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Activism

New India, new era: Gunpoint democracy

December 18, 2019 0

Image Credit: DSC_0920 by Suhas Das/Flickr; Licence : CC BY NC 2.0  Written by Nayan Jyoti. Assam has borne the brunt of a massive influx…

Activism

Raging resistance against India’s anti-Muslim citizenship law

December 16, 2019 2

Image Credit: Refugees, Climatalk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Ashok Swain. India is currently witnessing large-scale protests all over the country. While these protests are…

Activism

The party-list system in the Philippines: Is it better or worse for democracy?

July 4, 2019 0

Written by Jorge Villamor Tigno. Image Credit: Satur Ocampo & Liza Maza file candidacy for Senate by Victor Villanueva/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The party-list system in the…

Asia-Pacific

Chinese overseas students then and now: Lei Haizong and the myth of a Chinese liberal martyr

July 2, 2019 0

Written by Xin Fan. Image Credit: Sun Comes Up Over the Bay Bridge by Thomas Hawk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. In 1926, 24-year-old Lei Haizong was studying at…

Civil society

Reforming an ‘evil’ party-list system

July 1, 2019 0

Written by Julio C. Teehankee. Image Credit: Election Posters by David Stanley/CC; Licence: CC BY 2.0. At the end of the hotly contested 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines,…

Civil society

Indonesian society and Islam: Identity politics and the making of a majority

May 6, 2019 1

Written by Kikue Hamayotsu. Muslim demands and movements calling for the elevation of sharia within the state legal structure, along with numerous mass mobilisations targeting…

Burma/Myanmar

Facebook, hate speech and civil society in Myanmar

March 18, 2019 0

Written by Lisa Brooten. Social media have clearly provided outlets for the voices of those in many countries around the world who are frustrated by…

Civil society

Indonesia’s quest for tolerance: Everyday social media talk and spreading the ‘virus of peace’

March 14, 2019 0

Written by Dayana Lengauer. Tolerance in majority Muslim Indonesia is associated, among other things, with the national motto ‘unity in diversity’, state-recognised religious pluralism, and…

China-EU

Video Policy Brief No 9: Including civil society in EU-China relations

July 5, 2018 0

Dr Andreas Fulda Our research project not only monitors and evaluates the state of implementation of China's Overseas NGO Law but also aims to identify new…

China

Ai Weiwei: Entrepreneurship, ethics and art

July 2, 2018 0

Written by Robin Holt and Daniel Hjorth. Schooled in the artistic use of readymade objects, Ai Weiwei’s brief sojourn in New York seems to have…

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