ConflictBarometer_2016

ASIA AND OCEANIA
Name of conflict 1 Conflict parties 2 Conflict items Start Change 3 Int. 4
Laos (Hmong royalists)* Hmong, Royalists vs. government system/ideology, national
power
Malaysia (Malay-Chinese,
Indian, indigineous
Malaysians)*
Malaysia (opposition)
Malaysia (Sulu Sultanate
supporters / Lahad Datu
District)*
Malaysia – Indonesia,
Philippines (immigrants)*
Malay Malaysians vs. Chinese
Malaysians, Indian Malaysians,
Indigenous Malaysians
Bersih, various opposition groups vs.
government
Royal Security Forces of the Sultanate of
Sulu and North Borneo vs. government
system/ideology, subnational
predominance
1975 1
1946 1
system/ideology, national 1969 1
power
secession 2013 2
Malaysia vs. Indonesia, Philippines other 1998 1
Maldives (opposition) MDP, AP, MUO vs. government national power 2003 3
Myanmar (KIA, KIO / Kachin KIA, KIO vs. government autonomy, resources 1961 4
State)
Myanmar (KNU, KNLA, DKBA
et al. / Karen State, Kayah
State)
KNU, KNLA, DKBA, DKBA-splinter group
vs. government
autonomy 1948 3
Myanmar (MNDAA / Shan
State)*
MNDAA vs. government
subnational predominance,
resources
Myanmar (opposition)* opposition vs. government system/ideology, national
power
1989 3
1962 1
Myanmar (Rohingya) Rohingya vs. Buddhists vs. government subnational predominance 2012 4
Myanmar (socioeconomic local protesters vs. resource companies, resources 2012 3
protests)
government
Myanmar (SSA / Shan State)* SSA-N, SSA-S vs. government autonomy 1952 2
Myanmar (TNLA / Shan State) TNLA vs. government subnational predominance, 2013 4
resources
Myanmar (TNLA, RCSS / Shan TNLA vs. RCSS et al. subnational predominance 2015 3
State)
Myanmar (UNFC)
TNLA, MNDAA, NMSP, KNPP, KIA et al. vs. autonomy 2011 1
government
Myanmar (UWSA, NDAA / NDAA, UWSA vs. government autonomy 1988 2
Shan State)*
Nepal (Kiratis / Kosi, Mechi, FLP, KNF vs. FSF-N, government autonomy 1992 1
Sagarmatha)*
Nepal (Madhesis, Tharus /
Terai)*
UDMF, SLMM, MJF-L , TJSC vs.
government
autonomy 2004 3
Nepal (opposition)* opposition vs. government system/ideology, national
power
Nepal (right-wing Hindu
groups)*
RPP-N, RPP, Hindu Morcha et al. vs.
government
2008 3
system/ideology 2006 3
Nepal – Bhutan* Nepal vs. Bhutan other 1985 1
North Korea – South Korea DPRK vs. ROK territory, system/ideology, 1948 2
international power
North Korea – USA, South
Korea, Japan*
DPRK vs. Japan, South Korea, USA system/ideology, international
power, other
1990 2
North Korea, China
(defectors)
Pakistan (Baloch nationalists
/ Balochistan)
Pakistan (inter-ethnic rivalry
/ Sindh)*
Pakistan (inter-islamist
rivalry)*
Pakistan (Islamist militant
groups)
DPRK government vs. Christian aid
groups, defector support networks
BLA, BLF, BRA, UBA, BRP, BNP, LeB, BNF vs.
government
MQM, Mohajirs vs. PPP, Balochs, Sindhis
vs. ANP, Pakhtuns
TTP vs. LI vs. TNSM vs. AMNAM
TTP, LeJ, AQIS vs. government
system/ideology, other 2000 2
secession, resources 1948 3
subnational predominance,
resources
system/ideology, subnational
predominance
system/ideology, national
power
Pakistan (opposition) PAT, PTI vs. government system/ideology, national
power
Pakistan (Sunni militants –
religious groups)
1947 2
2010 2
2001 5
1998 3
TTP vs. religious groups subnational predominance 1985 3
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