19 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud discuss the prospects of ethnic minority languages standardization..
Tags: Burmese, Chin State, ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, Kachin, Kayan, Lisu, Rawang, textbooks
September 24, 2019
20 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud discuss the teaching of ethnic minority languages in government schools.
Tags: culture, ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, policy, teaching, textbooks
September 23, 2019
4 Minutes To ReadYay Chann argues that it is time for Yangon City to build climate resilience.
Tags: climate change, environment, Hlaing Tharyar, investment, Yangon
September 12, 2019
5 Minutes To ReadKhine Zin Yu Aung discusses some of her findings on the youth and agricultural work in Myanmar.
Tags: agriculture, Chin State, myanmar, Sagaing, youth
July 22, 2019
6 Minutes To ReadYay Chann argues that Yangon City’s declining green spaces is bad for its citizens, climate change resilience and tourism.
Tags: environment, public spaces, tourism, urban planning, urbanisation, Yangon
June 24, 2019
5 Minutes To ReadLiv Gaborit and Andrew Jefferson discuss the value of amnesties in light of the recent prison riots.
Tags: detention, prison, prison reform, rule of law
June 17, 2019
9 Minutes To ReadSu-Ann Oh and Melanie Walker discuss the challenges of return to ceasefire areas faced by post-secondary schools in Karen refugee camps on the Thai-Myanmar border.
Tags: borders, educational reform, Karen, Karen State, refugee camps, refugees, Thai-Burma border
April 24, 2019
9 Minutes To ReadThein Than Win, from the Paññā Institute, and Mael Raynaud suggests that federalism is now an objective shared by the Bamar in Myanmar’s seven regions.
Tags: Bago, bamar, democratization, ethnic minorities, federalism, Sagaing
April 8, 2019
7 Minutes To ReadGregory Cathcart and Saw Chit Thet Tun examine how Mine Action activities could ignite movement in the current peace process in Karen State.
Tags: ceasefire, humanitarian aid, Karen State, militarization, peace process
February 20, 2019
9 Minutes To ReadShona Loong and Gray Rinehart discuss how local leaders in post-secondary schools pave the way for inclusive, critical, and community-based learning.
Tags: borders, community, development, educational reform, ethnic minorities, higher education, Hpa-An, Karen, refugee camps, states and regions, Tanintharyi, Thai-Burma border
February 18, 2019
15 Minutes To ReadMyat Myat Mon looks at where China-Myanmar relations have been in 2018 and where they’re heading.
Tags: Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), borders, China, Myitsone, Nay Pyi Taw, One Belt One Road, paukphaw, Tatmadaw, Yunnan
January 31, 2019
5 Minutes To ReadJaneen Sawatzkyreflects on the state of women’s and girls’ rights in Myanmar. Image courtesy of Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) Another year has drawn to a close and the […]
Tags: community-based organization (CBO), gender, human rights, sexual violence, women, women's rights
January 14, 2019
7 Minutes To ReadPaing Soe Hlaing examines how the LPG business survives and grows in Myanmar.
Tags: economy, energy, investment, liquid petroleum gas, resources
December 10, 2018
7 Minutes To ReadZaw Myat Lin discusses the impact of FDIs on sustainable human development in Myanmar.
Tags: economy, foreign investment, land rights, peace process, sustainable development
November 14, 2018
5 Minutes To ReadMyat Myat Mon discusses some priority preparations Myanmar should undertake before the launch of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor.
Tags: Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), development, economy, Kyaukphyu, One Belt One Road, Yunnan
October 10, 2018
7 Minutes To ReadHilary Faxon and Pyo Let Han reflect on the positions & politics of female farmers.
Tags: agriculture, development, farmers, feminism, land
September 19, 2018
8 Minutes To ReadMaximillian Morch writes about how local community organizations in refugee camps mitigate natural disasters but face cuts.
Tags: environment, Mae La, natural disaster, refugees, Thai-Burma border
September 12, 2018
9 Minutes To ReadNyein Thiri Swe and Zaw Min Oo from the Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation (EMReF) assess the performance of the sub-national parliaments and change in their structural constraints since the transition.
Tags: Hluttaw, parliament, states and regions, transition
August 14, 2018
4 Minutes To ReadHtet Thiha Zaw uses night time satellite images to confirm likely resettlement in Rohingya areas.
Tags: conflict, Rakhine State, resettlement, Rohingya, Sittwe
May 28, 2018
6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee explores issues which unify North East India and Myanmar.
