Past events
The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism in Indonesia
Over the past decade, Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) has become central to Western counter-terrorism efforts in Muslim-majority nations such as Indonesia. P/CVE emerged as a...
Dialogue without negotiation: Illiberal peacebuilding in Southern Thailand
This talk examines the peace process in violence-ravaged southern Thailand. Initiated under the civilian government of Yingluck Shinawatra in 2013, the peace process has largely been dominated by...
Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand
At the height of the 2020 protests, the Thai government implemented vigorous online censorship to curb public criticism of the monarchy. In doing so the government cited its obligation to...
Genocidal Divisions of Labor: Grey Zones and Anti-Rohingya Violence in Western Myanmar, 2012-2017
Organizing mass violence requires significant logistical capacity. This implies an organized division of labor. Usually, it requires state involvement. It does not, however, require that everyone...
How Thai and Burmese torturers talk
In 2021, a group of anti-narcotics cops in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand suffocated a man to death with plastic bags. The torture and killing would have gone unreported but it was captured on a video,...
DORO Behind the Byline
DORO Behind the Byline comes as a sequel to Afro-Asia in Upheaval: A Memoir of Front-line Reporting. It shifts the focus back to the examination of domestic events that determined profoundly the...
Double agents and the making of globalisation: How boardrooms shape the world polity
Globalisation is underpinned by international organisations that develop policy scripts to diffuse around the world, and we present an integrative model for understanding how boardroom dynamics...
Governing garbage: the interplay between formality and informality in solid waste management in the Indonesian urban context
This research focuses on the interplay between formality and informality in waste management and its impact on urban governance. It investigate how formal and informal waste systems interact in...
Clientelism and Public Health: Explaining Variation in Healthcare Services in Three Indonesian Cities
What explains the disparity of healthcare services in Indonesia, with inadequate and uneven distribution of healthcare resources and technical capacities across regions?
Many studies have...
Protests in the city of fear: Hong Kong’s anti-government movement under the Covid-19 pandemic and the National Security Law
Hong Kong’s large-scale pro-democratic and anti-government street protests made media headlines around the world in 2019. The Beijing-Hong Kong authority bypassed Hong Kong’s legislature to impose...
