DUAL-TRACK CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT APPROACH: Parliamentary and NCA-based peace process
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EMPOWERING PEACE MOVEMENT: Way out from elusive peace and political dialogue stagnation
Stalled peace negotiation process and lack of political dialogue have now pushed back the country to where it has started in 2011. The then...
Disruption of EAOs’ meeting by Tatmadaw against reconciliation
Once again, on June 7, the Tatmadaw or Myanmar military attache for Thailand brigadier general Khin Zaw wrote to his Thai counterpart colonel Pattana...
END OF PEACE PROCESS: After almost nine years of peace deliberation back to square one?
The Karen National Union (KNU) proposed formation of new talk-shop dubbed as Peace Process Consultative Meeting (PPCM) aiming to include all Ethnic Armed Organizations...
Displaced Shan villagers along Shan-Thai border in limbo
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AFTERMATH OF C-IN-C TWITTER BAN: Social media impact on government-ethnic relation
As commander-in-chief general Min Aung Hlaing's Twitter account was taken out, due to the lobbying of Maung Tun Khin, a well known Rohingya leader...
High time for the Shan to unite
All eyes have been long on the inter-ethnic conflict between the two Shan armies in northern Shan state, even though the initial spark of...
55th SSPP FOUNDING ANNIVERSARY: Will a show of good will be recognized?
On April 24, the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) and its military wing Shan State Army (SSA) held an event commemorating its 55th founding...
KNU temporary hiatus from peace process: Is reconciliation still possible?
Hardly has the sharp tone of the Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Laing died down, when he sabotaged the top leaders' meeting of government-military and Ethnic...
Underground
David Scott Mathieson SAWANGWONGSE YAWNGHWE
Peace Industrial Complex
9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9),
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art:
November 2018
Myanmar’s civil war is both...
