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Panel: Roles of Ethnic Organizations in Promoting Grassroots Peace and Community Security in Myanmar

March 7, 2021
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Session 35: Sunday, 7 March, 10.15-11.45Convener: Makiko TakedaDiscussant: Chosein Yamahata In this panel, each author focuses on a different type of ethnic organization in Myanmar and analyses the approaches and means to foster peace, security, and social transformation from the grassroots level. Four research papers by the panelists will be tabled for discussion with the following objectives: (1) identify similarities and differences among different types ofethnic organizations (2) reveal their ways and means to approach the problems, issues, and challenges in the form of community initiatives (3) list the measures and steps to empower them and intervene towards transforming negative...

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Plenary: Reflections on the Military Coup and CDM in Myanmar

March 5, 2021
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Saturday begins with the ICBMS3 plenary session, “Reflections on the military coup and Civil Disobedience Movement in Myanmar” with three speakers taking on the elephant in the room: the coup and the anti-coup CDM movement. Speakers include: Dr. Khin Mar Mar Kyi, International Gender Studies, The University of Oxford, “Thanakha's Defiance: Generations, Gender & Social Movement in Myanmar against the Military Regime” Naw May Oo Mutraw, Senior Policy Advisor, The Salween Institute for Public Policy, “Burma: a Chronic Constitutional Crisis and a Call for a New Political Culture” Dr. Ashley South, Research Fellow, Chiang Mai University"Reflections on the Military coup,...

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Roundtable: Deadlocks in Burma’s Politics – Ethnic Regions & Central Myanmar

January 21, 2021
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Photo: archive This roundtable will be held in two sessions, coordinated by Chosein Yamahata from the Graduate School of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University, and Catherine Renshaw from Western Sydney University, Australia. This roundtable examines Myanmar’s major deadlocks by analyzing the root causes of ethnic conflicts in different parts of the country, other pressing activities/changes in the areas of major ethnic groups, and the marginalization of non-Buddhist ethnic communities from thefollowing aspects. • International law instruments and the constitution• The deadlocked peace and the promotion of federalism• Academic/media freedoms, civil liberties, and ethnic equality• Health security, humanitarian assistance and lifelines...

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