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သူခိုးဓါးရိုးကမ်း၊ ပြင်ညာရှင်လုပ်စား ရောဂါ | The Cancerous Roles of Experts in Myanmar’s International State Crimes

ဂျီနိုဆိုက်ကျူးလွန်နေတဲ့ တရားမဝင် စစ်အာဏာရှင်ကို မြန်မာနဲ့ နိုင်ငံခြားသား ပညာရှင်တွေက ဘာကြောင့် သူတို့ပညာတွေ သုံးပြီး ကူညီနေတာလဲ။

/ January 27, 2022

Should the International Court of Justice allow the Illegitimate and Universally Unpopular Military Regime to act as State Actor in the Gambia vs Myanmar?

International Holocaust Remembrance Day special event in memory of the victim of Nazi Genocide. Thursday 27th January 2022.

/ January 26, 2022

An Islamic Perspective on the Sacred Balance of Humanity, Animals and Nature: An Overview of “Ecolibrium”

"Ecolibrium: The Sacred Balance in Islam" is a book that focuses on the plight of humanity, animals and nature. It seeks to address the causes of ecological, environmental and developmental degradation utilizing three groups of main sources: empirical evidence from nature and history, the Quran and authentic Hadith, and logical inferences.

/ January 22, 2022

Warnings from the Balkans, again! Denials of Bosnian Genocide, Prospects for Bosnia’s Disintegration and Great Powers in a Small Playground

The FORSEA Dialogue on Decolonizing Minds, Democratizing Knowledge Series welcomes Distinguished Guest, Demir Mahmutćehajic, a veteran leading activist in the civil rights movement DOSTA! or Enough! in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a co-founder of UK's Islamic Human Rights Commission.

/ January 19, 2022

The Destruction of Rohingya Identity and History: Myanmar’s Continuing Genocide, Colonial Knowledge and Burma Studies

This week FORSEA is launching a new dialogue series “Decolonizing Minds and Democratising Knowledge”. Our inaugural episode is on the destruction of Rohingya identity and history by Myanmar state (the national military) and non-state actors (a local militia and its local community), the process of which involves perpetrating groups, inter alia, using heavily British colonial era records such as censuses designed and taken for colonial administrative purposes.

/ January 12, 2022

Anthropology has cheated on me

In this poem, Chu May Paing, a radical Burmese feminist thinker and student of neo-imperialist White Academy and its modes of operation, confronts her chosen field of cultural anthropology.

/ January 3, 2022

Experts in Myanmar Affairs: Usurping Local Voices and Doing Harm

FORSEA is hosting an all-Burmese dialogue – in Burmese and English languages – with critical intellectuals and activists whose knowledge is grounded in their grassroots experiences. The speakers are acutely aware of the fact that as the wretched of Myanmar, they are fighting wars on multiple fronts – against the neo-imperialist thought, space and system where local knowledge is typically relegated to second class.

/ December 22, 2021

The Panda has Claws too: Why We Must Get a Grip on what the Chinese Communist Party/CCP Really Is

This week FORSEA is hosting an indepth dialogue with a distinguished researcher, journalist Didi Kirsten Tatlow on the crucial need to understand and appreciate fully the nature of the Chinese Communist Party or CCP and the profound consequences of its rise to the commanding heights of global affairs.

/ December 15, 2021

Neither the United States nor the Rest of the West Walk their Talk of Democracy or Human Rights

Maung Zarni argues that neither the United States nor the rest of the west walk their talk of democracy or human rights, unless doing so suits their agenda (s), and they might not be the reliable allies in the freedom struggles, offering his own native Myanmar as an Exhibit A of the textbook hypocrisy of these liberal democratic regimes.

/ December 14, 2021

After Afghanistan, how credible is Joe Biden’s talk of support for democracy and opposition against authoritarianism around the world?

Myanmar under the coup regime has been in a Zero Sum popular armed revolution, yet the Biden White House has offered Myanmar's human rights defenders and pro-democracy revolution nothing more than empty statements. This is discussed on the next FORSEA Dialogue on Democratic Struggles in Asia.

/ December 7, 2021