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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Today, I miss the panel that I had set my heart on, the one on drugs. Though I have researched and written much about...

The Thais, like the Burmese do about them, have a cock-eyed view about its western neighbor. That is one of the reasons why non-Burmans...

It is supposed to be a diplomatic coup, when President Thein Sein freed the 155 Chinese workers, that were sentenced to life imprisonment for...