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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 o...

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 outc...

Aid architecture in Myanmar. What’s the way forward? And what about civil society?

Matt Desmond reviews new ideas about the aid architecture in Myanmar and the danger of it becoming a ‘roof without walls’. A famous archi...

Religion and the Myanmar census - the international community handing off the 'hot potatoes'

Dr Kyaw Thu, director of Paung Ku, asks the question of why religion and ethnicity data was collected in the first place in the Myanmar c...

What do Human Rights have to do with World Heritage conservation in Bagan?

Anne Laura Kraak from Deakin University shares her lessons from her ongoing research on the application of a human rights based approach ...

Census data on religion and ethnicity is too sensitive. So...ummm...why was it collected in the firs

A new Myanmar Times article reveals that government officials are not willing to release the census results on religion and ethnicity bec...

Women in armed groups: changing or reinforcing gender norms

Jenny Hedstrom from Monash University brings five tentative lessons from her ongoing research on women and armed groups, with the example...

The divide between 'international' and 'local': wages and conditions in aid agencies

I can't remember the number of field trips I have been on where the foreigners have stayed in one hotel (which is more expensive) while l...

History books and Ethnic Conflict

Rose Metro talks about how the process of revising history curriculum in Myanmar can be an opportunity for reconciliation, based on her r...

Confused about Myanmar's Peace Processes

An initiative called the Myanmar Peace Monitor from BNI gives a helpful overview of the process and a dashboard which also tracks interna...

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