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Thailand: Next Door Frenemy to Myanmar?

7 Minutes To ReadMinn Myoh Minn Oo evaluates the political relationship between the Thai government and the Myanmar people.

Tags: ASEAN, conscription, ethnic armed organisations, humanitarian aid, junta, Karen National Union (KNU), Mae Sot, military coup, Myanmar people, refugees, Spring Revolution, State Administration Council (SAC), Thai-Myanmar border, Thailand, visa, youth

June 24, 2024

The Career Prospects of Sadists: Attrition, Collapse, and Myanmar’s Military (Part 2)

15 Minutes To ReadIn Part 2 of a 2-part series, Bobby Anderson considers the strengths and weaknesses of Myanmar’s military and its chances of collapse. Read Part 1

Tags: All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF), Arakan Army (AA), bamar, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Chin National Front (CNF), Chin State, China, ethnic armed organisations, Federal Political Negotiation and Consultation Committee (FPNCC), Guomindang (GMD), India, Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Karen National Union (KNU), Local Defense Forces (LDF), Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA), National League for Democracy (NLD), National Unity Government (NUG), People's Defence Force (PDF), Rakhine State, Rohingya, Russia, Shan State, Shan State Progress Party (SSPP), Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), Three Brotherhood Alliance, United Wa State Army (UWSA)

February 23, 2024

Have Christians become the next religious target of the Myanmar military after Rohingya Muslims?

8 Minutes To ReadCielo (pseudonym) argues that targeting Christians and the re-emergence of Pyu Saw Htee triggered the military’s motivation to commit atrocities.

Tags: bamar, buddhism, Chin State, Christianity, ethnic armed organisations, human rights, Islam, Karen National Union (KNU), karenni, Rohingya, Sagaing

May 15, 2023

Internal migration in Myanmar: Security trumps economic incentives

6 Minutes To ReadSai Phyoe Zin Aung reflects on reasons for internal migration out of northern Shan State. Internal migration, the phenomenon of moving from one part of a country to another, is […]

Tags: agriculture, ethnic armed organisations, migration, Shan State, Yangon

October 14, 2021

A Preliminary Analysis of the Myanmar Military Junta’s Media Propaganda

13 Minutes To ReadSix students from the University of Yangon analyze key themes in the military-controlled and state-owned media since the February 1st coup. On 1st February 2021, the Myanmar military staged a […]

Tags: ethnic armed organisations, media, military coup, Min Aung Hlaing, Myawaddy, social media

March 9, 2021

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: David’s Response: Taking the Conversation Forward (Part 4)

9 Minutes To ReadDavid Brenner discusses the synergies and productive tensions between different perspectives on Rebel Politics.

Tags: ethnic armed organisations, Kachin, Karen, political economy, rebel politics, rebellion, Salween

April 17, 2020

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Burma’s Civil War Is the Struggle of Political and Social Movements (Part 3)

4 Minutes To ReadKai Htang Lashi comments on Rebel Politics from the perspective of a Kachin activist.

Tags: activism, ethnic armed organisations, Kachin, peacebuilding, rebel politics

April 16, 2020

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Peace Inheres in Social Relations Formed during War (Part 2)

7 Minutes To ReadShona Loong discusses what Rebel Politics tells us about peacebuilding among Karen communities.

Tags: ethnic armed organisations, Kachin, Karen, Karen National Union (KNU), Mae Sot, peacebuilding, rebel politics

April 15, 2020

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Above All, Rebels Are Political (Part 1)

4 Minutes To ReadLee Jones discusses the merits of Rebel Politics in light of wider trends in the fields of Myanmar Studies and Conflict Studies. This is Part One of a four-part commentary on […]

Tags: conflict studies, ethnic armed organisations, Kachin, Karen, rebel politics

April 14, 2020

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Introduction

2 Minutes To ReadThis is an introduction to a four-part commentary on David Brenner’s monograph, Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands (Cornell University Press, 2019), in which the authors […]