Platform for Peace and Humanity

The Peace and Security Monitor: Indo-Pacific region

Issue 8: March 2026

Table of contents

  • The Use of Cross-Border Tensions and Nationalism in Thai and Cambodian Politics
  • Sanae Takaichi Elected: Implications for Peace and Security in Japan and East Asia

  • Underground by Design: How Lawfare and Digital Control Push Advocacy into the Shadows in Cambodia

  • Informal Social Networks During Disaster Governance of Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka

Issue 4: March 2025

 

Table of contents

 

  • Australia’s new migration laws and its impact on refugees

  • Myanmar’s cybersecurity laws and their impacts on civil society

  • Turning point: An analysis of the ongoing conflict in Manipur, India

  • Pakistan-Taliban Relations: Analysing the threat of TTP and cross-border clashes

  • The undermining of human rights under Indonesian President Subianto Prabowo

  • Transnational repression in Thailand: Analysing the assassination of Lim Kimya

  • DeepSeek AI: China’s Open-Source Challenge to Western Technological Dominance

 

Issue 3: December 2024

 

Table of contents

 

  • The South China Sea: Analysing Chinese aggression and the Philippines’ territorial claims

  • People’s Liberation? Sri Lanka’s 2024 elections see a left-wing bloc push the establishment aside

  • The death penalty in Singapore and human rights concerns

  • The recent crackdown on freedom of expression in Pakistan

  • Man-made disaster, fuelled by natural disaster: Typhoon Yagi and Myanmar’s latest crisis.

  • Freedom of expression and assembly in Cambodia

 

Issue 2: September 2024

 

Table of contents

 

  • Coup d’état: The dissolution of the Move Forward party by Thailand’s Constitutional Court

  • Red tagging in the Philippines and the likelihood of reform

  • An analysis of Malaysia’s abusive immigration detention regime

  • From campus to capitol: The student uprising that toppled a government in Bangladesh

  • India’s elections and the consequences for human rights

  • The effects of Israel’s war on Gaza in Indonesia

  • An analysis of attacks on civilians by the Myanmar military

 

Issue 1: June 2024

 

Table of contents

 

  • Disaster zone: Analysing the humanitarian response to the landslides in Papua New Guinea
  • Impacts of intensifying violence on civilians in West Papua
  • Analysing the rise of militancy in Pakistan
  • Hong Kong’s new security law and its impact on Hongkongers
  • Forgotten crisis: The realities of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
  • Sri Lanka’s humanitarian crisis: An unfolding tragedy
  • The impact of Myanmar’s mandatory conscription law on the country’s humanitarian crisis
  • Downstreaming policy: The root cause of Indigenous clashes in Indonesia’s Southeast Sulawesi Province