The policy of maintaining peace as a legitimate order in modern Tajikistan: ideas, mechanisms and institutions for implementation

The article analyzes the policy of maintaining peace as a legitimate order and the role of the media in its implementation in post-conflict Tajikistan. The author offers an analysis of the communication factors of the stability of the peacekeeping policy as a legitimate order, which simultaneously acts as a factor in the stability of the current political regime in the conditions of political and ideological confrontation in the country. The institutions and mechanisms for the implementation of the peacekeeping policy as a legitimate order are determined, against this background, the participation of the media in maintaining this policy is analyzed, and opposite interpretations of the concept of peace in the media space of the country are identified. It is noted that the positioning of the Tajik media in the context of maintaining peace as a legitimate order is subject to reflection as the political situation changes, which can be considered a problem of the functioning of the public mind and following a certain trend of discursiveness of the communication space. The ways to change the situation proposed by the Tajik media are based on the ideology according to which the stability of the policy of peace as a legitimate order is possible only if pluralism and discursive order are ensured, as well as their discussion from the point of view of organizing this space. The author comes to the conclusion that in the context of the civil war, peace turned out to be an important factor in the legitimate social order in the country. This also takes into account the fact that peace as a legitimate order in the post-conflict period turned out to be unstable, which to a certain extent contributed to the formation of a personalist political regime in the country, including taking into account the inclusion of media resources in this process. On this basis, a hypothesis is put forward that the formed personalistic political regime in the country is a transformed and imposed form of the institutionalization of the world as a legitimate order, which seeks to be supported, including through the developed media strategy that ensures its information security.

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