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: 
 

• Tracking the civil war: What to expect in 2025? (Keynote of the Forum)
  Morgan Michaels, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
• Myanmar’s post-coup crisis in numbers
  Su Mon Thant, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED)
• The upcoming elections: Do they matter?
  Michael Lidauer, independent researcher
• The Federal Democracy Charter: Viable pathway to peace?
  Michael Breen and Soe Htet, University of Melbourne
• Panel on rebel governance
  Zaw Tuseng, Myanmar Policy Institute; Su Mon Thazin Aung, Visiting Fellow, Myanmar Studies Programme, ISEAS–Yusuf Ishak Institute, Singapore; James Davies, independent analyst; and Tony Neil, London School of Economics

More details about the Forum will be released in the coming weeks on the ANU Myanmar Research Centre's website. 

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.

Sponsor
 

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.

Photo credit: Wathone

VENUE

The Forum will be held in hybrid mode, i.e. in-person on the ANU Campus, and live-streamed on zoom.

• IN-PERSON: Lecture Theatre 1 (HB1), Hedley Bull Building, 130 Garran Road, ANU.
• ONLINE: Live-streamed via Zoom, please note no Q&A from the online audience, we apologise for this inconvenience.

Please select the relevant ticket, in-person or online, according to your preferred attendance mode.