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Subnational Conflict

Is It Time for a Peacekeeping Force for ASEAN?

This decade marks a radical shift in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states' attitudes toward its role in the region. The idea of an ASEAN regional peacekeeping cooperation was first raised in 1994, but never gained traction among member states.

Perilous Progress in Nepal

Following seven years of fitful birthing Nepal's new constitution was promulgated in September 2015, and instantly became the epicentre of ongoing political turmoil that threatens to undermine progress on many fronts in the country. The culmination of a protracted political transition since the comprehensive peace accord of 2006, the new constitution attempts...

Report from Sri Lanka: Parliamentary Elections

After a hotly contested campaign, Parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka concluded peacefully last week in a vote hailed by local and international observers as one of the most free, fair, and peaceful in Sri Lanka's recent history. The 70 percent turnout fell short of last January's 82 percent, possibly due to the monsoon rain that arrived two hours before polls closed on Monday, August 17.

Infographics Aside, Are Fragility Indices Useful?

Devising quantitative measures of state weakness is big business in the development industry. As awareness of the importance of institutions to growth and peace has spread, development practitioners and policymakers have been served an ever-expanding smorgasbord of state fragility indices (see here, here, and here). Countries receive a numerical score based on a range of indicators deemed to capture the ability of states to serve their people.

Since the Bombs… My Life Has Changed

For the last 11 years, Thailand's southern border provinces of Yala, Narathiwat, and Pattani and neighboring districts of Songkhla – the Deep South – have been torn by a subnational conflict in which bomb attacks, assassinations, and other acts of violence have claimed over 6,400 lives and injured more than 11,500 people.
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