Buddhism and human rights
Five Lessons from my Thesis Amy Doffegnies is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Canberra, Australia. Her...
Political transition and communal violence in Myanmar: Five Lessons from my Thesis
Rather than solving communal problems, democracy can often provoke existing divisions and encourage violent conflict. James T. Davies is...
FIVE lessons from my thesis: possibilities for transformation of the Tai health system in Shan State
Sharon Bell, a PhD Candidate at Massey University, New Zealand, is researching the partnership between a small INGO and a non-state armed...
FIVE lessons from my research
Nominate yourself or your friends for a new PK Forum series. There is so much development related research being done in Myanmar these...
Villages, barbed wire and anthropology
Yangon has its fair share of barbed wire. But I found out last week that the home of barbed wire is the small town of Dekalb in Illinois...
Poverty and capability
က်ြန္ေတာ္ျငိမ္းဇာနည္နိုင္ပါ။ ကြ်န္ေတာ့္ ေဘာဂေဗဒမဟာဘြဲ႔ကို ထိုင္းနိုင္ငံ၊ ခ်ဳလာေလာင္ကြန္းတကၠသိုလ္မွာ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ျပီး ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံရဲ႔...
How do different eco-zones impact on development in Myanmar? What matters more, economic infrastruct
Pyi Pyi Thant who studied a Master of Economics in Chaing Mai University talks about her survey research on links between physical,...
Who ‘heals the healers’ in Myanmar’s mental health system?
Su Zar Mon, M.Sc (Counselling pyschology) explores the influence of work factors on burnout and job satisfaction for mental health social...
The emotions of human rights work in Myanmar
Sena Galazzi from University of London’s SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) writes about the practical and emotional effects...
Development of Major Projects in Myanmar: and capturing the real value of land
Lex Rieffel from the Brookings Institute explores the Dawei SEZ project and how different views of land ownership might bring better...