{"id":263246,"date":"2024-06-03T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=263246"},"modified":"2024-05-29T04:11:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T03:11:57","slug":"maung-zarni-whats-next-for-myanmar-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/06\/maung-zarni-whats-next-for-myanmar-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Maung Zarni: What\u2019s Next for Myanmar Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>27 May 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEverything I have learned as a radical, a peace and rights activist, and a scholar on my country&#8217;s affairs.\u00a0What is wrong with Burma\/Myanmar and her people, incapable of building a peaceful and stable human community for the last nearly 80 years?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The host is a Thai journalist and editor of <em>The Nation<\/em> in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What\u2019s Next for Myanmar Crisis? Suthichai live 27-5-2567\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaG7rTtI5Ks?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><br \/>\n<em>A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, 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 is 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 May 2024 &#8211; \u201cEverything I have learned as a radical, a peace and rights activist, and a scholar on my country&#8217;s affairs.\u00a0What is wrong with Burma\/Myanmar and her people, incapable of building a peaceful and stable human community for the last nearly 80 years?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[756,526,1778,1044,865,1643,3214,1417,92],"class_list":["post-263246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-asian-pacific-history","tag-burma-myanmar","tag-conflict-analysis","tag-east-asia","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-genocide-studies","tag-maung-zarni","tag-violent-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263246","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=263246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263252,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263246\/revisions\/263252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}