A study of recent social movements in the Philippines

该项目旨在了解自20世纪70年代以来菲律宾社会运动的性质和发展。菲律宾是澳大利亚的重要邻国；这一点得到了2005年澳大利亚联邦警察和菲律宾政府之间的合作协定的认可。然而，在这个专家寥寥无几的国家，对它的研究太少了。澳大利亚需要更好地了解菲律宾，因为它将继续是一个重要的盟友。如何将东南亚激进组织的信条传递给其他潜在成员，对于澳大利亚理解区域社会运动是必要的，而这反过来又对政治互动、非政府组织工作和多元文化互动至关重要。

This project seeks to understand the nature and development of social movements in the Philippines since the 1970s. The Philippines is an important Australian neighbour; a point endorsed by the 2005 agreement of cooperation between the Australian Federal Police and the Philippine government. And yet, it is far too little studied in this country where there are very few specialists. Australia needs to understand the Philippines better as it will continue to be an important ally. How the tenets of an activist group in Southeast Asia are transmitted to other potential members is necessary to Australian understandings of regional social movements, and this in turn is vital to political interactions, to NGO work, and to multicultural interactions.