“Let’s Draw a Line between Dos and Don’ts”: Pakistani Journalists’ Perspectives about the Ethics of Conflict-Sensitive Reporting

In conflict-ridden countries, the news media has a pivotal role to perform as an active advocate of human rights and societal peace, well facilitator conflict mitigation resolution through gathering dissemination non-partisan information. While today world witness armed conflicts in more forms than ever before, some countries are sensitive violence—such Pakistan. The country is recognized one riskiest places for working journalists by virtue recurrent political, ethnic, religious conflicts. Pakistani work climate fear risks with opposing groups seeking influence media, which creates difficulties them report unbiased accurate public. practice ethics become challenging because lacks effective standardized code conduct on conflict. Therefore, drawing theory triangle Galtung, this study seeks journalists’ perspectives about reporting. doing so, uses quantitative method survey qualitative in-depth interviews. descriptive analysis present findings form percentage thematic interview data.