The Semester in Outputs

A quick shoutout to our students of the CIEE-Spring semester. They all worked hard on their final projects, often staying up until midnight (and much later), days in a row. The results are impressive outputs. There are many barriers for college students figuring out a reciprocal relationship to people' movements, especially in rural movements based in a different continent and a different culture. I feel confident that this group of American students was able to do just that. Here are a couple of their projects:

1) A group of students worked on a report analyzing the various published reports (Human Right Watch, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Thailand, etc.) on the violence between the Thai State and Red Shirt demonstrators during the spring of 2010.

Short version: here
Longer version: here

2) Two pairings of students wrote articles that were published on the ANU' New Mandala blog:

• Altering the History of Impunity by Jennifer Schwarz and Austyn Gaffney

• Violence Erupts in Buriram by Cassie Peabody and Meghann Venus