Violence, Human Rights, and Democracy in the Philippines
EVIDENCE-BASED RESEARCH
ABOUT
A multisectoral undertaking to produce, and subsequently disseminate, rigorous research outputs that can sustain an evidence-based intervention in ongoing public debates in the Philippines about violence and tendencies towards authoritarianism.
GROUNDED RESEARCH
We first want to address what exactly is happening in localities before asking the question of why does a phenomenon happening in these localities.
Variation Across Localities
Multidisciplinary Approach
COUNTRY-WIDE
Case Studies
The research introduces 11 case studies based on the deployment and experiences of violence in different localities across the country, as well as the creation of a database in counting the dead from Duterte’s war on drugs.
Luzon
Segregating Lives, Recycling Violence: Examining the Local Dynamics of Rodrigo Duterte’s Drug War in Barangay Payatas
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Violence Against Women in the Time of Tokhang: A Feminist Action Research on the Killing Fields of Bulacan Province
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The Silent Menace: Abra’s Drug Story
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Tokhang in Caloocan: Weaponizing Local Governance, “Social Disarticulation,” and Community Resistance
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Visayas
Dissent and Its Consequences under the Duterte Administration: The Cebu Experience
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The Subnational Dynamics of the War on Drugs: The Case of Iloilo City
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Mindanao
Factors and forces that led to the Marawi debacle
(This is an excerpt from a case study written by the author for the project, “Violence, Human Rights, and Democracy in the Philippines.” The project is a joint undertaking by the Third World Studies Center, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the...
Martial Law, Militarization, and the Manobos of Han-ayan
Client Since 1995(On December 4, 2019 Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana was quoted in media reports that he is not recommending to President Rodrigo Duterte the extension of martial law in Mindanao. The original declaration was made by President Duterte on May 23,...
Mirroring Duterte
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Politics of Prowess: (Re)animating Violence, Politics, and Democracy in a Philippine Political Frontier
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REAL DATA
Database of Drug-Related Deaths
This section details the experience of the researchers in developing the database in counting the dead, as well as the template, coding guide, etc. The files are free to download to promote our advocacy of documenting these violent deaths prone to erasure from the collective memory.
COMPILED CASE STUDIES
Open Access Book
This section shares the edited volume based on the case studies. The book and its chapters are free to download or share to promote our advocacy of sharing the results of evidence-based research to the public.