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Thailand

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Why Do Mass Protests Fail?

  • January 19, 2022
Guest post by Kana Inata In January 2006, when the scandals of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came…
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COVID-19 and Myanmar—A Looming Humanitarian Crisis

  • April 14, 2020
Guest post by Shelli Israelsen On March 31, 2020, Myanmar’s Ministry of Health and Sports confirmed its first…
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Thai military in Chiang Mai. Photo courtesy of Takeaway.
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A Closer Look: Corporal punishment of boys drives violent political activism in Thailand

  • December 19, 2019
Guest post by Elin Bjarnegård and Erik Melander, with Karen Brounéus. How is corporal punishment connected to political…
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What We Know – and Don’t Know – about Religious Civil Wars

  • May 23, 2018
Guest post by Desirée Nilsson and Isak Svensson. Ongoing civil wars in Syria, Mali, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Thailand,…
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Beliefs About Male Superiority Help Explain Why More Gender-equal Societies are More Peaceful

  • November 8, 2017
By Elin Bjarnegård, Karen Brounéus, and Erik Melander Male political activists in Thailand who subscribed to masculine honor ideology…
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The Political Motives Behind Bangladesh’s Abuse of Rohingya Refugees

  • June 30, 2017
Guest post by Sam Schiffer. Half a million ethnic Rohingya, a Muslim people, have fled their native Myanmar…
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It’s the Economy, Stupid (But Blame Minority Groups)

  • October 27, 2016
Guest post by Graig R. Klein, Carla Martinez Machain, and Efe Tokdemir. In an effort to rally political support during…
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WANTED: UN Peacekeepers for Mali

  • June 20, 2016
By Marina Henke.  In early June UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon made an urgent plea to increase the…
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Religious Peace Activism: How the Daily Work of Local Religious Institutions Can Help Prevent Violent Conflict

  • September 2, 2015
Guest post by Johannes Vüllers, Alexander De Juan and Jan H. Pierskalla Headlines associating religion and political violence grab…
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Nonviolent Conflicts in 2014 You May Have Missed Because They Were Not Violent

  • December 31, 2014
By Erica Chenoweth Last week, Steven Pinker and Andy Mack wrote an article reassuring Slate readers that the…
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Political Violence @ a Glance is an online magazine directed by Erica Chenoweth, Christian Davenport, Barbara Walter and Joe Young, that answers questions on the most pressing problems related to violence and protest in the world’s conflict zones. Political Violence @ A Glance is supported by the UC Institute of Global Conflict & Cooperation, a University of California think tank specializing in research, training, and policy engagement around issues related to international security, economic development, political violence and its antecedents, and peace building.