conflict Is Kashmir facing a new crisis? July 2, 2018 1 Written by Andrew Whitehead. June has been a cruel month in Kashmir. As it opened, there appeared to be a glimmer of hope in one of…
conflict The ‘I’ and ‘Other’ in Independent Sri Lanka January 22, 2018 1 Written by Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra. February 4th, 2018 is a significant landmark in Sri Lankan post-colonial history. It is the 70th anniversary Sri Lanka’s independence…
ASEAN ASEAN’s Role in Conflict Management: Active and Effective? November 14, 2017 0 Written by Naureen Nazar Soomro. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), regarded as a successful regional organisation in managing regional peace and stability, has been…
Burma/Myanmar Ending Myanmar’s Vicious Cycle of Sexual Violence October 5, 2017 0 Written by Jenny Hedström. Reports continue to emerge from the crisis unfolding in Rakhine State. There, hundreds of thousands of women, children and men have…
Burma/Myanmar Myanmar: Understanding the Rohingya Insurgency October 4, 2017 4 Written by Paul Staniland. A massive refugee crisis has emerged along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, with hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fleeing violence in northern Rakhine…
Burma/Myanmar The Forgotten People: Refugees and Myanmar’s peace process October 2, 2017 0 Written by Kirsten McConnachie. The actions of the Myanmar army in Rakhine State over the past weeks have shocked the world and once again revealed…
conflict The Vulnerability of Christians in India Today April 28, 2017 1 Written by M. Sudhir Selvaraj The Social Hostility Index, which was released last week by the Pew Research Centre, ranked India fourth in terms of…
Asia Indian India Purged of Christians? April 28, 2017 0 Written by John Dayal Sometime in 1996, the redoubtable Swami Garran Kishore, a prominent leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and his colleagues in the…
conflict A Survey of Violence Against Religious Minorities in India April 25, 2017 1 Written by Ram Puniyani. For centuries, India has been a diverse, plural society inhabited by followers of many faiths and languages and a plethora of cultures. Its…