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Radio in Afghanistan: socially useful communications in wartime Titulo Adam, Gordon - Autor/a; Autor(es) Media and Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development En: Buenos Aires Lugar CLACSO, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales Editorial/Editor 2005 Fecha Colección Organizaciones de ayuda; Medios de comunicacion de masas; Cambio social; Temas Comunicacion; Conflictos armados; Radio; Paz; Afganistan; Capítulo de Libro Tipo de documento "http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/clacso/coediciones/20100824075603/29Chapter2 URL 2.pdf" Reconocimiento-No comercial-Sin obras derivadas 2.0 Genérica Licencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.es Segui buscando en la Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de CLACSO http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) Conselho Latino-americano de Ciências Sociais (CLACSO) Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) www.clacso.edu.ar Chapter 22 Radio in Afghanistan: socially useful communications in wartime Gordon Adam This case study examines the experience of radio broadcasting aimed at bring- | 349 ing about developmental change in Afghanistan over the past twenty-five years. One particular project is examined –the radio soap opera New Home New Life which has been broadcasting since 1994. Alongside other examples of radio, it is analysed in terms of methodology and the constraints involved in broadcasting to a conflict area. It examines New Home New Life’s impact and pulls together some lessons learned for future media interventions of this kind. Preamble: the social communication process In 1930, the German writer Bertolt Brecht suggested that: radio could be the most wonderful public communication system imagina- ble, a gigantic system of channels –could be, that is, if it were capable not only of transmitting but of receiving, of making listeners hear but also speak, not of isolating them but connecting them (Lewis and Booth, 1989). What Brecht did not understand –because radio at that time was a top-down medium– was how in later decades technological advances have worked with pro- gramme innovation to transform radio into an interactive medium which can con- nect people and enable communication between governments and populations and vice versa. The phone-in programme, for example, and the increasing use of text messaging, have both allowed listeners to have their say. This inclusiveness has created a degree of “ownership” by listeners over programmes. In many countries, Media and Glocal Change 350 | this helps programme producers broadcast on issues relevant to the audience, who then listen with greater interest and loyalty. Developing countries are catching up, as mobile telephony and deregulation of the media lead to new programming ini- tiatives. Where there is no easy access to phones, this “feedback loop” requires more pro-active work by the broadcasters –going to villages, consulting listeners on priority issues, recording their reactions to programmes etc. In conflict areas this process of “socially useful” programming is often driven by broadcasters, as the government either does not exist, is very weak, or preoccupied with pressing mili- tary issues. Afghanistan is a particularly interesting example because of the size and loyalty of its radio audience, which gave credible broadcasters a remarkable opportunity to influence social and behaviour change over the past twenty-five years. In this case study, I am avoiding the academic debate over “social” or “behaviour” change by taking the view that one cannot happen without the other. Thus, when an Afghan decides to allow his wife to be vaccinated because of hearing a radio programme, he does so after consulting his peers and after social norms have adjusted, making this an acceptable action. His behaviour change is an integral part of a wider social change. From news to “intended outcomes” programmes In the mid 1980s, BBC broadcasters were faced with a set of opportunities, as well as a number of difficulties, in developing “socially useful” radio programs in Afghanistan –in other words, programs that are designed to have an “intended outcome”. It should be stressed that in wartime, impartial radio news pro- grammes from respected broadcasters are “socially useful” in that they are often the only reliable means for people to learn about security and political issues on which their lives may depend. The respected American broadcaster and corre- spondent during the Second World War, Ed Murrow, explained this succinctly: “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful”. In the context of this case study, “socially useful” is interpreted to cover programmes aimed at some kind of social or behaviour change in the fields of health, awareness of landmines, social issues relating to the family and gender relationships, drug addiction and a host of other topics. On the positive side, the BBC had an unrivalled reputation for fair reporting and analysis of a vicious and largely secret war between the Soviet occupiers with their Afghan government allies against the various bands of mujahedin (holy warriors) and their supporters during the 1980s. In wartime, travel is difficult and dangerous, people are isolat- ed and often afraid, and the radio is all-important as a source of reliable news and comment1. Evidence from the time indicates that Afghans were voracious radio listeners to every station broadcasting in Pashto and Persian, particularly the BBC, VOA (Voice of America), Deutschewelle, Radio Iran, Radio Pakistan and All India 1 For more discussion see Skuse (2002). Gordon Adam Radio. They listened to Radio Afghanistan as well, most of them with deep scep- | 351 ticism, though there were some socially useful programmes, particularly a daily one on family life. In Pakistan, 82% of male Afghan Pashto speakers and 42% of women listened to the BBC Pashto Service in 19882. Many made real sacrifices to buy batteries, and those without radios often listened with their neighbours. In the 1980s, the BBC had a large, loyal audience both inside Afghanistan and amongst the five to six million Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Iran, the Gulf States and further a field. This was fertile ground for extending pro- grammes to socially useful issues, and for providing advice on everyday survival from health to mines-awareness. The rationale was compelling: in rural areas of Afghanistan people’s lives had been turned upside down; most schools and health centres had been destroyed and they had to face the hazards from millions of anti-personnel mines sprayed from aircraft. Farmers faced new challenges in cultivating crops and keeping their animals alive. There was a need for basic serv- ices supplied by NGOs to be supported by information about coping with the burning issues of everyday life. Radio Afghanistan was not fulfilling these infor- mation needs, particularly those related to rural areas and the refugee camps where most people lived. The biggest problem for the BBC Pashto and Persian services was that they broadcast from London, some 5,000 kms away. Programmes which set out to provide useful advice on health, farming and social issues had to research the specific issues with great care –difficult at such a distance. The BBC’s Audience Research department was geared almost exclusively to finding out how many people were listening, not what their broadcasting needs were. Another problem was that effective social communication is participatory and interactive, again made very difficult by distances and dangers of travel inside the country. There were hardly any phones available to listeners, and cell and satellite phones had yet to be invented. Also, programmes aimed at social change were very new to the BBC, and many people within the corporation were hostile to the concept. It was, they believed, akin to propaganda. Then there was cost: programmes aimed at social or behaviour change are comparatively expensive to research and produce. Even BBC foreign news was poorly resourced twenty years ago: there was a single international news reporter in Pakistan tasked with covering the Afghan war as well as Pakistan, and a couple of London based analysts who wrote on political and mili- tary developments. Donors were slow to understand the potential impact of broadcasting socially useful programmes despite the well-known popularity of the BBC amongst Afghans. The British Overseas Development Administration (now Department for International Development, DFID), quickly rejected a fund- ing query on the grounds that this would be “double funding” the BBC World Service (which is funded by a government grant-in-aid). Despite increased suffer- 2 International Broadcasting and Audience Research Report, Pashto Service listening, BBC, 1988. Media and Glocal Change 352 | ing by the population in the face of an increasingly destructive civil war, it took eighteen months to find funds from United Nations agencies (UNDP and UNICEF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross to launch New Home New Life, the BBC radio soap opera which went on the air in April 1994 and has been broadcast three times weekly in Pashto and Dari (Persian) ever since. New Home New Life Although there had been several educational series beforehand, including a drama called Good Health, New Home New Life was the most significant BBC radio pro- gramme aimed at bringing about social change in Afghanistan. It was produced in the region –Peshawar
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