10 Minutes To ReadNaing Min Khant argues that Myanmar’s failure to define and protect indigenous rights hinders social justice and fuels ethnic conflicts.
Tags: bamar, Chin, colonialism, ethnic conflict, ethnicity, Mon, Rakhine, shan, social justice, tainyinthar
March 6, 2024
4 Minutes To ReadIn Part 3 of a 3-part series by Real Stories Not Tales (RSNT), Khin Thandar (pseudonym) tells her story post-coup that highlights a different reality and involvement than the rest of the […]
August 23, 2021
11 Minutes To ReadJae Park and Alexandre Pelletier call attention to gender in thinking about conflict in Myanmar. Despite the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in 2015, Myanmar is still at war with itself as fighting […]
Tags: conflict, decentralization, democratization, ethnic conflict, gender, Kachin, labour rights, peace process, Rakhine, shan, violence
July 8, 2020
7 Minutes To ReadChu May Paing reviews a new book on narratives of siege and fear in three cities of Myanmar.
Tags: Arakan, Book Review, Islam, Mandalay, Rakhine, Rohingya, Yangon
January 9, 2020
16 Minutes To ReadBertie Alexander Lawson explores the moral questions surrounding travel to Myanmar.
Tags: Inle Lake, morality, Nyaungshwe, Rakhine, Rohingya, tourism, travel
October 7, 2019
6 Minutes To ReadElliott Prasse-Freeman argues that a new book sacrifices analytical rigor for antipolitical “objectivity.”
Tags: Book Review, diaspora, Rakhine, Rohingya
March 20, 2019
5 Minutes To ReadAshley S. Kinseth muses on the recent Myanmar-Bangladesh Rohingya repatriation accord.
Tags: Rakhine, refugees, repatriation, Rohingya
December 13, 2017
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