Conflict in Myanmar war, politics, religion

Showcases innovative research by a rising generation of scholars, analysts and practitioners about the past five years of political transformation in Myanmar. Each of its seventeen chapters builds on theoretically informed, evidence-based research to grapple with significant questions about ongoing...

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Corporate Author: Myanmar/Burma Update Conference Australian National University
Other Authors: Cheesman, Nick (Editor), Farrelly, Nicholas 1982- (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute 2016
Series:Myanmar update series
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Table of Contents:
  • Myanmar's conflicted politics
  • The politics of policymaking in transitional government: A case study of the ethnic peace process in Myanmar
  • Reexamining the centrality of ethnic identity to the Kachin conflict
  • A feminist political economy analysis of insecurity and violence in Kachin State
  • Pacifying the margins: The Pa-O Self-Administered Zone and the political order in southern Shan State
  • Landmines as a form of community protection in eastern Myanmar
  • The 2015 elections and conflict dynamics in Myanmar
  • Institutions in Myanmar's 2015 election: The election commission, international agencies, and the military
  • Ethnicity and Buddhist nationalism in the 2015 Rakhine State election results
  • The Hluttaw and conflicts in Myanmar
  • Legislating reform? Law and conflict in Myanmar
  • Making sense of reactions to communal violence in Myanmar
  • Public perceptions of a divided Myanmar: Findings from the 2015 Myanmar Asian Barometer Survey
  • On Islamophobes and Holocaust deniers: Making sense of violence, in Myanmar and elsewhere
  • Buddhist welfare and the limits of big 'P' politics in provincial Myanmar
  • Threat perceptions in the Myanmar-Bangladesh borderlands
  • Myanmar and the promise of the political