Forging Resilience Amidst Conflict: Climate Advocacy in Myanmar
4 Minutes To ReadMay Ying (pseudonym) explores unique challenges in building climate advocacy in conflict-torn Myanmar.
A Peep over the Border
6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee ponders Indo-Myanmar relations during the COVID-19 crisis.
Gender, Violence and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar
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 […]
Microcosms of Civic Education in Myanmar
13 Minutes To ReadKyawt Thuzar and Zoe Matthews discuss the links between civic-oriented pedagogy in Myanmar classrooms and conflict transformation.
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 […]
Opium’s Calculus (Part 3: An Ordinary Place)
11 Minutes To ReadIn the final part of this series, Bobby Anderson elaborates on the realities of opium-growing areas of Chin state, and their divergence from both existing stereotypes and the triage described in Part One and Two.
Opium’s Calculus (Part 2: The Experience of Northern Chin and Tonzang)
13 Minutes To ReadIn Part Two of a three-part series, Bobby Anderson examines the case of Tonzang and its exception to conditions for opium-funded insurgencies in Myanmar, as outlined in Part One.
Opium’s Calculus (Part 1: Abacus Beads)
22 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson, in Part One of a three-part series on opium and insurgency in Tonzang, examines some elements of traditional understandings of insurgency, statebuilding and opium.
‘Peace and education cannot be separated’
3 Minutes To ReadRadka Antalikova discusses the newly launched Graduate Research Diploma on peacebuilding and research at the Thabyay Education Foundation.
What do the night lights tell us about the Rohingya plight?
4 Minutes To ReadHtet Thiha Zaw uses night time satellite images to confirm likely resettlement in Rohingya areas.