Sana Jaffrey – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Sana Jaffrey is a nonresident scholar in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is a research fellow at the Australian National University’s Department of Political and Social Change.

Jaffrey’s ongoing book project investigates the puzzling rise of vigilante violence in Asia, increasingly fueled by disinformation circulated on social media platforms. It draws on original quantitative data and extensive fieldwork in Indonesia to show how legacies of state-building interact with democratic politics to produce…