Around 162,000 people, predominantly ethnic Karen, remain internally displaced in southeast Myanmar due to armed conflict between Myanmar’s army (Tatmadaw) and the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), one of the longest ongoing ethnic conflicts in the world. Violent...
JDC Literature Review
Sittwe Camp Profiling Report
This report analyses the displacement situation in and around Sittwe Township, the capital of Rakhine State in Myanmar, where ethnic violence has displaced more than 121,000 people since 2012. The profiling exercise, initiated in 2016, covered four population groups...
The Importance of Access and Accreditation: Learning from the Thailand–Myanmar Border
A large population of refugees and migrants from Myanmar has settled around Mae Sot in western Thailand; in the 1990s refugee teachers established informal schools called Migrant Learning Centres (MLCs). MLCs are not accredited, do not receive government funding, and...
A Vision for Restitution in Myanmar
The authors advocate for a comprehensive HLP restitution program in Myanmar that establishes a clear and accessible remedy for past and present land grabbing and displacement and that creates a framework for peace between Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs), government...