The political implications of aid distribution on the Thai-Myanmar border Elena Harris-Bauer, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) In Myanmar’s Karen State, over 200,000 […]
The political implications of aid distribution on the Thai-Myanmar border Elena Harris-Bauer, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) In Myanmar’s Karen State, over 200,000 […]
Background and introduction to the winter school The MyClimate winter school is designed to enhance the research capacity of young emerging scholars from Myanmar and Thailand and to equip them […]
RCSD has extended the call for abstracts for the Symposium: One Year of Thailand’s Right-to-work Policy for Myanmar Refugees until Friday, 9 October. We invite researchers with on-going or near-completed […]
The call for abstracts for the Symposium on Coffee Landscapes of the Southeast Asian Region has been extended to 10 October 2026. As before, we invite scholars, coffee growers and […]
RCSD invites abstract submission for the symposium: “Is right-to-work working? One year of Thailand’s right-to-work policy for Myanmar refugees” to be held on 28 October 2026 at the Faculty of […]
Student Diplacement in Contemporary Myanmar Following Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, thousands of university students joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), abandoning their studies and, in many cases, their homes. Some […]
When Myanmar’s military seized power in 2021, the state did not simply change hands. In many places it lost its grip on the ordinary work of public life. Doctors, reporters, […]
What happens when the state becomes actively hostile or collapses entirely? In large swathes of post-coup Myanmar, conflict has transformed many previously peaceful areas into war zones where everyday life […]
Three new research-based publications are now available from RCSD, focused on a range of issues: from local governance in post-coup Myanmar; the lives of CDM students in exile both internal […]
The Committee of the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies is pleased to announce that ICBMS 5 will be held at Chiang Mai University from 14 to 16 August 2026. Myanmar […]