Tag: Minority Groups
38 Articles
- Conflict & Security
India, Israel, and Geopolitical Imaginaries of Cooperation and Oppression
The contemporary global moment requires us to be alert to the multiple trajectories of repression. Tactics and technologies circulate amongst and between democracies and…
June 17, 2022
- Society & Culture
The Perpetual Foreigner: Statelessness among the Vietnamese Minority in Cambodia
We live in a world of states. The legal bond that people have with states is called nationality or citizenship. Most of us get it by birth, either transmitted from our parents or…
June 14, 2022
- Society & Culture
Questioning Intent: The Indonesian Government Is Not Committed to Eliminating Sexual Violence
Indonesia’s bill to eliminate sexual violence continues to languish. The Elimination of Sexual Violence bill (RUU PKS) was first proposed in 2016, and while numerous revisions…
November 11, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
The Uyghur Genocide through the Lens of the Child
Some members of the international community are growing increasingly aware of the human rights crisis in the homeland of the Uyghurs, a group of Turkic people indigenous to East…
August 17, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
Making Anti-Racism the Core of the Humanitarian System: A Review of Literature on Race and Humanitarian Aid
In a July 2020 internal statement signed by 1,000 staff members of Médecins Sans Frontéres (MSF), workers criticized the NGO’s “dehumanizing” programs, run by a …
May 21, 2021
- Conflict & Security
The Digitalization of Hate Speech in South and Southeast Asia: Conflict-Mitigation Approaches
Last fall, French President Emmanuel Macron publicly criticized Muslim extremism and defended French citizens’ right to caricature the Islamic Prophet Mohammad on the grounds…
May 5, 2021
- Dialogues
Professor Bruce Hoffman on Domestic Terrorism
GJIA: How would you define terrorism, and what exactly falls under it? BH: My definition of terrorism is slightly different from the US government’s. Their definition is that…
April 21, 2021
- Society & Culture
Rohingya Refugees and the Urgency of Solutions
The Rohingya refugee situation goes back decades. While the mass influx of some 866,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh which began in August 2017 was shocking, it…
April 20, 2021
- Conflict & Security
Bridging the Gender Divide is Key to US Global Fragility Strategy Implementation
As the Biden-Harris administration takes office, it will be tasked with the full implementation of the Global Fragility Act (GFA), which aims to tackle the root causes of…
April 6, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
Race: A Never-Ending Taboo in France
Events in recent months have once again made race and racism part of public debate in France. There was the beheading of school teacher Samuel Paty in a banlieue, or suburban…
April 1, 2021