Learning to share: Conference on  insider peace builders Day Three. Thursday, 31 March 2016 Peacemaking involves stopping an ongoing conflict, whereas peacebuilding happens before a conflict...

Learning to share: Conference on insider peace builders Day Two. Wednesday, 30 March 2016 Peacebuilding is an intervention that is designed to prevent the start or...

Peacemaking is about peaceful, diplomatic and judicial means of resolving disputes. From Chapter 6 of UN Charter, insightonconflict.org From 29 March -1 April, I was in...

Hardly has the historic power transfer from quasi-civilian, military dominated regime of Thein Sein to National League for Democracy (NLD)-led civilian majority government settled...

Day Three. Saturday, 26 March 2016 We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure...

Day Two. Friday, 25 March 2016 Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: Avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If these enemies were to be...

As the last phase of power transition is taking place, the ethnic nationalities' armed and unarmed groups are scrambling to interact, each in its...

The 8 ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) that were, together with the government, military and legislature, joint signatories of the historic (“hysteric”, according to some...

As the final stage of power transfer from quasi-civilian government of Thein Sein to Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD) regime...

The creation of Pat Jasan and its ‘people’s war on drugs' have brought to light a number of key drug-related problems facing not only...