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In a worrying indication of the severity of the conflict in South Thailand, Maplecroft have just released their latest Terrorism Risk Index, and Thailand has entered the category of countries with an ‘extreme risk of terrorism’. Maplecroft have included 9 countries in this category, the others being: Iraq (1), Afghanistan (2), Pakistan (3), Somalia (4), [...]
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‘Extreme Risk of Terrorism’ in Thailand
Creating Sustainable Peace in South Thailand
Faith Community Network The Faith Community Network helps communities in South Thailand to resolve conflicts, working with local religious leaders. Many of the problems that have contributed to the violence in South Thailand have in fact existed for a long time. Differences in religion and culture have been cited as causing violence. In fact, it [...]
Social Agenda Working Group – South Watch
The Social Agenda Working Group is based within the Social Research Institute of Chulalongkorn University. The Working Group was founded in 2004 with the goal of working with academics, government and civil society to build knowledge for peacebuilding. The Working Group creates space for policy dialogue and also to analysis grass-roots perspectives on social issues, [...]
Thailand Research Fund – Alternative Activity Research (AAR)
The Thailand Research Fund (TRF) is a national body that provides budgetary support to young researchers, aiming to build research capacity in Thailand. In the Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala, Songkhla provinces of South Thailand, the TRF runs a programme called ‘Alternative Activity Research’ (AAR). This programme aims to support women and children who have been affected [...]
Life in the ‘Red Zone’ of South Thailand
Since 2007 the provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat in south Thailand have been known as the “Red Zone” – the area which has been most affected by armed violence and in which the government feels terrorist organisations have the most influence. Since becoming the ‘Red Zone’ people living in the region feel they have [...]
Youth Peace Club And Careers Training
Beginning in 2007, ARF-Pattani have been running a peace training program in 36 schools in the provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwar. Students are taught about human rights and the importance of peace. Living in conflict zones, many of the students bring personal stories of lives affected by violence – many have lost a family [...]
Peace Volunteer Program
The violence in South Thailand began in 2004 and has showed little signs of subsiding. In an effort to reverse the trend, The Southern Border Province Administration Centre (SBPAC) and Mahidol University established a peace training program in 2007. The 3 month course would train 125 local officials in South Thailand in peacebuilding techniques. In [...]
5 Years of War in Thailand’s Deep South
Pattani, Yala and Narithiwat, are on the Thai side of the Thai-Malaysian border. In an majority Buddhist country, these three provinces are around 80% Muslim. For the past 5 years these 3 provinces have been the centre of a conflict which, according to Songkhla University, over 12,500 violent incidents have left over 10,000 people have [...]
No progress in South Thailand?
A new report from the International Crisis Group states that there has been very little progress on resolving the Southern Thailand conflict, almost a year since Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva took power promising to address this region’s problems. He claimed that a solution would be based on development and justice, but International Crisis Group suggests [...]
