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…
Hindu Nationalism Anti-Muslim Extremism and Violence in Sri Lanka April 24, 2017 2 Written by Neil DeVotta. Sri Lanka’s vicious civil war ended in May 2009, amidst war crimes allegations, when government forces routed the separatist Liberation Tigers…
Burma/Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi has no excuse for staying silent on the Rohingya crisis March 31, 2017 0 Written by Tom Smith. Aung San Suu Kyi, the famed and much fawned-over former opposition leader of Myanmar, cannot be immune to criticism. Undoubtedly a force…
Burma/Myanmar Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya issue’ is a regional refugee crisis – ASEAN must intervene March 22, 2017 0 Written by DB Subedi. In June 2012, communal riots between Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and Rakhine Buddhists first erupted in the state of Rakhine. After the…
Indonesia How Jakarta’s first Chinese Indonesian governor became an easy target for radical Islamic groups March 21, 2017 0 Written by Noor Huda Ismail. Jakarta saw its biggest protest in years on Friday, prompting president Joko Widodo to cancel his planned visit to Australia. Some…
Elections Interpreting the Uttar Pradesh results March 20, 2017 6 Written by Gilles Verniers. Interpreting massive verdicts such as the recent Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections pose a number of challenges to social scientists. The…
Islamophobia Nuclear Orientalism?: America, Pakistan, and the ‘Islamic Bomb’, 1979-2016 March 13, 2017 0 Written by Malcolm Craig. The heavily freighted idea of an “Islamic bomb” has been around for some decades now. The notion behind it is that…
Asia Where is Ethnicity? Intersectionality in the Chinese Feminist Movement March 6, 2017 1 Written by Séagh Kehoe. The Chinese feminist movement has been making impressive waves over the past few years. Largely made up of young women, Chinese…
Bangladesh Life in limbo: the Rohingya refugees trapped between Myanmar and Bangladesh February 22, 2017 0 Written by Ashraful Azad. Violence against the Rohingyas, an ethnic Muslim minority in Myanmar, has reached a new high according to a report published by the United…
China China’s Self-Defeating Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Xinjiang February 16, 2017 5 Written by Michael Clarke. The correlation between regime type and the likelihood of terrorism has been a subject of scholarly attention for decades. One major…
