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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…

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…

India

How the Virgin Mary brings together different faiths in Pakistan and India

February 6, 2017 0

Written by Donna Fernandes. Karachi is the most violent city in Pakistan. A total of 1,046 deaths related to terror and militancy were reported there…

Bangladesh

Faith, dissent and extremism: how Bangladesh is struggling to stay secular

January 1, 2017 0

Written by Samia Huq. The recent violent attacks on a Hindu temple in Bangladesh’s Netrokona district, and previous assaults on temples and homes in October…

Minorities

What we’ve found by mapping incidents of intolerance across South Asia

December 28, 2016 0

Written by Siddharth Peter de Souza, Nida Rehman and Saba Sharma. Intolerance is a rising global concern and South Asia is no exception. In Uttar Pradesh,…

Diaspora

Successful blog series on Hindu Nationalism

November 18, 2015 0

By Professor Katharine Adeney IAPS was proud to organise a series of Blog posts on Hindu Nationalism. Contributors from comparative politics, history, journalism, law and…

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