Posts tagged Muslims
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s quest to bring ‘stability’ to Sri Lanka
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s quest to bring ‘stability’ to Sri Lanka

Written by Isha Gupta

Sri Lanka’s new government should focus less on restoring its previous ‘stability’ and do everything in its power to build a new governance system to prevent future policy failures and reflect the protestors’ demands.

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Sri Lanka in crisis: Why the past lives on in its collective future
Sri Lanka in crisis: Why the past lives on in its collective future

Written by Ambika Satkunanathan

The determination of the Rajapaksas to stay in power seems partly due to their inability to comprehend protestors’ demands for accountability or to internalise their descent from god-like status to memes and jokes.

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Red-tagging as a human rights violation in the Philippines
Red-tagging as a human rights violation in the Philippines

Written by Teo S. Marasigan

Attempts to criminalise red-tagging and declare it a human rights violation show how citizens and civil society in the Philippines are fighting back in the legal sphere against an instrument of repression used by a government that has become an avatar of democratic decline in the world.

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Disinformation and democratic backsliding: India’s Facebook problem
Disinformation and democratic backsliding: India’s Facebook problem

Written by Raju Rajagopal, Nikhil Mandalaparthy

Despite a handful of statements from Facebook and its much publicised Oversight Board, it seems unlikely that Facebook will make any significant changes with regard to India, out of fear of upsetting the Modi government.

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Indonesia: The cost of repressing Islamists
Indonesia: The cost of repressing Islamists

Written by Nava Nuraniyah

The attack on an Ahmadiyah mosque in Sintang, West Kalimantan on 3 September is but one indication that the existing anti-radicalism campaign has merely served as a political weapon to target government enemies, rather than defending minorities.


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Challenges to subnational diplomacy: The tangled roots of Punjab
Challenges to subnational diplomacy: The tangled roots of Punjab

Written by Hamna Tariq

A peaceful Punjab region could prevent bi-national conflicts from spilling over into the region and, as both Punjabs border the seat of governments in Delhi and Islamabad respectively, regional bonhomie is likely to influence central government attitudes.

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Parallel Universes — Why Beijing’s celebrations didn’t leave the rest of the world in party mood
Parallel Universes — Why Beijing’s celebrations didn’t leave the rest of the world in party mood

Written by Kerry Brown and Astrid Nordin

Exposed to scrutiny as never before, it will have to do better at speaking to the world than the bullying diplomacy of the ‘Wolf Warrior’ phenomenon witnessed over late 2020 and into 2021.

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Cooperation against ISIS is low-hanging fruit for a stronger Indo-Pacific
Cooperation against ISIS is low-hanging fruit for a stronger Indo-Pacific

Written by Kabir Taneja

A common target — such as ISIS — will only strengthen and build security cooperation and a common strategic agora in the Indo-Pacific and aid the development of a future geopolitical architecture which can be mutually beneficial for all like-minded participating nations.

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