It has been more than five decades since Ted Robert Gurr asked the question, “Why Men Rebel” (1970), in most popular scholarly work of political rebellion and protest. The subsequent research often focused on grievances as main motivation behind collective mobilization (Collier Hoeffler 1998; Fearon Laitin 2003). Yet questions how why lead to group violent or nonviolent conflict onset still att...

The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has generated a large and growing number conflicts between rural communities companies over, mainly, access to land. Employing detailed documentation 150 such four Indonesian provinces, this paper assesses evaluates how local, national international NGOs help address their grievances. We find that rights-based activism characterises only ...

Introduction The 1994 genocide in Rwanda has spawned a vast literature, as scholars and policy-makers alike try to explain and to make sense of what happened. What has tended to receive less attention, however, is the complex and multi-layered conflict resolution process that preceded the genocide. It is this process – which culminated in the signing of the Arusha Accords on 4 August 1993 – tha...

This paper examines the effectiveness of recent New Zealand legislation in addressing issues of workplace disputes, with a particular focus on the role of unions. One of the most crucial aspects of the Employment Relations Act, introduced by the new Labour government in 2000, was its provision for mediation services to employers and employees. This initiative was explicitly intended to provide ...

On March 17, 2022, Mr. Evan Balgord, Executive Director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, presented Far-Right Populism in Canada: From M103 to Ottawa Occupation at Digital Roundtable event, hosted by Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS)-Vancouver. The key points discussion included connections between different far-right movements Canada how grievances beliefs on conspirac...