All tagged Political Violence
The military coup in Myanmar was more than just the result of flaws in its nascent democracy. Successive governments — military and civil alike — swept societal, ethnic, and economic challenges and inequalities under the rug for decades, crippling the growth of civil society and democratic safeguards.
In today’s world, governments are more readily able to manipulate the public’s perceived reality, just as they would an audience in a play. Separating out the front- and backstage enables actors to give their audience the impression that they are meeting standards expected of them while behaving in an entirely different manner to achieve their underlying interests.
Since the onset of the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995, The Dayton Peace Accords codified the institutionalization of ethnic division and structural and political violence against minorities in BiH. As a result, political violence has become a defining feature of the post-Dayton era Bosnia.