Tag: Minority Groups
38 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Myanmar’s Rakhine State at a Crossroads: Regional Power Struggles and Bangladesh’s Rohingya Dilemma
Bangladesh-Myanmar Border in Flux The February 2021 military coup in Myanmar and the subsequent full-scale civil war between the military junta and various ethnic armed groups…
May 20, 2025
- Conflict & Security
The Druze Community in Israel: A Model of Minority Integration
Introduction The Druze community, an ethnoreligious minority, holds a unique position in Israel and the broader Middle East. Despite numbering only around one million people…
April 21, 2025
- Society & Culture
The Persistent Problems of the Olympic Games: A Focus on Paris 2024
Reforming the Problematic Games The Olympic Games are a mega-event: a global, mobile celebration of sport and culture that attracts worldwide attention, costs and generates…
August 25, 2024
- Human Rights & Development
Early Marriage in Romani Communities: Looking Beyond Tradition
The Romani “tradition” of early marriage is not just a quaint custom. Human rights activists emphasize that it is a cover for a profound issue of segregation and…
July 15, 2024
- Human Rights & Development
From Satanism to Genocide: Moral Panic and White Supremacy in South Africa
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, as it became increasingly clear that South Africa’s apartheid system of minority rule was neither functional nor tenable, White society…
May 12, 2023
- Global Governance
- Society & Culture
Political Protests in Peru: Causes, Complications, and Remedies
The Nature and Causes of Peru’s Recent Protests On December 7, 2022, severe confrontations began between protesters and security forces; although the confrontations abated…
April 26, 2023
- Society & Culture
Joseonjok and Goryeo Saram Ethnic Return Migrants in South Korea: Challenges of Co-Ethnic Hierarchization and Ethnonationalism
Ethnonationalism is a strong force in Korean society, and the South Korean state has pursued an active diasporic engagement policy based on this principle. Nevertheless, co…
April 14, 2023
- Human Rights & Development
Routine Observance of Human Rights in Shadow of an Unresolved Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh: External vs. Internal Locus of Responsibility
Human Rights in a De Facto State: The Locus of Responsibility The Second Karabakh War of 2020 not only shifted the geopolitical balance in the South Caucasus but also created a…
April 6, 2023
- Dialogues
The Proposed Judicial Overhaul from an Israeli-Palestinian Perspective, with Josh Ruebner
GJIA: Can you give us a brief overview of the relevant parts of Israel’s judiciary, and how the proposed amendments—this so-called “judicial overhaul”—aim to reshape…
April 3, 2023
- Dialogues
Adom Getachew on Anticolonial Worldmaking of the Past and Present
GJIA: Plenty of historical literature and political theory already exists on the decolonization period, but the reorientations to the Black Atlantic and global transformative…
February 13, 2023