Southern Insurgency
| Item title | Author | Description | Language | Accession Number |
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| Violence Against Women in the Post Tsunami Context 2007 | Reflects the post-tsunami situation of 12 communities in the tsunami-affected provinces: Ranong, Phang-nga, Phuket, and Krabi. Covers women of 5 different groups i.e. Buddhist Thai, Muslim Thai, Thai Diaspora and Chao Lay (The Moken, Moklen, and Urak Lawoi), and foreign workers. Uses questionnaire, interview guideline, case studies, and focus group discussions. Presents the brief description of each group in the study, and the overview of viol ...Continue Reading | Multilanguage | 77710 | |
| The Tackle of Southern Problems from the Religious Officials Viewpoints | Imron Maluleem | Traces King Rama VI's policy on the southern border provinces, considering history of southern provinces in Rattanakosin Period. Analyzes the problems and causes of violence in three southern provinces: Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat. Looks at the military policy and the southern conflicts, mentioning the nation-building policy of Field Marshal P. Pibulsonggram and the policy of Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat. Considers southern problems in the a ...Continue Reading | Thai | 77701 |
| Peaceful Means and Solutions to the Unrest Problems in Southern Border Provinces: The Creation of Trustworthiness in the Relations Between the Minority and Majority Groups | Amara Pongsapich | Analyzes the causes of ethnic discrimination, focusing on the dualism of Thai-Muslims in Southern Thailand. Looks at the case of marginal people, regarding the trustworthiness between minority and majority groups. Mentions factors affecting the suspicion, proposing the rehabilitation of trustworthiness to change conflicts to peaceful means. | Thai | 77700 |
| 3 Southern Border Provinces: Questions That Need to Be Addressed | Banchong Nasae | Discusses violence and problems in the 3 Southern border provinces, namely Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat. Deals with the issues on economic problems, structure of Muslim communities, and spiritual problems. Mentions the original structure of Muslim communities related to religious belief and way of life, roles of Imam, Islamic leader of the communities, and the development of local government. | Thai | 77683 |
| Guidelines for Peace Building in 3 Southern Border Provinces from the Points of View of Those Who Have Been Affected from the Violence, Research Summary | Provides summary of research on guidelines for peace building in 3 southern border province from the points of view of people who have been affected from the violence. Reviews the scope of the research, focusing on the study of target group's behaviour and thought. Mentions the using of qualitative and quantitative analysis and the purposes of the research. Identifies the research's framework for resolving conflicts and building peace in 3 sou ...Continue Reading | Thai | 77651 | |
| Malay-Muslim Separatism in Thailand: Understanding the Nature of Conflict and the Search for Resolution | Bin Othman, Mohd Haniff | Emphasizes on the conflict between the Malay-Muslim in Southern Thailand and the Thai state which is no exception to this trend. Examines the history of Malay-Muslim relationship with the Thai state, the current demography of the Pattani region and the development of separatism in the area. Analyzes and determines the nature of violence and its root causes. Deals with the government responses to violence and attempts to formulate policies and ...Continue Reading | English | 77510 |
| Questions of 3 Southern Border Provinces: Incomprehensible Inaccessible, Unable to Evolve | Reports on opinions ofvarious parties such as Thai-Muslim leaders, scholars, and local people toward the South Fire conflict and the way Thaksin government deals with the situation. Criticizes that the government does not understand and cannot solve the problem, emphasizing the failure and further problems caused.Talks about the causes of the conflict and suggested solutions, identifying the major problems. Includes four strategies i.e. the roy ...Continue Reading | Thai | 77063 | |
| South Fire: Separatism? | Somdul Pholsaen | Analyzes the south Fire crisis in the national history of Thailand. Raises the article on Origins of Malay Muslim 'Separatism' in Southern Thailand by Thanet Aphornsuvan, focusing the conjuncture of the crucial historical and political events, Haji Sulong as the Leader of the Malay Muslim movement, and the Dusun Nyor rebellion. Traces the history of origins of separatism and insurgency in the deep south, and historical problems of the ancient ...Continue Reading | Thai | 77028 |
| Background of the Theory of Separatism in Southern Thailand | Thanet Arpornsuwan | Studies the violence in the three southernmost provinces in Thailand, focusing on political history of the conflicts between the Malay-Muslim and Thai state. Reviews political development regarding government reform, nation state, the Malay Muslims, the studies on separatism, the Hajji Sulong and Dusun Nyior movements, image change of Thai state and attitudes toward the Malay muslims during 1932-1948, nation building and acculturation policy dur ...Continue Reading | Thai | 76938 |
| A Ministry for the South: New Governance Proposals for Thailand's Southern Region | Srisompob Jitpiromrsi | Reviews the ongoing conflict in Thailand's Muslim-majority southern border provinces. Analyzes how the Thai state suffers from a legitimacy deficit in the region, and many Malay-Muslims would like greater control over their own affairs. Explores possible forms of decentralization in the border region, dealing with the survey on the opinions concerning reform of local government, views on decentralization by religion of respondents, views of sub ...Continue Reading | English | 76824 |
