Riots
A riot () is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property, or people. Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private. The property targeted varies depending on the riot and the inclinations of those involved. Targets can include shops, cars, restaurants, state-owned institutions, and religious buildings.Riots often occur in reaction to a grievance or out of dissent. Historically, riots have occurred due to poverty, unemployment, poor living conditions, governmental oppression, taxation or conscription, conflicts between ethnic groups (race riot) or religions (sectarian violence, pogrom), the outcome …
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SFRI: Scanlon Foundation Research Institute · 19 November 2024 English
The 2024 Mapping Social Cohesion report provides a comprehensive analysis of social cohesion trends in Australia amidst a backdrop of national and global challenges. Conducted annually since 2007, this eighteenth …
evidenced by protests (and counter-protests), riots, polarised political platforms and election outcomes …
ACAPS · 18 November 2024 English
During this time, the AA and the Tatmadaw, under the authority of the State equipped to navigate the challenges and reach populations in need. [...] In the lead-up to the …
outbreaks of violence, including the 2012 communal riots that displaced thousands, armed group, both in terms …
EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 11 November 2024 English
Media freedom and pluralism are among the rights enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Article 11) and the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 10), together with freedom …
dangerous assignments – for instance, while covering riots – or because they were involved in political journalism …
CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 7 November 2024 English
Because strategic, economic, and ideological perceptions of China contain multiple, sometimes contradictory facets in Southeast Asia, receptions of and responses to Beijing diverge across and within state lines.
and Malaysia, which experienced violent racial riots only a few decades ago. Any perceived attempt by …
World Bank Group · 7 November 2024 English
The Yemen Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the past six months. It also presents findings from recent World Bank work on Yemen. The …
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Theos Think Tank · 6 November 2024 English
RE occupies an unusual place in the school this labour will be felt not only in the formation of individuals and communities, curriculum: it is included in the basic curriculum, …
million in 2021. into the aftermath of the 2024 riots highlights the role that schools, including faith … Hannah Rich, Church Responses to the August 2024 Riots (Forthcoming, 2024). 9 Ibid. 23. 36 Office of National …
DGAP: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik · 5 November 2024 English
Musk’s how quickly and effectively narratives can be shaped actions on X around the anti-immigration riots and propagated in our algorithmically driven social in the UK this summer20 and in the run-up to the …
users, influencers, and protests, or even inciting riots – all while maintaining an array of activists employing … shaped actions on X around the anti-immigration riots and propagated in our algorithmically driven social … The anti-immigrant riots that resulted, the worst their mainstream adoption is. riots in the UK in more … platform vulnerability. ing causal factors behind the riots in the real world can This aligns with the growing …
World Bank Group · 5 November 2024 English
This paper sheds light on a Malaysian paradox that may have lessons for the rest of the world. Despite high gross domestic product growth with concurrent sharp reductions in income …
non-Bumiputera in income and wealth. Following the racial riots of 1969, the government prioritized reversing these …
NIESR: National Institute of Economic and Social Research · 4 November 2024 English
A quarterly forecast on the UK economic outlook from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. The document examines the wider macro-economic context, as well as the implications on …
2035 (Bhattacharjee et al., 2024e). As the summer riots demonstrated, discontent with the economic and social …
Brenthurst Foundation · 1 November 2024 English
AFRICA’S COMING DISRUPTION How the Continent’s Youth Can Change its Destiny From Promise to Prosperity EDITED BY MARIE-NOELLE NWOKOLO, RAY HARTLEY, RICHARD MORROW STRENGTHENING AFRICA’S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Published in September …
The New Economic Model In response to the violent riots of 13 May 1969, fuelled by social, ethnic, economic … imacy. Malaysia’s NEP, introduced after the 1969 riots, exemplifies this interplay. By striving for ethnic … from Malaysia, a corrupt gov- ernment and frequent riots, Singapore fit the bill as a perfect aid recipient …