Publications

IMAN Research identifies 6 areas which can be str engthen to improve ‘human security’ aspect. This includes mental health suppor t, protection from violence and climate resilience.

Analysing Malaysia means one has to unpack chunks of the country’s challenges: race, religion, economics and social capital, and the entry points are many. And it is true that Malaysian politics revolves around two things: race and religion. Governments and prime ministers change, but the two bogeymen live on.

Malaysia is being challenged with an increasingly polarised society, interethnic and religious tensions is on the rise, the widening gap of inequity, increasing online presence for hateful extremism and a fractured political landscape. Now, more than ever Malaysia needs to come together but this can only happen if our community is resilient and there is enough empathy from everyone.

IMAN Research (IMAN) embarked on a research and capacity building project to examine the risk of radicalisation and propensity towards violent extremism among vulnerable communities, particularly Rohingya refugees in Malaysia in 2019.

Malaysia’s 15th General Election was held on the 19th of November 2022 against the backdrop of rising cost of living, political instability and global uncertainties.

Data menunjukkan 1 daripada 5 atau 20% orang yang tinggal di kawasan konflik mengalami isu kesihatan mental (ICRC, 2021). Natijahnya, mereka yang tinggal di zon konflik menderita masalah kesihatan mental tiga kali ganda lebih berbanding masyarakat awam.