The Peace Process: Should the names for states geo-based or ethnic based?
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I don’t believe a rose would be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables During...
Coordinated moves of NLD and Tatmadaw essential to revitalize peace process
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It is hard not to be hilarious and at the same time awesome by what Aung San Suu Kyi has been undertaking, since the...
Learning to Share: Defence White Paper (2015)
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The best fighters are never angry. Lao Zi Yes, I know experts have written their commentaries on it, since it was published in December 2015. You might...
To Hopeland and Back The 18th voyage (Day 4-5)
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Day Four. Monday, 11 April 2016 Peace is the fruit of love. To grow love requires hard work. It can also bring pain because it...
To Hopeland and Back The 18th voyage (Day 3)
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Third Day. Saturday, 10 April 2016 A mill does not run with the water that is past. Louis L’Amour, (1915-1985) The Walking Drum The most famous of...
To Hopeland and Back The 18th voyage (Day 2)
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Day Two. Friday, 9 April 2016 People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish political philosopher Heho,...
To Hopeland and Back: The 18th voyage
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I was in Burma/Myanmar, 8-12 April, the first time there for a very personal reason: reunion with my relatives, far and near, known and...
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A lot of people were quite astonished at the speedy undertakings of Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy (NLD) Chairwoman, for...
Learning to share: Conference on insider peace builders
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Day Four. Saturday, 1 April 2016 Preventing war is the work of the politicians.
Establishing peace is the work of educationists.
Maria Montessori (1870-1952), Italian physician and...
Bridging conceptual differences vital to end ethnic conflict
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While the first move of Aung San Suu Kyi has been to form a national reconciliation government, followed by restructuring, streamlining and planning so...
