Myanmar Policy Forum 2025 - Armed resistance and rebel governance

Myanmar Policy Forum 2025 - Armed resistance and rebel governance

The inaugural Myanmar Policy Forum will showcase ground-breaking new research on Myanmar’s armed resistance and rebel governance and discuss how the international community can best respond to the deepening political and humanitarian crisis in this geostrategically important mainland Southeast Asian country, which now ranks among the most dangerous in the world for civilians.

The Forum features presentations and panels by distinguished researchers from around the region and the world.  

Preliminary agenda

Friday 4 April 2025

9.00-9.15am: Opening remarks

9.15-9.30am: Myanmar’s post-coup crisis in numbers

• Su Mon Thant, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED)

9.15-9.30am: Keynote address - Tracking Myanmar’s civil war: What to expect in 2025? 

• Morgan Michaels, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

10.30-11.00am: The junta’s elections: Do they matter?

• Michael Lidauer, independent elections expert

11.00-11.30am: The Federal Democracy Charter: Viable pathway to peace?

• Michael Breen and Soe Htet, University of Melbourne

11.30-11.45am:  Coffee break

11.45am-1.15pm: Panel on rebel governance

• Su Mon Thazin Aung, Myanmar Studies Programme, ISEAS–Yusuf Ishak Institute, Singapore
• Zaw Tuseng, Myanmar Policy Institute
• Tony Neil, London School of Economics
• James Davies, independent analyst

1.15-2pm:  Lunch

The Forum is hosted by the Myanmar Research Centre at the Australian National University, in collaboration with the University of New South Wales (Canberra) and the University of Melbourne.

The ANU Myanmar Research Centre is grateful to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government for their generous support in sponsoring this event.
 

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