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KIA Recruitment Rocks Kachin’s Waingmaw Township

On October 4, the Kachin Independence Armay (KIA), in its troops recruitment drive that seems to be part of the scheme for territorial and...

BURMA’S NEGATIVE IMAGE: Adherence to universal human rights, anti-racism and anti-ethnocentrism keys to become mainstream

The international opinion on Myanmar or Burma is undoubtedly very negative these days and there is no argument on that, of course with the...

UNFC held stakeholders meeting unable to instill peace process optimism

With the aim to forge a common policy, the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) held a stakeholders' meeting for four days from September 27...

Independence Referendums in Catalonia and Kurdistan: Lessons for ethnic conflict resolution in Burma?

While humanitarian catastrophe in Burma's Arakan or Rakhine State, the nuclear proliferation in North Korea and the risk of a nuclear war, earthquake in...

ARMED CONFLICT RESUMES IN NORTHERN SHAN STATE: After a month lull, conflict continues between the TNLA and Tatmadaw

Many might have thought that, with the ongoing and growing problematic in Rakhine State reaching international height that has caught United Nations attention and...

To Hopeland and Back: The 32nd trip

(11-15 September 2017) Everyman is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) My trip this time had two purposes: I...

Learning to Share: The PPST Strategic Meeting

(4-7 September 2017) Everyman is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) I’m sure I’m not the first one to...

TRUST-BUILDING INITAITIVE: RCSS’s Nay Pyi Taw Visit

Following weeks of negative bad press stemming from the conflict in Arakan State, the Restoration Council of Shan State's (RCSS) visit, due to the...

TERMINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AID: Shan refugees in the limbo

While the conflict situation in Arakan State is making international headlines, a little less known catastrophe in the making is brewing along the Thai-Burma...

ROHINGYA CONFLICT: Is a compromised solution still on the table?

In any conflict it is always the hardest part to give way from one's entrenched position to a middle ground, or should we say...

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