Yemen’s Generation without Classrooms
A decade of war and humanitarian crisis has cratered Yemen’s education system for girls. In June 1964, Malcom X said, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” In Yemen, that passport to the future has been lost in the ashesContinue Reading
Borderline Classrooms: Education at Risk in Southeast Asia’s Flashpoints
Armed clashes along the Cambodia–Thailand border in late July 2025 showed once more how fragile peace is in Southeast Asia. According to Save the Children, over 1,200 schools in both countries, including Oddar Meanchey, Preah Vihear, and Surin provinces, were closed because artillery fire and the fighting forced 134,000 peopleContinue Reading
Bias and Border: Rethinking the Cambodia-Thai Conflict in Global Media
The tensions over Cambodia and Thailand are clearly more than a border dispute and are indicative of how the power of the media and military, as well as international biases, can threaten truth and silence the authentic voice of the people. While Cambodia and Thailand have links with a sharedContinue Reading
Five Days of Fire: Lessons from the Cambodia–Thailand Border Crisis
Divergent strategies on border disputes could be solved with an ASEAN solution. But is there the political will? The fighting along the Cambodia–Thailand border in July 2025 was short-lived but very telling. More than 140,000 people were forced to leave their homes due to five days of artillery fire and skirmishes. MoreContinue Reading
Ghost Mountain: A Cambodian Refugee’s Untold Story
In 1979, the Thai-Cambodian border became the site of a harrowing but little-known tragedy, now brought to light in the powerful documentary Ghost Mountain, produced by the Preah Vihear Foundation. This film tells the story of Bunseng Taing, a Cambodian refugee who survived the Khmer Rouge’s Killing Fields only toContinue Reading