooperation namely SAARC but conflicts are also continuing between the countries. In this study my aim to focus on the conflicts over the regional water sharing of rivers in South Asian countries India-Bangladesh and India-Pakistan. Then on that perspective I will find the research question.
To analyse the disputes and the information to find the research question I will use the news data from India and Bangladeshi print media, particularly the daily newspaper sources of the two particular countries. The dispute over water sharing between India and Pakistan is not in a serious situation than India and Bangladesh. But the main water sources linked with all of them even with China and Nepal also, so that more or less the region in affected. But for reason of the governments’ policies the newspapers role also different in those countries and more or less the media represent the policies of their respective governments.
I will find the news from The Indian Times, The New Nation (Bangladesh) and The Dawn (Pakistan) and the time period of the news sources would be 2005-2009 AD.
Background:
The river Brahmaputra rises in Tibet and flows through India to the border of Bangladesh where it merges with the Ganga - Padma. Of the total catchment area of the