{"id":262936,"date":"2024-05-27T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=262936"},"modified":"2024-05-24T06:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T05:42:29","slug":"myanmar-probability-of-return-to-peace-and-restoration-of-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/myanmar-probability-of-return-to-peace-and-restoration-of-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: Probability of Return to Peace and Restoration of Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"info-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-info-text\"><strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string bold\" dir=\"auto\">23 May 2024<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">Maung Zarni, Myanmar peace activist and 2024 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, talks about peace and human rights.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eyes on Myanmar: Probability for the Return to Peace and the Restoration on Hunman rights\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1cYT86aTwfg?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center \u2013 Cambodia.\u00a0Zarni s the co-founder of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forsea.co\/\" >FORSEA<\/a><em>, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for <\/em>Free Rohingya Coalition,<em> and an adviser to the <\/em>European Centre for the Study of Extremism<em>, Cambridge<strong>. <\/strong>Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the &#8220;Cultivation of Harmony&#8221; award from the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the <\/em>New York Times, The Guardian <em>and<\/em> the Times<em>. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are <\/em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas<em> (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), <\/em>An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide<em>, (Middle East Institute, American University), and <\/em>Myanmar\u2019s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims<em> (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, <\/em>Essays on Myanmar Genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 May 2024 &#8211; Maung Zarni, Myanmar peace activist and 2024 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, talks about peace and human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[240,526,865,1417,527],"class_list":["post-262936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-asia","tag-burma-myanmar","tag-genocide","tag-maung-zarni","tag-rohingya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262939,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262936\/revisions\/262939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}