Tags: borderlands, culture, ethnicity, India
May 3, 2018
6 Minutes To ReadThal Sandy Tun analyzes recent shifts seen in Myanmar’s energy sector.
Tags: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), development, economy, energy, investment, liquid petroleum gas, resources, Year in Review
May 1, 2018
5 Minutes To ReadAndrew Thomson considers the role of internal migrants in promoting financial inclusion in rural areas.
Tags: economy, finance, labour rights, migrant labour, migrants, policy, technology
April 30, 2018
7 Minutes To ReadMatthew J Walton looks at Ma Ba Tha’s persistence in the light of criticisms.
Tags: buddhism, governance, MaBaTha, nationalism, religion
March 7, 2018
8 Minutes To ReadJesse Hartery outlines some of the institutional barriers to federalism in Myanmar.
Tags: constitutional reform, federalism, law, legal reform, military
January 25, 2018
4 Minutes To ReadJaneen Sawatzky calls for a re-thinking of “reconciliation” in the context of Burma’s transition.
Tags: ethnic conflict, human rights, justice, peace process, reconciliation
January 18, 2018
8 Minutes To ReadJoanna Dolińska discusses features of community interpreting in Myanmar.
Tags: interpreting, language, research
November 23, 2017
11 Minutes To ReadShae A. Frydenlund uses a different lens to analyse the Rakhine State crisis.
Tags: feminism, neoliberalism, Rakhine State, Rohingya
October 25, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee gives an overview of climate change-related risks for Myanmar.
Tags: climate change, environment, natural disaster
September 4, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadAye Thein argues that the international influences on “Buddhist extremism” have been overlooked.
Tags: buddhism, Islam, nationalism, religious conflict, Rohingya
September 1, 2017
13 Minutes To ReadElliot Brennan examines Myanmar’s health system, its successes and challenges.
Tags: inequality, National Health Plan, public health
August 30, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadShagun Gupta looks at gender equality in relation to age.
Tags: equality, gender, labour, women
August 28, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson analyzes the complexities of a post-Panglong peace process.
Tags: borderlands, demobilization, disarmament, economy, Panglong, peace process, reintegration
August 25, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson analyzes the complexities of a post-Panglong peace process.
Tags: borderlands, demobilization, disarmament, economy, Panglong, peace process, reintegration
August 24, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson analyzes the complexities of a post-Panglong peace process.
Tags: borderlands, demobilization, disarmament, economy, Panglong, peace process, reintegration
August 23, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadShine Zaw-Aung reviews statistics on gender inequality.
Tags: equality, gender, government, rights, women
August 14, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadDuncan Burry notes the promise ride-hailing apps hold for Myanmar’s future.
Tags: infrastructure, ride-hailing, transportation, Yangon
August 3, 2017
9 Minutes To ReadPhacharaphorn Phanomvan digs into cross-border antiquities-smuggling practices.
Tags: borderlands, culture, Thai-Burma border, Thailand
July 10, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadDuncan Burry lays out a path for a revised Condominium Law.
Tags: development, housing, policy, urbanisation
June 23, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadEMReF researchers discuss education reform, the local parliaments, federalism and peace. Editor’s note This article has been updated to include additional references. If the issues underlying the current political […]
Tags: decentralization, ethnic languages, federalism, governance, parliament
June 14, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadThe Myanmar Media and Society team previews its current oral history project.
Tags: history, Islam, peace, religion, religious conflict
April 21, 2017
12 Minutes To ReadGiulia Garbagni draws on the St Antony’s archives to describe the Karen petition for statehood.
Tags: archives, history, Karen, nation-building, research, United Nations (UN)
April 19, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadLaur Kiik talks with a person who was at the root of the Myitsone resistance.
Tags: China, geopolitics, Kachin, Myitsone
April 17, 2017
11 Minutes To ReadMartin Michalon explains the effects of tourism on the Inlay Lake Region.
Tags: development, environment, governance, Inle Lake, tourism, travel
March 9, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadThe Myanmar Media and Society Project team explores actions that have de-escalated conflict.
Tags: media, peace, religion, religious conflict, violence
January 13, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind asks whether land claims might be calls for a re-orientation of time.
Tags: land, transition
January 10, 2017
2 Minutes To ReadMatthew Walton discusses the recent Oxford-Myanmar Policy Brief Series at Oxford University.
Tags: policy
October 20, 2016
6 Minutes To ReadKlara Christensen explores the music scene in Myanmar.
July 28, 2016
6 Minutes To ReadWith fast paced transformation, Reshmi Banerjee asks, can Myanmar once again be the ‘rice bowl’ of Asia?
Tags: agriculture, food security, resources
June 15, 2016