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Project Description

This research will analyze how Myanmar’s February 2021 military coup transformed the nature of the country’s ongoing civil war and affected the existing level of intercommunal and state-societal conflict and violence.

It emphasizes the state’s varying relationships with regional and local governing authorities as well as the relationship between local governing authorities and local populations as a key to understanding how and why the nature and degree of violence changes and varies across place and time.

It will particularly focus on the role of local village and urban ward administrators, who occupy the lowest rung of the Myanmar state’s administrative ladder, to provide explanations for urban wards or villages that remain relatively peaceful in hostile regions.

This project addresses the goals and mission of the International Peace Research Association Foundation by providing a more comprehensive understanding of the root causes and evolving nature of viol