Operation 1027 Second Phase in Myanmar: What’s New, What’s Next?
MYANMAR STUDIES PROGRAMME
About the Webinar
Please join the Myanmar Studies Programme at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute for a conversation with analysts and experts on the aftermath of the second phase of Operation 1027 in late June 2024 in Myanmar’s northern Shan State. The discussion will consider the implications for the ongoing conflict in Myanmar in the context of Naypyidaw’s receding administrative reach in several parts of the country, China’s conception of its interests in Myanmar, the aspirations, alliances, and actions of various resistance forces and ethnic armed organisations in Myanmar, and the feasibility of the State Administration Council regime’s stated aim to convene elections.
About the Speakers
Amara Thiha is a doctoral researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He has over eight years of experience in peace and security dialogue, ceasefire and conflict management, and foreign policy/public diplomacy matters related to Myanmar. Amara was involved in the negotiations for the 2015 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement through its signing. His past research affiliations include the Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security and the Stimson Center.
Yun Sun is a Senior Fellow, Co-Director of the East Asia Program, and Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center. She leads the Stimson Center’s Myanmar project. Before joining Stimson, Yun Sun worked on China’s national security decision-making processes as a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and on China’s foreign policy as a China Analyst for the International Crisis Group.
Kyaw Yin Hlaing (Discussant) is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Myanmar Studies Programme at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and a visiting scholar in Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program. Dr Kyaw has taught at the City University of Hong Kong and the National University of Singapore. A former member of the National Economic and Social Council, and a former director of the political dialogue programme at the Myanmar Peace Center from 2012 to 2015, Dr. Kyaw founded the Center for Diversity and National Harmony in 2014. He is currently researching what has gone wrong with Myanmar’s democratic transition.
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