Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, PhD, is an assistant professor in International Relations at Thailand's Thammasat University and co-Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA). Her most recent publications are; Humor and Nonviolent Struggle in Serbia (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2015); “Securitisation of civil resistance: the Thai junta and beyond,” Journal of Resistance Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (2015): 85-126; and “Nonviolent action as the interplay between political contexts and ‘insider’s knowledge’: exploring Otpor’s preference for humorous protest across Serbian towns,” in Civil Resistance: Process and Practice, ed. Kurt Schock (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2015), 59-92. While still working on the topic of nonviolent activism, she has undertaken a new research project examining police responses to street protest in Thailand, the Philippines and India.
Duterte’s war on drugs: bitter lessons from Thailand’s failed campaign
Sep 29, 2016 14:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
The body count from Philippine President Rodrigo Dutertes war on drugs is growing by the day. While hes not the first national leader to condone violence and extrajudicial killings in the name of controlling illicit drug...