Discussion with Michele Zack, author of “The Lisu: Far from the Ruler” Award-winning journalist and historian Michele Zack writes about the egalitarian Lisu — a small ethnic group living primarily in mountainous regions of southwest China, Myanmar, and Northern Thailand. Until…
Myanmar’s new government promised media reform when it took power, but it hasn’t happened. The government, the military, or joint ventures with them dominate Burmese media. Direct ownership, regulations, and anti-defamation provisions and other restrictive laws are used to…
The Ayeyarwady research project seeks a more sustainable future for the local people of the Ayeyarwady River Basin and the communities who depend on the river for their livelihoods. To this end, it is critical to strengthen participatory and…
Session 30 Room 5 15.45 – 17.15 Friday, 16 February Urbanization is just one more facet of the wave of transformations taking place throughout Myanmar. This panel looks at the reality of urbanization as forming in the rapidly growing…
Session 1 Room 1 10.00-11.30 Friday 16 Feb (Day 1) Myanmar’s transition today is really the fourth of many “transitions”: from independence in 1948 to 1958; from 1958 to 1962; from the March 1962 coup d’etat and the Revolutionary…
