Part 1: Conflicting Histories 1. Shifting Identities [Pre-colonial and Colonial Burma] 2. State and Society, Grievance and Greed, Ethnicity and Insurgency [World War, Independence and Civil War] Part 2: Armed Conflict Since 1988 3. Enemies and Allies on the Thailand Border [Insurgency and Exile] 4. The Costs of Conflict [Humanitarian Impacts and Responses: Refugees and the Internally Displaced, and International Agendas] Part 3: State, Ceasefires and Civil Society 5. The SPDC and the Ceasefire Movement [Militarisation and Governance] 6. Civil Society and Social Change [Contested Domains] 7. Re-Imagining Communities [Development and Democracy]
Biography
Ashley South is an independent analyst, specialising in politics and humanitarian issues in Burma and South-East Asia. He has published extensively, and undertaken various consultancies for the UN and other organisations. He is the author of Mon Nationalism and Civil War in Burma: The Golden Sheldrake (Routledge 2003).
'This book is essential contemporary reading for an academic, aid worker or United Nations official attempting to understand Myanmar's seemingly impossible challenges' - David Scott Mathieson, Contemporary Southeast Asia, April 2009
