British Public Perception towards Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
This article seeks to explore the perception of the British informants regarding the Afghanistan war 2001 and Iraq war 2003. Heavy users of British media were interviewed. The present article adopts the qualitative approach and ten in-depth interviews were conducted by the British informants. It was found that the British informants considered the 9/11 attacks as a tragic incident and Al Qaeda was held responsible for this. They supported their governments policies to curb terrorism but they highly condemned human causalities during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Particularly, they condemned their governments policy about Iraq war 2003. Regarding, the British media coverage of these wars, there was mixed opinion. Some of them considered that British media gave biased coverage to the wars however; few thought that media adopted a balanced approach. Overall, they stressed that the government should take responsible action against terrorism and human causalities should be avoided.
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Public perception, British media, Iraq war, Afghanistan war
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(1) Aasima Safdar
Assistant Professor,Department of Communication studies,Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Samia Manzoor
Assistant Professor,Department of Communication studies,Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Ayesha Qamar
Lecturer Department of Communication & Media studies,Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Safdar, A., Manzoor, S., & Qamar, A. (2018). British Public Perception towards Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Global Regional Review, III(I), 503-517. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2018(III-I).37
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CHICAGO : Safdar, Aasima, Samia Manzoor, and Ayesha Qamar. 2018. "British Public Perception towards Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." Global Regional Review, III (I): 503-517 doi: 10.31703/grr.2018(III-I).37
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HARVARD : SAFDAR, A., MANZOOR, S. & QAMAR, A. 2018. British Public Perception towards Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Global Regional Review, III, 503-517.
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MHRA : Safdar, Aasima, Samia Manzoor, and Ayesha Qamar. 2018. "British Public Perception towards Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." Global Regional Review, III: 503-517
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MLA : Safdar, Aasima, Samia Manzoor, and Ayesha Qamar. "British Public Perception towards Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." Global Regional Review, III.I (2018): 503-517 Print.
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OXFORD : Safdar, Aasima, Manzoor, Samia, and Qamar, Ayesha (2018), "British Public Perception towards Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq", Global Regional Review, III (I), 503-517
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TURABIAN : Safdar, Aasima, Samia Manzoor, and Ayesha Qamar. "British Public Perception towards Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." Global Regional Review III, no. I (2018): 503-517. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2018(III-I).37