
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid to Myanmar
by Marte Nilsen I felt like I had defeated the dictators when I walked out of Yangon’s Mingeladon airport for the first time, more than...

Fickle Aid Strategies Compromise Indigenous Children’s Education Rights
The availability of external funding to Indigenous providers of education has become increasingly unstable in Myanmar. What does this...

What does mother-tongue based education have to do with peace in Myanmar?
Since 1962, the Burma/Myanmar government curriculum has been taught in Burmese language, despite over 100 languages being spoken by the...

အေျခခံဥပေဒေျပာင္းလဲေရး - ဖယ္ဒရယ္ေလာ? ဒီမိုုကေရစီေလာ?
Constitutional change – federalism or democracy
ျပည္ခိုုင္ျဖိဳးႏွင့္ အန္အဲလ္ဒီပါတီ ႏွစ္ဖြဲ႕မွ မၾကာေသးမွီကမွ အေျခခံဥပေဒျပင္ဆင္ေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး သေဘာထား ေၾကျငာခ်က္မ်ားထုုတ္ျပန္လာသည္ကိုု...

The division of powers in federalism – Myanmar and beyond
ဖယ္ဒရယ္စနစ္ေအာက္တြင္ အာဏာခြဲေ၀ျခင္း - ျမန္
ႏွစ္သစ္အစဦးကာလ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တိုု႔ အားလပ္ရက္ယူေနတဲ့ အခ်ိန္အေတာအတြင္းမွာ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီအေနနဲ႔ အေျခခံဥပေဒေျပာင္းလဲႏိုုင္ဖိုု႕အတြက္...

Western donors need to respect the Myanmar government’s priorities and strategies. But their support
In December, LIFT issued a call for proposals for a three-year pilot programme (USD 2.3 million) called REAL DEV, to support the process...

ဖယ္ဒရယ္ႏွင့္ ဘာသာေရး
ဖယ္ဒရယ္ႏွင့္ဘာသာေရး မည္ကဲ့သို႔ဆက္ႏြယ္ေနပါသနည္း?
Federalism and Religion (See E
ယခုတပတ္ေဆာင္းပါးအတြက္ဖယ္ဒရယ္ (federalism)၊ ဘာသာေရးကင္းရွင္းမႈ (secularism) ႏွင့္ ဘာသာေရး (religion) တို႔ၾကား ဆက္ႏြယ္မႈအေၾကာင္း...

တိုင္းရင္းသားအေျချပဳဖယ္ဒရယ္၊ နယ္နိစည္းမ်ဥ္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ခြဲထြက္ေရး
Ethnofederalism, state boundaries an
ဖယ္ဒရယ္စနစ္တစ္ခု၏အနိမ့္ဆံုးလိုအပ္ခ်က္တစ္ခုမွာ အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ အနည္းဆံုးႏွစ္ဆင့္ခန္႔ရွိရမွာျဖစ္ၿပီး အေျခခံ ဥပေဒမွဆင္းသက္သည့္ အာဏာသည္...

ဖယ္ဒရယ္စနစ္ - လူအမ်ားစုအတြက္ ဘာအက်ိဳးရွိမွာလဲ?
Federalism: What’s in it for the majority? (See Engis
ယခင္ႏွစ္ပတ္တြင္ ကြ်ႏ္ုပ္အေနျဖင့္ ဖယ္ဒရယ္စနစ္အေနျဖင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးစုမ်ား၏ ႏွစ္နာမႈမ်ား၊ ခံစားမႈမ်ားကို ဘယ္လိုကူညီေဖာ္ျပႏိုင္ၿပီး...

ဖယ္ဒရယ္စနစ္ႏွင့္ အမွတ္အသားဆိုင္ရာ ေမးခြန္း
Federalism and the identity question (See English below)
မၾကာေသးမွီလပိုင္းတြင္ တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္၏ မိန္႔ခြန္းတြင္ ပါ၀င္ေသာ ‘တပ္မေတာ္ သည္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ႏွင့္ ျပည္သူလူထုကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳသည္’...