CATEGORY

Opinions

Pulling through the NCA with astrological help?

With the coinciding symbol of 9999, the meeting, on 9 September, with 9 members delegation - 5 high-level Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs), together with...

November election through ethnic lens

As 8 November nationwide election draws nearer, the speculation, on how the ethnic political parties would fare and simultaneously able to address and achieve...

NAYPYITAW MEETING: Would ethnic coalition compromised posture lead to nationwide ceasefire signing?

The ethnic leadership meeting from 21 to 24 August, in Chiangmai, Thailand, was supposed to be a showdown between the pro and contra factions...

ALL-INCLUSIVENESS IN AN ETHNIC CONTEXT

After what had been recognised as successful talks in July that brought the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) closer to fruition only three points remained...

Negotiation-trust relationship in the nationwide ceasefire process: Reflections of an outsider

Should a win-win solution be the focus of the negotiation parties and negotiations? What is the role of trust in negotiations? To the author, negotiation is...

Thein Sein’s last-ditch effort to achieve nationwide ceasefire

Quite a lot has happened during a time span of a week. It started out with the President Thein Sein's invitation of 15 Ethnic...

Government’s inner party struggle: Would USDP become a democratic mass party?

With the purge of parliamentary house speaker, Thura Shwe Mann, the military backed party Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), which was transformed from...

Ethnic, Civic and Nation Identities in Contemporary Burma

A common, national identity in a multi-ethnic state is one of the most crucial components in a nation-building process. In this respect, Burma has had...

Ninth Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement: Chance to end man-made disaster is within reach?

As expected, the ninth Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) get stuck on “all-inclusiveness”, although it was hailed to be able to wrap up most controversial...

Day Three, Sunday, 26 July 2015

Today, I’m at the Uniserv, where the conference takes place, before 08: 00, because the first panel is going to begin at that time...

Latest news