Edo Residents’ Perception of Channels Television Role in 1 Resolving Herdsmen/farmers Crisis

Student: Jennifer Aisosa Agbontaen (Project, 2025)
Department of Mass Communication
Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State

Abstract

Abstract 9 The assessed the role of the mass media in conflict management. Violent spates of the longstanding conflict between herders and farmers in Nigeria have become amplified and persistent in recent times, and these have naturally elicited media focus. The media, ordinarily, are a major player during periods of conflict as they can influence the direction of a conflict situation and the public’s understanding and interpretation of conflict issues. Using the survey research method, this study examined coverage patterns of the herders-farmers conflict. Findings showed that the mass media were majorly reliant on government officials, security operatives and victims/eyewitnesses as sources of their reports on the herders-farmers conflict. The newspapers indicated herders as the principal perpetrators of violence, framing the herders-farmers conflict more as criminal attacks by herders on farming communities than as resource-use clashes between both parties. It was also discovered that the newspapers in their editorial reactions were mainly critical of the Nigerian government’s level of intervention in the herders-farmers conflict.

Keywords
residents perception channels television resolving herdsmenfarmers crisis RESOLUTION AMNESTY
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