Janjira Sombatpoonsiri

Janjira Sombatpoonsiri (PhD) is a lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at Thailand's Thammasat University. She is also co-Secretariat General of the Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA).

Assessing civil resistance: social movements' instrumentalisation of nonviolent tactics in Thailand and beyond

Nonviolent civil resistance is not immune to perpetuating existing structural and cultural violence unless nonviolence activists and researchers learn to develop strategies for identifying 'negative nonviolence' acts which support oppression.

By Janjira Sombatpoonsiri

/ 13 Sep 2014