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Southeast Asia Section

Alternative Sources for the Study and Teaching of Regional Conflict

A web page created in connection with the Presentation: "Searching for an Alternative View of the World: Formal and Informal Sources for the Study and Teaching of Regional Conflict" for the JSIS Summer Seminar:
Conflicts and Challenges of the 21st Century, June 23-25, 2003

Examples of Regional Conflicts in Southeast Asia

Myanmar Democracy Movement
Independence in East Timor
Secessionist Movements in Indonesia
Islamic Movements in the Philippines
The Aftermath of Genocide in Cambodia

Types of Resources

Web Gateway Resources
Newspaper reports
Other Reports and Statistics
Official Government Sources
Published scholarly articles and books
Film and Media Representation

Gateway Web Resources

News Resources

Area Specific Information most easily available now from local newspapers online.

New Magazines

Non-Governmental Organizations and International Agencies

Regional Newsletters and Electronic Journals

Official Government Sources and Reference Sources

Including links to Statistical Officed resources, some agency documenation.

Electronic Journals and Newsletter Representing the Scholarly Field of Asian Studies

Think Tank Reports

Film

Examples:

Resource at risk [videorecording] : Philippine marshlands / Bookmark Video presents a Moving Images production ; director, Nonoy Regalado
Pub info [Makati City] : Bookmark Video : Moving Images Creative Team, 2000

Mindanao [videorecording] : healing the past, building the future / produced by Stella Chiu ; written by Raul Rodrigo
Pub info [Manila?] : Bookmark Video, [1999?]

Sisters and daughters betrayed [videorecording] : the trafficking of women and girls and the fight to end it / created by Chela Blitt on behalf of the Circle against trafficking and forced prostitution, a project of the Global Fund for Women ; produced and directed by Chela Blitt
Pub info Berkeley, CA : University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, c1995

 

Themes to Consider

Globalization

How to document the local and not privilege the "global information market."

Local resources are often in vernacular languages, or in the nature of reports that do not get synthesized or integrated into the corpus of academic discouse.

Critical Development Studies

An attempt to challenge the presumed paradigms of progress and look from a regional perspective.


Environment and Ecology
Urban and Rural Social Issues
Women's rights
Demography

Human Rights

Many NGO and IGO's are working in these areas. Some countries even have national human rights commissions.

Freedom of the Press
Legal Reform


Global Security

Human security
Food security
Sustainability.

Many NGOs are working with these issues in the SEA region, a region which has seen drastic environmental degradation, from logging of forest areas, destruction of coral reefs, depletion of fish stocks, unregulated pesticide use and air pollution.

 

Public Health


AIDs Prevention
Family Planning
Traffic Safety


Last modified: Monday July 28, 2008