10 Minutes To ReadCecile Medail examines voices of local people in Mon State on the power of symbolic gestures in building trust between groups.
Tags: ethnic minorities, ethnicity, Mon, National League for Democracy (NLD)
November 14, 2017
14 Minutes To ReadTim Frewer shows the limits of liberal analyses of the Rohingya crisis.
Tags: conflict, liberalism, neoliberalism, policy, Rohingya
October 19, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadLiu Yun looks at an influential figure in the peace process.
Tags: borderlands, borders, China, ethnic conflict, ethnic politics, Kokang, peace process, Tatmadaw
October 16, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadEwan Cameron questions why the EU-Myanmar Investment Protection Agreement is being sold as common sense.
Tags: development, economy, foreign investment
October 12, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadAlex Aung Khant reflects on the recurring nature of the urban problems he encounters daily.
Tags: citizenship, infrastructure, labour, urban planning, urban politics, Yangon
October 4, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadAlex Aung Khant on navigating the media.
Tags: media, Rakhine State, social media, technology
September 29, 2017
17 Minutes To ReadSoe Lin Aung offers an intervention into analyses of the Rohingya crisis.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, capitalism, history, Rohingya
September 27, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadHaroon Atcha argues for a more critical appraisal of Myanmar’s de facto leader.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy (NLD), Rakhine State, Rohingya
September 25, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadKhinZaw Win on the worsening, bloody business-as-usual in Rakhine.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy (NLD), Rakhine State, Rohingya, Tatmadaw
September 11, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadVeronica Collins argues that government silence on Burma’s bloody past has led to ongoing human rights abuses.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, government, human rights, memory, National League for Democracy (NLD), reconciliation, Tatmadaw
August 18, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadMay Thu Khine adds to the discussion on gender equality in Myanmar.
Tags: equality, gender, rights, women
August 11, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadBrandon Aung Moe challenges the notion of the disempowered Burmese woman.
Tags: culture, gender, rights, women, women's rights
August 9, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadFortify Rights responds to debate over graphic video footage disseminated in May.
Tags: ethnic conflict, media, Rohingya, social media
August 7, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadJulian Kirchherr and Matthew J Walton urge a shift of focus to other dams in Myanmar.
Tags: environment, Myitsone, National League for Democracy (NLD), Salween
August 1, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadYaw Bawm Mangshang analyzes reporting on ethnic conflict.
Tags: ethnic armed organisations, ethnicity, federalism, media, news
July 31, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadDavid Scott Mathieson explores the pernicious effects of fake news on complex conflicts.
Tags: ethnic conflict, Facebook, media, news, Rohingya, social media
July 24, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadMatthew J Walton muses on the effects of misleading narratives of the independence era. The myths of ethnic unity are alive and well in contemporary Myanmar. While we might expect misleading […]
Tags: ethnic conflict, ethnic minorities, ethnicity, independence, Panglong
July 13, 2017
9 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud looks at the factors that both impede and enable Myanmar’s politics.
Tags: civil society, governance, military, National League for Democracy (NLD), youth
June 29, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadDavid Dapice describes the internal and external challenges facing the present government.
Tags: China, ethnic conflict, Kokang, National League for Democracy (NLD)
June 26, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadErin McAuliffe considers trends in new research on Burma/Myanmar.
Tags: burma studies, Myanmar Studies
June 9, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadShae Frydenlund describes last month’s graduate student workshop.
Tags: burma studies, Myanmar Studies
5 Minutes To ReadKyaw Kyaw Thein wonders how much the media landscape has really improved.
Tags: media, National League for Democracy (NLD), press freedom, reform
June 5, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadKyaw Sit Naing describes the difficulties of entrepreneurship in Myanmar.
Tags: finance, technology, transition
May 25, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadStephen Weedon discusses the state of Myanmar’s insurance industry.
Tags: investment, transition
May 23, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadPhyu Phyu Thin Zaw discusses what’s missing in the education reform process.
Tags: curriculum, educational reform, ethnic languages, ethnicity
May 19, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadYan Naung Oak explains the current and future uses of open data in Myanmar.
Tags: civil society, development, elections, technology
May 15, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadBrandon Aung Moe looks at regional lessons for Myanmar’s educational reform.
Tags: educational reform, infrastructure, Southeast Asia, youth
May 2, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud considers what education reform debates reveal about current political conditions.
Tags: educational reform, National League for Democracy (NLD)
April 3, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadMatthew J Walton looks at the controversy over a bridge in Mon State.
Tags: Aung San, ethnic minorities, ethnic politics, ethnicity, Mon State, National League for Democracy (NLD)
March 29, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadAn update from Liu Yun after the recent Pangkham summit.
Tags: China, ethnic conflict, peace process, Wa
March 27, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadJoanna Dolińska reviews the challenges associated with interpreting and translating in Myanmar.
Tags: Burmese, interpreting, Thabyay Education Foundation, translation
March 23, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadAung Khant muses on Yangon’s drainage and infrastructure challenges.
Tags: development, infrastructure, urban politics, Yangon
March 20, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadReshmi Bannerjee reflects on some of Myanmar’s famous waterways.
February 16, 2017
11 Minutes To ReadPhacharaphorn Phanomvan reflects on the role of female Buddhist practitioners in Buddhist societies.
Tags: buddhism, gender, religion, Thailand, women
February 10, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadKhin Zaw Win shares enthusiasm about growing public sentiment for peace.
Tags: activism, peace, violence
January 23, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadDiana Huynh explores the possibilities for Yangon’s future development.
Tags: National League for Democracy (NLD), urban planning, urbanisation, Yangon
January 20, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadLiu Yun considers whether things have changed in the realm of civil-military relations.
Tags: National League for Democracy (NLD), peace process
December 21, 2016
5 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud argues that while options have broadened for Myanmar’s youth, education remains key.
December 10, 2016
5 Minutes To ReadKhin Zaw Win discusses the recent offensive by the “Northern alliance” and its implications.
Tags: peace process
December 7, 2016
4 Minutes To ReadAung Khant reflects on possibilities available to Myanmar youth, and the future openings and lingering limits they represent.
Tags: transition, youth
December 1, 2016
4 Minutes To ReadHsu Myat Thazin discusses questions of consumerism, capitalism, and links to a new dependence on social media.
Tags: capitalism, social media, Yangon
November 11, 2016
4 Minutes To ReadAung Khant reflects on the loss of U Aung Htike for Myanmar’s political future.
Tags: National League for Democracy (NLD), Yangon
September 28, 2016
12 Minutes To ReadEi Thindar Myint reflects on gender politics in Myanmar.
September 8, 2016
7 Minutes To ReadHtet Moe Nwe Win reflects on growing up in Myanmar’s gendered society.
August 10, 2016
4 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind suggests new ways to understand change and its manifestations in Myanmar.
Tags: land, research, transition
May 11, 2016
3 Minutes To ReadHtet examines challenges facing women in Myanmar politics.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, gender, National League for Democracy (NLD), women
April 9, 2016
7 Minutes To ReadRasmus Schjoedt considers the implications of the elections on Myanmar’s political transition.
Tags: democracy, rule of law, transition
February 19, 2016
3 Minutes To ReadVen (pseudonym) considers the state of Myanmar’s politics.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, constitutional reform, military, National League for Democracy (NLD), transition
February 15, 2016
3 Minutes To ReadAlex Aung Khant considers recent political reforms in Myanmar.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, democracy, National League for Democracy (NLD), transition
February 2, 2016
3 Minutes To ReadMatthew Walton speaks about his conversation with a taxi sayama in Yangon.
Tags: gender, livelihoods, women, Yangon
January 21, 2016