Danish Institute For International Studies
Peace and Conflict studies
Popular conceptions of Buddhism in Myanmar are largely based on religious practices of the ethnic Bamar majority. Drawing on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in south-east Myanmar, this paper examines the multiplicity of Buddhist... more
After decades of ethno-national conflict, military rule and economic stagnation, Karen people in south-eastern Myanmar are experiencing momentous social and cultural change. Some of the most significant of these changes affect young... more
People’s understandings of themselves and the future always contain a dimension of hope. This paper seeks to theorise how young Karen people perceive and imagine their futures but also to unravel the potentialities of what is made... more
Domains of ethics and morality are deeply embedded in a complex array of norms, values, historical experiences and social institutions. In discussing the recent interest in these subjects, Sherry Ortner calls for anthropologists to... more
Within anthropological scholarship studies on the Karen have for many years been defined by the contrasting tautology between lowland and highland peoples, and indeed the ‘everyday forms of resistance’ at the heart of local lifestyles and... more
After decades of ethno-national conflict, military rule and economic stagnation, Karen people in south-eastern Myanmar are experiencing momentous social, political and cultural change. My thesis contends with questions of morality and... more
This report provides an in-depth understanding of customary land dispute resolution in Kayin State, Eastern Bago Region and Shan State and its interaction with the formal statutory Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar... more