The Worlds most fractured CivilWar ,Myanmar
Five years after launching a brutal military coup, General Min Aung Hlaing has officially traded his uniform for a civilian suit, appointing himself the “President” of Myanmar. But behind the propaganda, the junta is losing control. In this video, we pull back the curtain on the world’s most fractured civil war and examine the catastrophic human cost, the ongoing Rohingya genocide, and the geopolitical game at play.
0:00 Introduction
2:38 Short history of the conflict
5:55 Revolution
8:24 Civil war
11:04 Sham election
14:09 Rohingya genocide
17:17 Geopolitics of the conflict
19:54 Human cost
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Why Myanmar has no future by Lee Kuan Yew
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Does history shape destiny
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On 20 October 2020, United Nations University hosted “Does History Shape Destiny? The Case of Myanmar”, a virtual conversation with Dr Thant Myint-U, Chairman of U Thant House and the Yangon Heritage Trust.
Myanmar has existed throughout its history in a variety of political configurations, with each contributing to the nature of the country we know today. The architecturally and culturally renowned Pagan Kingdom that began over a millennium ago established the Bamar ethnic group as the region’s dominant people. The Toungoo Empire in the 16th Century, the largest ever South-East Asia witnessed, absorbed many peripheral lands and their ethnically diverse inhabitants. Colonial rule three centuries later further exacerbated ethnic differences within, albeit under the British and Anglo-Burmese dominance. The 1947 Panglong Agreement then enabled the establishment of the independent Union of Burma, but fissures quickly surfaced, igniting internal conflict along political and ethnic lines that continue into the modern-day, culminating with the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya recently.
Is history truly inescapable? Do the Myanmar elections in November, the second openly contested elections in almost three decades, present a glimmer of hope? What about the 21st Century Panglong Conferences — the national reconciliation and peace process whose fourth and most recent iteration took place in August?
Dr Thant Myint-U joined UNU Rector David M. Malone to discuss the future of Myanmar and to explore how destiny may escape history’s grievances.
https://youtu.be/WT9fG3kHbao?si=jSMFKWy6TpZluEIf
Where is Myanmar advancing toward in 21st century
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The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint Oo
9/Jan/ 2020
Join historian, former diplomat and Presidential advisor Thant Myint-U for an insider’s diagnosis of recent and ongoing challenges to Burma’s fragile democracy. Warning of the possible collapse of this nation of 55 million while suggesting a fresh agenda for change, he examines issues including economic inequality, interracial violence and climate change, and asks whether democracy and an economy that genuinely serves all its people are possible in Burma. Essential viewing for followers of regional politics, this talk will be moderated by Dr. Ian Holliday, Vice President of Hong Kong University.
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Myanmar :Does history shape destiny
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On 20 October 2020, United Nations University hosted “Does History Shape Destiny? The Case of Myanmar”, a virtual conversation with Dr Thant Myint-U, Chairman of U Thant House and the Yangon Heritage Trust.
Myanmar has existed throughout its history in a variety of political configurations, with each contributing to the nature of the country we know today. The architecturally and culturally renowned Pagan Kingdom that began over a millennium ago established the Bamar ethnic group as the region’s dominant people. The Toungoo Empire in the 16th Century, the largest ever South-East Asia witnessed, absorbed many peripheral lands and their ethnically diverse inhabitants. Colonial rule three centuries later further exacerbated ethnic differences within, albeit under the British and Anglo-Burmese dominance. The 1947 Panglong Agreement then enabled the establishment of the independent Union of Burma, but fissures quickly surfaced, igniting internal conflict along political and ethnic lines that continue into the modern-day, culminating with the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya recently.
Is history truly inescapable? Do the Myanmar elections in November, the second openly contested elections in almost three decades, present a glimmer of hope? What about the 21st Century Panglong Conferences — the national reconciliation and peace process whose fourth and most recent iteration took place in August?
Dr Thant Myint-U joined UNU Rector David M. Malone to discuss the future of Myanmar and to explore how destiny may escape history’s grievances.
https://youtu.be/WT9fG3kHbao?si=H_GKrCyl9b4UMl5y
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Cambodia 2017 – East,West and the Fusion of ideas
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Political and economic developments in the West are causing many to question established models of governance. Support for free-market capitalism is under strain as inequality rises and ever larger segments of society see their incomes stagnate. Belief in globalization is giving way to populism, nationalism and mercantilist tendencies. Frustration with multilateralism is fostering a preference for bilateral international relations. And democratic politics faces accusations of promoting short-termism, irresponsible government and disharmony. What alternative ideas does Asia have to address these concerns?
Debbie Aung Din Taylor, Co-Founder, Proximity Designs, Myanmar; Social Entrepreneur
Victor L. L. Chu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong SAR; Co-Chair, International Business Council
Yoshito Hori, President, GLOBIS University; Managing Partner, GLOBIS Capital Partners; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, GLOBIS, Japan
Wolfgang Jamann, Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer, Care International, Geneva; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN
Moderated by
Thant Myint-U, Founder and Chairman, Yangon Heritage Trust, Myanmar
https://youtu.be/k4QfoY95BY8?si=Yxm1cCiL28MsfxmT
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Thant Myint Oo on U Thant’s legacy and future of United Nation
September 17, 2025 — In this episode of Asia Inside Out, Asia Society Policy Institute’s Managing Director, Rorry Daniels, speaks with historian and author Thant Myint-U, grandson of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, about his latest book, “Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations, and the Untold Story of the 1960s”. They explore U Thant’s legacy as the first non-Western Secretary General of the UN, focusing on his efforts to amplify the voices of newly decolonized nations and mediate Cold War tensions. Thant Myint-U reflects on the challenges that his grandfather faced in shaping a more equitable international system, which of these challenges persist, and how today’s leaders can improve the future of multilateral diplomacy and global governance. (44 min., 34 sec.)
