Deciphering Myanmar’s Peace Process – A Reference Guide (2014)

The political sensitivity and scale of the peace negotiations and conflict have again posed a major challenge in collecting complete and accurate data for this book. While we have received the generous support of insider sources for our data, this remains far from gaining a complete picture of the myriad components of Myanmar’s peace process. We have also tried to the best of our ability to provide overview statistics that give a sense of the scale and impact of developments occurring over the past year […]

Economics of Peace and Conflict

This report aims to clarify the complex processes of solving economic grievances related to the peace process. Examining how these efforts work and how the different actors, policies and projects make up a larger framework may help in assessing how well they respond to the roots of conflict. It especially tries to understand how the many different ministries, committees, international donors, CBOs, businesses (domestic and foreign) and NSAGs work together, overlap, or contradict each other in achieving economic and development goals for national peace […]

BNI Opposed to New Media Law

Burma News International, which consists of various ethnics media groups, opposes the new media law submitted by the Ministry of Information to the People’s Parliament.

“Printers and Publishers Registration Law has allowed the Ministry of Information to control the freedom of media agencies. This can be damaged the right to freedom of the press.” BNI development officer Nan Paw Gay said […]

ပံုႏွိပ္ျခင္းႏွင့္ ထုတ္ေ၀ျခင္း လုပ္ငန္း ဥပေဒၾကမ္းအား BNI ကန္႔ကြက္

ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္က ဇူလိုင္လ ၄ ရက္ေန႔က အတည္ျပဳလိုက္သည့္ ပံုႏွိပ္ျခင္းႏွင့္ ထုတ္ေ၀ျခင္း လုပ္ငန္း ဥပေဒၾကမ္းကို တိုင္းရင္းသားမီဒီယာ အမ်ားစု ပါ၀င္ဖြဲ႕စည္း ထားသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ျမန္မာ့သတင္း (Burma News International- BNI) က ကန္႔ကြက္လိုက္ပါသည္။ “ဒီဥပေဒဟာ အစိုးရရဲ႕၀န္ၾကီးဌာန ျဖစ္တဲ့ ျပန္ၾကားေရး ၀န္ၾကီးဌာနကို သတင္းဌာနေတြရဲ႕ မွတ္ပံုုတင္ခြင့္ကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ခြင့္ေပးလိုက္တာ ျဖစ္တယ္” ဟု ဘီအဲန္အိုင္ အဖြဲ႔ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး အရာရွိ နန္းေဖာ့ေဂ က ေျပာသည္ […]

Deciphering Myanmar’s Peace Process: A Reference Guide

The new nominally civilian government is making serious efforts to achieve peace in Myanmar after more than 60 years of civil war. Peace is critical for ending human suffering and achieving stability; a precondition for overcoming poverty, ensuring long term development and protecting