Pyidaungsu Institute
for peace and dialogue
This Resource Kit is the compilation of lecture papers and notes, power point slides and translated academic papers related to constitution designing and constitutional knowledge.
This 3rd edition of "From Panglong Spirit to Panglong Promise" paper is the team-work product of the author Khau Marko Ban and research team from PI. This edition was reviewed and revived by PI's researchers for a better referencing and a more systematic research approach with the advices and sugges...
This paper studies the way of thinking of EAOs by using the Worldview from social science perspective. As revolution is carried out as a group or organization, the paper also employs Organizational Change theory in analyzing the possible and potential transition of EAOs in the future.
The paper studies and analyses the history of the beginning and transformation of the Upper House, the history of Myanmar’s parliament, the debate on unitary or federal and the structure and function of Myanmar’s Upper House and the political situation at present and the representation and competenc...
The purpose of this paper is to argue that diversity is not the cause of ethnic conflicts and divisions in Myanmar but rather the differential treatment on diversity is the problem creating all those ethnic conflicts and divisions. This paper is written in four parts. The question of who and what is...
Following the landslide victory in the 2015 polls, the National League for Democracy (NLD) dubbed the Union Peace Conference from the previous government to the “Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong. In response to this, the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) published this paper aiming tha...
This report discusses the organizational structure and nature, independence and competency of local governance in brief and detail. Furthermore, the formation of local governance and limitations, the relationship between local governance and democracy and public participation and inclusion in local ...
This paper highlights that Myanmar has lagged behind to carry out constructive land reforms and changes that are coherent to a modern governance system by focusing the discussions on existing land related laws, by laws, rules and regulations and the current land-related problems and issues.
The uniqueness of this report is that; (1) it collected and complied all the ceasefire agreements that were signed since 2011(bilateral, state /union level, NCA etc.), (2) it includes the reviews and analysis of the whole peace process and the agreements signed after 2011. The report is structure in...
This report collected and compiled the original copies of five of the Myanmar’s constitutions that were made comparative analysis in “The Constitution of Myanmar Part (1). The constitutions of Myanmar mentioned in this report are actually the two constitutions (1947 and 1974) that were legally pract...
In order to support the political dialogues and negotiations which are based on different beliefs and perceptions about the historical events, this report makes comparative studies of Myanmar constitutions (1947/1974/2018), the draft constitution of Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League (AFPFL) led b...
The participation and collaboration of ethnic nationalities and the people is vital in the building and establishing of federal union of Myanmar. The main objective of the Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong is to amend the constitution in accordance with federal principles resulting from...
It is very important for political parties and candidates to understand about the targeted constituencies, the day to day problems facing by the people there and how strong is the support for the party and popular and influential the candidate are in the target constituencies before they compete in ...
Myanmar has been making changes and leading to the path to building a federal union that it’s ethnic nationalities has been asking for many decades. While studying democratic and federal principles and learning about the basics for federalism, it is very important to understand the terms and vocabul...
In federal states, the role of local governments, also known as the third-tier governments, is very important since it being the closet to the public. While Myanmar is heading to establishing a union based on democratic and federal principles and the third-tire government still very weak or non-exis...
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