By Lawi Weng/The Irrawaddy | November 8, 2017 The New Mon State Party (NMSP) has an isolated armed group in the southern part on the country in Mon State. The group has not signed the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) [...]
Burma News International (BNI) / Network Media Group (NMG) | October 25, 2017 Ethnic negotiators say headway has been made in their latest peace talks, with agreements reached on all but one of the eight preconditions before they will [...]
By Min Thuta/Mon News Agency | October 17, 2017 An ethnic leader is arguing that negotiations over political power sharing should take precedence over ceasefires in the current peace process. Following the October 15 feting of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | 27 September 2017 CHIANG MAI, Thailand – Aiming to consolidate their positions on common policies, around 100 politicians, ethnic armed group leaders and civil society members have joined a stakeholders’ consultation hosted by the [...]
By Min Aung Htoo Nai / Mon News Agency (MNA) / Burma News International (BNI) | August 31, 2017 Two years after the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement was signed in October 2015, the country’s peace process has only become more [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | August 28, 2017 Myanmar’s Peace Process: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, Borderland Economies, Service Delivery, and other Post-Panglong Concerns (Part I) Editor’s Note: The following is the first part of a three part series to be featured [...]
By Yin Chai / Mon News Agency (MNA) | August 25, 2017 An ethnic armed group has set a three-month clock on deciding whether or not to sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement, according to an official. The New Mon [...]
United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | August 20, 2017 The UNFC’s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) and the government’s Peace Commission (PC) held their sixth round of talks at the National Reconciliation and Peace Center office in Yangon on [...]
By Sai Aw / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | August 21, 2017 The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) has said that it has decided to withdraw from the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) ethnic alliance. [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | August 14, 2017 Again, the official sixth meeting between the United Nationalities Federal Council’s (UNFC) Delegation for Political Dialogue (DPN) and the government’s Peace Commission (PC) held from [...]