NEW ARTICLES
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2014.01.07
Akihisa Matsuno ISSUES IN PEACEBUILDINGEthnic Groups’ Right to Independence: Self-determination, Secession and the Post-Cold War International Relations
Many conflicts around the world today are between the central government of a given state and ethnic groups within that state.
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2013.11.14
John Bray ISSUES IN PEACEBUILDING MYANMARThe private sector, peace-building and the international anti-corruption agenda
Three years ago a leading international company approached Control Risks to seek advice on a proposed investme
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2013.11.06
Thanet Aphornsuvan THAILAND'S DEEP SOUTHReflections on the Peace Dialogue in Southern Thailand Between the NSC and BRN
Unhappiness and frustration might best sum up the working relations between past Thai governments and their Ma
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2013.06.27
Duncan McCargo THAILAND'S DEEP SOUTHUnderstanding the Southern Thai Peace Talks
The announcement in February this year that the Thai government was engaging in negotiations with militants to try to broker an end to violence in the southern border provinces was widely hailed as an historic breakthrough. The reality is likely to prove a little more complicated. More than 5,300 people have been killed in an ongoing insurgency in Thailand’s Muslim-majority southern border provinces since 2004; from 2004 to 2007, this was the world’s most intensive insurgency after Iraq and Afghanistan.
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2013.05.01
SOUTHERN PHILIPPINESP’s POD, Southern Philippines, March 2013
The full March 2013 edition of P’s Pod is now available for download. It is titled, “The Situation in the So
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2013.04.23
Masako Ishii SOUTHERN PHILIPPINESBrief chronology of the conflict in the Southern Philippines
Updated by Masako Ishii, as of Nov., 2015 1968, Mar.: Jabidah incident. Muslim youth who had undergone militar
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2013.04.23
Kei Fukunaga SOUTHERN PHILIPPINESJapan’s Contribution to the Mindanao Peace and Development: Views from the Ground
At the Malacañang Palace in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on the afternoon of October 15, 2012, the
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2013.04.16
SOUTHERN PHILIPPINESProspects and Obstacles of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro
The peace negotiation between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has been going on for the last 16 years since January 1997. When will it conclude successfully is beyond the competence of this writer. It is very much dependent on many varying factors, some of which are beyond the control of the parties.
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2013.04.15
Meg Kagawa SOUTHERN PHILIPPINESThe Sabah Situation
(The information in this article is based primarily on Philippine media reporting.) On February 9, 2013, Raja Mudah Agbimuddin Kiram, a brother of the self-claimed Sultan of Sulu, Jamalul Kiram III, with about 1000 of his followers, including 300 armed men of the Royal Security Forces of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo (or Royal Army of Sulu; RAS), took ‘a journey back home’ to Sabah on small boats. The ocean borders between Sabah and the Philippines are quite porous, and in Sabah, the Government of the Philippines (GPH) estimates 600,000 Filipino are quietly living and working by crossing the Sulu Sea.
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2013.04.15
Soliman M. Santos, Jr SOUTHERN PHILIPPINESThe Role of Islamic Diplomacy in the Mindanao Peace Process
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2013.04.14
Masako Ishii SOUTHERN PHILIPPINESThe Southern Philippines: Exit from 40 Years of Armed Conflict