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Event

20th August 2020

Aid in Conflict-Affected Borderlands: The Rohingya Crisis in...

Jessica Olney, Manzoor Hasan
The session provides insights into the needs of refugees, their coping strategies, family ties abroad, and the adequacy and limitations of the current...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Bangladesh Migration Conflict Response Borderlands

Podcast

30th September 2020

The Crisis and the Cracks—Pakistan’s Covid-19 Experience at ...

Azeema Cheema
Complex crises tend to expose our worst faults and bare our best-kept biases. They also turn old inequalities into urgent problems, as crisis governan...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Coronavirus

Article

22nd September 2020

Brothers Torn Apart: As TNLA Grows Stronger, Tensions Rise i...

Lawi Weng
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army and Kachin Independence Army have fought side by side for decades, but recent abuses against civilians underscore ...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Governance Borderlands

Research report

9th September 2020

Navigating the Margins: Family, Mobility and Livelihoods Amo...

Jessica Olney, Razaun Nahid Mercy, Kawsher Ahamed, Muhammad Badiuzzaman
This paper describes the ways that individuals and families living in refugee camps in Bangladesh cope with hardship and displacement.
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Bangladesh Transnational Flows Migration Conflict Economies Borderlands

Article

7th September 2020

The Scrap Over Loikaw’s Industrial Zone

The Kayah State government’s fast-tracking of a Chinese company’s proposal to invest tens of millions of dollars in a forgotten industrial zone in the...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

Video

2nd September 2020

COVID and Conflict in Myanmar’s Borderlands: A View from the...

The Covid-19 crisis has once again focused attention on political fragmentation in Myanmar, especially along ethnic divides.
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Governance Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics

Article

11th August 2020

‘At Least the Illegal Routes are Safe’: Cattle Smuggling Mak...

Kyaw Lin Htoon
The government’s experiment with live cattle exports upset the political economy in northern Shan State, where armed groups are heavily involved in th...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Transnational Flows Conflict Economies Borderlands

Article

27th July 2020

Desperate and Debt-ridden, Mon Migrants Risk Journey Back to...

Lawi Weng
A lack of opportunities in Mon State has turned some migrants to smugglers to cross back into Thailand illegally.
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Thailand South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Transnational Flows Organised Crime Conflict Economies Borderlands

Article

23rd July 2020

The Kokang Casino Dream

Local politicians in a border region known for its frequent outbreaks of violence hope to transform it into the “next Macau”, but will have to overcom...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

Article

17th June 2020

The Government and Armed Groups Enforce a New Border Regime

The safe return of migrant workers from Thailand amid the pandemic has required an unprecedented degree of cooperation between the government and arme...
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Thailand South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Migration Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Briefing paper

7th May 2020

Beyond Relief: Securing Livelihoods and Agency for Rohingya ...

An exploration of mobility, hardship, and livelihoods among refugee families living in the camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Malaysia Bangladesh Transnational Flows Migration Conflict Economies Borderlands

Blog

15th April 2020

Women for Peace in the “Land of Promise”

Wahida A. Abdullah,
Mindanao, despite its legacy as a strife-ridden region, is still known to us as the “Land of Promise.”
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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

14th April 2020

Peace and the Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on Conflict i...

Adam Burke
Disasters and crises—floods, earthquakes, wars, and of course pandemics—shine an unforgiving light on society’s problems and tensions. As the Covid-19...
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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Article

10th April 2020

How the Kayin BGF’s Business Interests Put Myanmar at Risk o...

As the coronavirus spread around the world from China in February, the Kayin State Border Guard Force smuggled into Myanmar thousands of Chinese worke...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Transnational Flows Borderlands

Blog

5th February 2020

Mapping the Rohingya Diaspora: Lessons From the Camps 

Kawsher Ahamed, Rezaun Nahid Mercy
A violent campaign of persecution has driven an exodus of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority from the northern state of Rakhine into neighboring count...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Migration Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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