Asia The socio-psychological impact of terrorism on Pakistani society January 30, 2020 0 Image Credit: Pakistani forces captured Baine Baba Ziarat, the highest point in Swat valley by Al Jazeera English/Flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Muhammad Nawaz Khan. The goal…
conflict Sri Lanka’s Leviathan May 1, 2019 0 Written by Viruben Nandakumar On 21 April 2019 three Christian churches and three luxury hotels were attacked by suicide bombers, leading to the deaths of…
CPEC Karachi Attack Demands a Review of Pakistan’s Security Measures November 26, 2018 0 Zoha Waseem On 23rd November three armed militants walked into Karachi’s affluent neighbourhood, Clifton. Their target was the Chinese consulate that is protected by barricades,…
Bangladesh How Islamists are trying to exploit the 2018 Bangladesh protests August 23, 2018 0 Written by Asheque Haque Bangladesh just observed a large, multiple-day student protest, mainly in its capital city of Dhaka. The protests began after two school…
Philippines After Surabaya: Regional challenges for terrorism in Southeast Asia June 6, 2018 0 Written by Zachary Abuza Between 13 and 14 May 2018, three families of suicide bombers - all members of the Islamic State-linked Jamaah Ansharut Daulah…
Burma/Myanmar Preaching hate and violence: The (militant) Buddhist perspective June 5, 2018 0 Written by Peter Lehr. When discussing religion and violence in Southeast Asia, the first concept that usually comes to mind is that of jihad or…
Bangladesh Bangladesh: Islamists resume their attack on secularism March 20, 2018 0 Written by Ikhtisad Ahmed. The knife attack on Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, the popular Bangladeshi writer and science professor, in Sylhet on March 3, is a…
China China’s Securitization Drive in Tibet and Xinjiang February 14, 2018 5 Written by Adrian Zenz. In 2000, Borge Bakken argued that China has "never been a 'police state' if we define that term as the number…
Belt and Road Initiative How China and Pakistan are Combating Terrorism November 15, 2017 0 Written by Saadat Hassan Bilal. China is financing over $62 billion of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which has been deemed the "flagship" initiative of…
Singapore Singapore and the Terror Threat Landscape September 25, 2017 0 Written by Shashi Jayakumar. Emergent threats enveloping Southeast Asia endanger not just regional stability, but may be a harbinger of the so-called Islamic State’s afterlives. …