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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...

THE MILITARY’S DEMOCRATIZATION DEBACLE: Tatmadaw not keen to return to the barracks

It is good that gathering like “Forum on Myanmar Democratic Transition” held from August 11 to 13, which was attended by government's several ministers...

SIXTH UNFC-GOVERNMENT MEETING: “Is the glass half empty or half full?”

Again, the official sixth meeting between the United Nationalities Federal Council's (UNFC) Delegation for Political Dialogue (DPN) and the government's Peace Commission (PC) held...

Learning to share: Another story for our time

Last week, there was a discussion on whether the Union constitution adopted in 2008—by questionable means―should be amended or rewritten. Nobody had asked them whether...

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