Development is a new concept in Myanmar’s political literature. International development experts, agencies and specialists in many fields have been flying in and out to Myanmar in the past five years.
Read More »Fixing the Broken Union of Burma; the armed ethnic leaders’ last step to political legitimacy and the case of constitutional power for the ethnic states in the modern era
Preamble: We, the people of Burma, including the frontier areas and the Karenni states, are determined to establish in strength and unity a sovereign independent state,
Read More »Burma’s CSO leaders: Alternative leadership to build peace and vibrant communities in 21st century
The role of Civil Society Organizations emerged in Burma during the late 1990s led by students and citizen journalists in Yangon. The term “CSO” has been used in both the Burmese and English media over the past 30 years.
Read More »Burma Peace Process displays high expectations with low outcomes for the local community services: The Case of Local Gov’t discourse
The people of Burma regardless of race, gender, religion or social-economic status have been expecting an end to the internal war with increased health and well being in each village, town and city over the past 70 years.
Read More »Myanmar’s peace process battling political principles and ideologies: Room for improvement at the negotiation table
They are the final and most popular words being used in our country. The phrase ‘Union of Myanmar’ has dominated news, reports and features over the past hundred days.
Read More »Mon Nationalist rhetoric in the emerging social-liberal democracy in Myanmar: The Case of the Political Balancing Act
The words democracy, freedom, federal and liberal have dominated Mon and Burmese political literature over the past twenty years in different ways and under different definitions based on the many social, cultural and political beliefs within the society at large. Mon and Burmese
Read More »The Ethnic Alliances: it’s rhetoric and substance in Myanmar’s modern political transition
By Banya Hongsar, Part: 2 Historical ethnic political alliance: The leaders of ethnic armed insurgencies expressed in a formal statement that ‘in the deliberation, we determined that since the time of independence in 1948, successive regimes in power have violated the right to “equality of all citizens irrespective of race,” …
Read More »The Ethnic Alliances: it’s rhetoric and substance in Burma’s modern political transition
Part 1: The politics of alliance has never been defined in its own narrative within the ethnic writer and scholar in modern political literature in English. However, it has been well written in Burmese and other ethnic languages in the country. It is a complex issue to be explored by …
Read More »Searching for Inter-Ethnic Unity: Common ground for Karen and Mon
Searching for inter-ethnic unity in Burma / Myanmar has been an un-reached destination for over half a century. Inter-ethnic unity had been broken as ever before in the last two years during and after Peace Process. The non-signatory and cease-fire groups have been divided in last year just before the …
Read More »Transformation of Mon social, political and insurgency trends in southern Burma
The Mon people and their own small de-facto State, located in the south of Myanmar, won only four seats in Myanmar’s general elections last November despite having more than 50 ethnic Mon candidates on the ballot.
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