Myanmar’s Humanitarian Needs and Challenges in 2024

MYANMAR STUDIES PROGRAMME

About the Webinar

ISEAS Myanmar Studies Programme invites two expert researchers to discuss Myanmar’s humanitarian needs and challenges, including the challenges of addressing those needs, in the post-2021 coup environment. Various communities in post-coup Myanmar have different coping strategies (and needs) in navigating the changing political, administrative, and socio-economic situation. At the same time, conflict in Myanmar has continued to escalate in several parts of the country, causing more displacement (including migration across borders) and attendant humanitarian challenges. The Myanmar military’s enforcement of the conscription law and recent weather events have added to these challenges. Efforts and approaches by international and regional actors have been unable to effectively address Myanmar’s humanitarian dilemmas. The complex realities of Myanmar’s ongoing conflict require conversations on multiple-track humanitarian assistance approaches, and the need to consider the longer-term impact of current responses.

About the Speakers

Dr Su Mon Thazin Aung is a Visiting Fellow with the Myanmar Studies Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. She was previously an Associate Fellow with the programme. Before joining ISEAS, she was Director of Capacity-Building at the Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar), an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental think tank in Myanmar.

Dr Surachanee Sriyai is a Visiting Fellow with the Media, Technology and Society Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. She is also the interim director of the Center for Sustainable Humanitarian Action with Displaced Ethnic Communities (SHADE) under the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Chiang Mai University.

Registration

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