This is the Twitter thread summarizing the essay published in New Mandala about my fieldwork to Marawi City in December 2022. As #Marawi celebrates its Week of Peace and commemorates the Marawi Siege 6 yrs later, Raihan A. Yusoph and I reflect on the places that once characterise Marawi and how they transformed during the government-led rehabilitation … Continue reading Remembering Marawi
Visiting Professorship at Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT)
In December 2022, I had the honor to visit MSU-IIT's Center for Multidisciplinary Studies and College of Arts and Social Sciences in Iligan City, Philippines. I delivered a seminar on academic publishing, a book talk for International Peacebuilding and Local Involvement: A Liberal Renaissance, a talk about demining and reconciliation in Cambodia for the university's … Continue reading Visiting Professorship at Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT)
Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Genocide: The War on Drugs in the Philippines
In Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. and Irene Hadiprayitno's edited volume, Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity, I contributed a chapter that builds on an article I published in 2019 about the war on drugs in the Philippines and how its organized and targeted attacks are similar to … Continue reading Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Genocide: The War on Drugs in the Philippines