Alan Davis is Asia & Eurasia Director for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting. Previously he was an award-winning journalist covering Asia and the former Yugoslavia. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/alan-davis/rss en Crises & Conflicts Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:11:51 +0000 Alan Davis https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/09/14/how-social-media-spurred-violence-against-rohingya-in-myanmar https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/09/14/how-social-media-spurred-violence-against-rohingya-in-myanmar Anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya hate speech has flourished in Myanmar in recent years, contributing to rising Islamophobia and threats against journalists reporting on it, says Alan Davis of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, which has been documenting the problem.