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UNFC TO FADE AWAY: How will the government handle the FPNCC?

As one could just enthusiastically proclaims “and then there were ten,” to the 8 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-signatory Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) another two,...

Learning to share #29: The PPST Emergency

(11-12 January 2018)  Every man is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) In December, I was planning to travel...

Signatory EAOs responded with postponement of the 21CPC to the Tatmadaw’s heavy-handedness

Simultaneously shortly after the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-signatory Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) doled out a statement to postpone the 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC),...

NLD picks up its campaign promise of constitutional amendment

People that have voted for the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD) were almost giving up hope for the amendment of...

Learning to Share: The 9th Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue

(12-15 December 2016) Every man is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Since the last Shan Drug Watch annual...

Prohibiting Shan Consultation Meetings: Stakeholders need to rethink if peaceful co-habitation is still possible

Just before the year end, a row erupted between the Shan alliance, Committee for Unity of Shan State (CSSU) and the Tatmadaw (Military) and...

Learning to share: Euro-Burma Office (EBO) 20th anniversary reception

Every man is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) On the surface, it was going to be just...

Conceptual difference on federalism: The case of Burma or Myanmar

The beating around the bush is so intense that many almost lost track of the big picture or the main goal-setting of a federal...

Learning to share: NCA-S.EAO Preparatory Meeting for UPC 21CP#3

(14-18 December 2017) Every man is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) The NCA signatories’ meeting to prepare for...

2018 THE YEAR AHEAD: Achieving peace and resolving armed conflict would remain far-fetched in Myanmar

As 2017 comes to an end the ethnic armed conflict that have plagued the country for decades seems to be escalating, rather than reducing....

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