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The Impact of Intra-State Conflict to Regional Stability and ASEAN Community

The Impact of Intra-State Conflict to Regional Stability and ASEAN Community. By Riefqi Muna Researcher in International Security, Centre for Political Studies, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2P-LIPI) Jakarta Email: nusantara1@gmail.com Twitter: @ RiefqiMuna. Introduction.

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The Impact of Intra-State Conflict to Regional Stability and ASEAN Community

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  1. The Impact of Intra-State Conflict to Regional Stability and ASEAN Community By RiefqiMuna Researcher in International Security, Centre for Political Studies, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2P-LIPI) Jakarta Email: nusantara1@gmail.com Twitter: @RiefqiMuna

  2. Introduction • Level of analysis: Regional • Intra-State (Violence ) conflict • State Response and issue of sovereignty • Challenges and Opportunities: ASEAN Political & Security Community (2015?) (c) 2013 Riefqi Muna

  3. Intra-State Conflict in ASEAN • Three mayor cases: Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines • Post-colonial legacy and unfinished charting boundaries • Consequences of Violent Conflict • Protracted, causes lots of death, injuries, (unnecessary) humanitarian suffering • Psychological impact to society, vulnerable groups: woman, children. • Society of fear and distrust, culture of violence (trough SALW), lost of human sensitivity, revenge ,enemy project (otherness dehumanizing others/enemy. • Requires peace building process and commitment (c) 2013 RiefqiMuna

  4. States Response • Using military means: Domestic use of military forces • Military means did not provide adequate solution to the problem, but otherwise. • Social reproduction of violence, spiral effect • Peace-process, peace-building, peacekeeping (new mandate of PKO: protecting vulnerable, woman, children) • Some success story (Aceh) • ASEAN behavior: non-interference. (c) 2013 Riefqi Muna

  5. Toward ASEAN Political (Security) Community • Characteristic of APSC (Blue-Print) • A Rule based community and shared values and norms • A cohesive, peaceful, stable, and resilient region with shared responsibility for comprehensive security • A dynamic and outward looking region in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world. • Principle of Security Community • Concept of security community: “a region in which a use of force (such as war) has become unlikely or even unthinkable” (Karl Deuthch • Political development: justice, democratic, harmonious, human rights, and people centeredness, good governance. • Norms building: TAC, ASEAN Charter etc to counter terrorism. • Conflict Prevention: CBM, Preventive Diplomacy, non-traditional security, strengthen state sovereignty • Conflict Resolution: Mechanism to conflict resolution, cooperation in peace and stability • Post-Conflict: ASEAN Humanitarian Assistance, post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation (c) 2013 Riefqi Muna

  6. Challenges and Opportunities to ASEAN Community 2015 • Lack of common identity: Identity remains a big question. We “feeling” as community of ASEAN. “ASEAN-ness” still weak. • Intrastate conflict and interstate (borders, overlapping claims) and how to solve peacefully, democratically (multicultural democracy of ASEAN) • Sovereignty-centric perspectives • Take ASEAN Community 2015 as a spirit and entrance to build peace in the region, solving conflict peacefully, respect to human rights. (c) 2013 Riefqi Muna

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