| The Life of This World: Negotiated Muslim Lives in Thai Society | Chaiwat Satha-Anand | Contains researches and papers on a range of critical issues that affected the Muslims in Thailand over a period of two decades. Characterizes Buddhist-Muslim relations in Thailand that has become very fragile, looking at the government which seems to be running out of options. Deals with the thematic connection between papers and the balanced blend between the empirical and conceptual framework. Provides insight into the mind of a Western-tra ...Continue Reading | English | 76813 |
| Southern Thailand - Bangkok: Heart to Heart | Contains articles on culture, ways of life, and terrorist violence in Southern Thailand. Reviews events happened from the 1st to the 3rd rounds of dissolving mobs in Takbai, Narathiwat as related to remembrance, forgiveness, and promise. Related remembrance of Takbai incidents to lessons learned from accepting the Draft of Internal Security Act. Notes the imbalance of human rights, participation of the people, and accountability. Contains cor ...Continue Reading | Thai | 76577 | |
| Political Science and Thai Democratization, Vol. 2 | Compiles research articles and abstracts of papers presented at the 9th National Conference on Political Science and Public Administration. Deals with the studies and issues on the European Union's politics and economy international relations major powers in Asia and global political economy and good governance in Thai bureaucracy populism in Asia Myanmar and demand for democracy people's politic dynamics of society, community, and border ...Continue Reading | Thai | 76551 | |
| Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence | Explores the intersections of religion and violence in South and Southeast Asia through a series of illustrative case studies. Draws together leading Asia specialists from the United States and Asia. Represents a variety of disciplinary orientations, including political science, religious studies, anthropology and security studies. Deals with the attacks on September 11, 2001 in United States which have done more to focus attention on the conj ...Continue Reading | English | 76433 | |
| Violence in the Mist: In the Name of Justice | Supara Janchitfah | Focuses on the stories told by people in the midst of violence. Reflects the effect of violence in southern Thailand by restoring justice including a proposal for police reform and a petition letter to be submitted to the United Nation (UN). Mentions the desperate voices of those profoundly affected by violence with no hope left for Thai justice system. Deals with a story of a town buried deep under the midst of fear, a judge who was surprised ...Continue Reading | English | 76214 |
| The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand: Understanding the Conflict's Evolving Dynamic | Chalk, Peter | Provides historical background of the root causes for Malay-Muslim discontent in Southern Thailand. Discusses the evolving nature of insurgency, dividing the struggle into three distinct stages: 1960-1998, 1998-2004, and 2004 to the present (2008). Describes a context for delineating the changing nature of rebel tactics and violence. Considers that the altered and more acute nature of post-2004 unrest can be attributed to a growing external ji ...Continue Reading | English | 76114 |
| Muslim World and Global Politics, Muslim Studies Conference 2008 at Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University | Muslim Studies Conference 2008 on Muslim World and Global Politics (2008 : Chulalongkorn University) | Compiles papers presented at the Muslim Studies Conference 2008, considering the role of US Presidents in Muslim World. Discusses the unrest problems in Southern border provinces from the reflections of neighbouring countries and the Organization of Islamic conference (OIC). Examines Southern Thailand conflict and Muslim World, citing a local conflict rooted in clashes between two ethno-religiosities, those of Thai Buddhists and Malay Muslims. ...Continue Reading | Thai | 75913 |
| The Muslim South in the Context of the Thai Nation | Indicates that any notion of Muslim insurgency in the southern region of Thailand requires a deeper understanding of differences between the Buddhist and Muslim Thais of the region. Utilizes data from a survey taken in 2006 of attitudes and political orientations of the region to compare the Muslim and Buddhist identities, as well as disparities in assimilation of Thai-speaking and Malay-speaking Muslims in Thailand. Conducts a survey of a sa ...Continue Reading | English | 74868 | |
| Framing the Violence in Southern Thailand: Three Waves of Malay-Muslim Separatism | Jones, Sara A | Examines how the Thai newspaper, The Nation (an English-language daily) portrays the violence in the Malay-Muslim South through the use of agenda-setting concepts and framing analyses in articles published about four events in 2004, noting two of the events as examples of state aggression against southern insurgents and the other two of southern insurgents as the primary aggressors against the state and/or citizens. Reviews history of the Malay- ...Continue Reading | English | 74441 |
| The Disclosure of the National Reconciliation Commission's Draft Report | Presents the draft report of the National Reconciliation Commission on the Overcoming of the Violence Through the Power of Reconciliation as a guideline for tackling the unrest problems in South Thailand to be submitted to the government. Cites the stories of Yotsaphorn and Ammana who were orphaned by fathers killed from the daily violence. Analyzes the root cause of the violence and problems in southern border provinces which are intertwined ...Continue Reading | Thai | 74328 |
