The Quest for Recognition: Redefining Indigenous Identity in Myanmar
10 Minutes To ReadNaing Min Khant argues that Myanmar’s failure to define and protect indigenous rights hinders social justice and fuels ethnic conflicts.
Real Stories Not Tales, A Collection of Youth Stories (Part 3): A Rakhine perspective Post-Coup
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 […]
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 […]
Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear, by John Holt. Honolulu, Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, 2019. 301pp.
7 Minutes To ReadChu May Paing reviews a new book on narratives of siege and fear in three cities of Myanmar.
Is where you go on holiday a moral decision?
16 Minutes To ReadBertie Alexander Lawson explores the moral questions surrounding travel to Myanmar.
Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict by Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides. London: Hurst, 2018, 224pp.
6 Minutes To ReadElliott Prasse-Freeman argues that a new book sacrifices analytical rigor for antipolitical “objectivity.”
Myanmar’s Repatriation Plan Offers Little for the Rohingya
5 Minutes To ReadAshley S. Kinseth muses on the recent Myanmar-Bangladesh Rohingya repatriation accord.
The international community must listen to the voices of Burma’s internally and externally displaced people
6 Minutes To ReadPaul Sztumpf argues that the international community needs to change its humanitarian support strategy.