14 Minutes To ReadHitomi Fujimura explores how Karen Baptists understood “modern knowledge” in nineteenth-century America.
Tags: Burma, Christianity, Karen, modernity, railways
March 14, 2022
7 Minutes To ReadAryuwat Raruen explains why durable solutions must be accountable to refugee voices. Read the Burmese version of this post here. A refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, photo by Aryuwat Raruen. Successive […]
Tags: Karen, refugees, repatriation, resettlement, Thai-Burma border, UNHCR
September 8, 2021
8 Minutes To ReadShona Loong reflects on grief, heartbreak, and hope among Karen communities after the February 2021 coup. Image courtesy of Shona Loong Words cannot express I found out about the coup on […]
Tags: Hpa-An, Karen, military coup
February 4, 2021
15 Minutes To ReadShona Loong uses world histories of anti-colonial nationalism to reexamine the Karen struggle.
Tags: bamar, Burman, colonialism, federalism, history, Karen, nationalism, Salween
August 13, 2020
9 Minutes To ReadEwan Cameron argues that we need to see ethnic languages as resources rather than problems to be overcome.
Tags: ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, Karen, Mon, Sgaw Karen
April 28, 2020
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
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
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
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 […]
Tags: borderlands, conflict, ethnic armed organisations, Kachin, Karen, rebel politics, rebellion
7 Minutes To ReadMaggi Quadrini argues that funding requirements for locally run non-profits put them at a disadvantage.
Tags: borders, community-based organization (CBO), donors, international aid, Karen, Mae Sot, PlayOnside, refugees, Thai-Burma border
November 19, 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 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
21 Minutes To ReadAngshuman Choudhury analyses the recent bouts of rebel-military violence in Myanmar and assesses their implications for the peace process ahead.
Tags: Arakan, Arakan Army (AA), ceasefire, Chin, ethnic conflict, IDP, insurgency, Kachin, Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Karen, Karen National Union (KNU), Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), Panglong Conference, peace process, Tatmadaw
June 7, 2018
8 Minutes To ReadEwan Cameron argues for the validity of ‘Myanma English’ in a global world.
Tags: Burmese, culture, Karen, language
April 26, 2018
8 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud pays tribute to a bold, bridge-building Karen leader.
Tags: civil society, Kachin, Karen, Karen National Union (KNU), Mae Sot, Panglong, saffron revolution, Thai-Burma border
February 14, 2018
6 Minutes To ReadPaul Sztumpf argues that the international community needs to change its humanitarian support strategy.
Tags: humanitarian aid, IDP, international aid, Karen, Rakhine, refugees, Rohingya, Shan State
December 12, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadLuke Corbin reviews Charmaine Craig’s new book, “Miss Burma.”
Tags: Book Review, Karen
October 2, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadTea Circle reviews the last of four panels from a recent Oxford workshop on the Karen. Parts 1, 2 and 3 can be found here, here and here.
Tags: conflict, diaspora, Karen, migration, National League for Democracy (NLD)
July 21, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadJustine Chambers reviews the third of four panels from a recent Oxford workshop on the Karen.
Tags: diaspora, ethnic minorities, Karen, migration
July 20, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadGreg Cathcart and Gerard McCarthy review the second of four panels from a recent Oxford workshop on the Karen.
Tags: ceasefire, governance, Karen, Karen National Union (KNU), peace process
July 19, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadTea Circle reviews the first of four panels from a recent Oxford workshop on the Karen.
Tags: diaspora, ethnic minorities, Karen, migration, transition
July 18, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadPia Jolliffe interviews anthropologist Mikael Gravers.
Tags: anthropology, ethnicity, Karen, nationalism, research
July 6, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadPia Jolliffe interviews anthropologist Mikael Gravers.
Tags: anthropology, ethnic conflict, ethnicity, Karen, nationalism, research
July 5, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadAshley South visits rural Karen communities on holiday.
Tags: borders, Karen, Karen National Union (KNU)
May 5, 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
5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Pia Jolliffe’s new book on the Karen and the gift of education.
Tags: Book Review, Karen, migration
November 28, 2016
2 Minutes To ReadA poem by Nwe Nwe Lwin, dedicated to the victims of the current armed conflict.
Tags: displacement, Karen, Poetry, violence
October 12, 2016
6 Minutes To ReadPaul Eustice reflects on his time spent at Mae Ra Ma Luang refugee camp in Part 2 of a 3-part series.
Tags: justice, Karen, refugees
August 12, 2016
5 Minutes To ReadPaul Eustice reflects on his time spent at Mae Ra Ma Luang refugee camp in Part 1 of a 3-part series. Editor’s Note What follows is the first of a series […]
Tags: Karen, refugees, transition
August 9, 2016
4 Minutes To ReadMatthew Walton considers the range of topics in recent work on Myanmar.
Tags: burma studies, Burmese, democracy, Karen, refugees, religious conflict, research
November 4, 2015