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What happened to Myanmar ?
NEW YORK, November 18, 2019 — Thant Myint-U, author of the new book ‘The Hidden History of Burma’, discusses his native Myanmar with Asia Society Executive Vice President Tom Nagorski. (1 hr., 18 min.)
https://youtu.be/GUWALwR_f7s?si=b92DtcuxJzwKFfji
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Burma and New Crossroad of Asia by Than Myint Oo
The Paulson Institute hosts Thant Myint-U, member of the Myanmar National Economic and Social Advisory Council, Special Advisor to the Myanmar Peace Centre, and Chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust, for a talk in its Contemporary China Speakers Series at the University of Chicago.
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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century featuring Dr. Thant Myint-U, as part of the CSIS Banyan Tree Leadership Forum
The CSIS Southeast Asia Program is pleased to present The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century featuring Dr. Thant Myint-U, as part of the CSIS Banyan Tree Leadership Forum. Dr. Thant Myint-U will offer an alternative story of Burma in the 21st century, set within the deeper context of colonialism and anti-colonialism as well as the the more recent past of war, dictatorship, and isolation. He will examine the evolution of thinking on issues of race and identity as well as the evolution of the country’s peculiar political economy, tied intimately since the early 1990s to the anarchic borderlands between Burma and China. He will suggest that Burma, rather than being a simple morality tale between dictators and democrats has become instead a stage for many of the world’s contemporary challenges, from the impact of social media and shifting balances in global power, to soaring inequality, climate change and the rise of ethno-nationalism.
Dr. Thant Myint-U is an award-winning writer, historian, conservationist, and a former advisor to the president of Myanmar. He has served on three United Nations peacekeeping operations, in Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia, and as the head of policy planning under Kofi Annan at the UN Secretariat in New York. The author of four books on Burmese and Asian history, he was educated at Harvard and Cambridge and taught history for several years as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Since 2007 he has been involved in numerous reform efforts in Burma. He is the founder and chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust, the Chairman of U Thant House, and a Founding Partner of the Ava Advisory Group.
Copies of The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century will be available for purchase at the event.
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The Siam Society Lecture : The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint Oo ( 9 January 2020 ).
The Siam Society Lecture 1:16:33 hour
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
A talk by Dr Thant Myint-U
Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. World leaders such as Barack Obama ushered in waves of international support. Progress seemed inevitable.
As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U saw the cracks forming. In this insider’s diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, he dissects how a singularly predatory economic system, fast-rising inequality, disintegrating state institutions, the impact of new social media, the rise of China next door, climate change, and deep-seated feelings around race, religion, and national identity all came together to challenge the incipient democracy. Interracial violence soared and a horrific exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fixed international attention. Thant Myint-U explains how and why this happened, and details an unsettling prognosis for the future.
Dr Thant Myint-U is an award-winning writer, historian, conservationist, and a former adviser to the President of Myanmar. He was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities and taught history from 1995–2000 as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has also served on three United Nations peacekeeping operations, in Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia, as well as at the UN Secretariat in New York, including as the head of policy planning in the Department of Political Affairs. Since 2007 he has been involved in numerous projects and initiatives related to reform in Myanmar. “The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century” is his fourth book.
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https://youtu.be/WrbkQdwi7-8?si=SdLCXuWuPEd_sq64
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Welcome to Conversations with TEDxYangon. In the first instalment of the series, we will be speaking to Dr Thant Myint-U, renowned historian and leading thinker.
We hope you will enjoy the upcoming hour of candid conversation that offers insight into the mind of this best-selling writer, historian, conservationist and a former advisor to the President of Myanmar.
TEDxYangon ရဲ့ Conversations ဆိုတဲ့အစီအစဥ်ကနေ ကြိုဆိုလိုက်ပါတယ်။ မကြာမီစတင်တော့မယ့် Conversations ရဲ့ ပထမဦးဆုံးအပိုင်းမှာ ပါဝင်ပြောကြားပေးမယ့်သူကတော့ သမိုင်းနဲ့ အတွေးအခေါ်ပညာရှင် ဒေါက်တာ ဦးသန့်မြင့်ဦး ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
စာရေးဆရာ၊ သမိုင်းပညာရှင်၊ အတွေးအခေါ်ပညာရှင်၊ အမွေအနှစ်များ ထိမ်းသိန်းစောင့်ရှောက်သူနဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသမ္မတအကြံပေးဟောင်း ဒေါက်တာဦးသန့်မြင့်ဦး နဲ့ တစ်နာရီကြာ ပွင့်ပွင့်လင်းလင်း ဆွေးနွေးသွားမယ့်အကြောင်းအရာတွေကို အားလုံးလည်း ကြိုက်နှစ်သက်ကြမယ်လို့ မျှော်လင့်ပါတယ်
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The Paulson Institute hosts Thant Myint-U, member of the Myanmar National Economic and Social Advisory Council, Special Advisor to the Myanmar Peace Centre, and Chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust, for a talk in its Contemporary China Speakers Series at the University of Chicago.
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What Happened to Myanmar
NEW YORK, November 18, 2019 — Thant Myint-U, author of the new book ‘The Hidden History of Burma’, discusses his native Myanmar with Asia Society Executive Vice President Tom Nagorski. (1 hr., 18 min.)
https://youtu.be/GUWALwR_f7s?si=GoFwWTG3Kg6O5GdH
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Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint Oo Lectures, Jaipur Literature Festival
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The Hidden History of Burma: Thant Myint-U & Suhasini Haidar
Thant Myint-U is the author of four books on Burmese and Asian history, most recently The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century. Educated at Harvard and Cambridge University, he taught British imperial history from 1995-2000 as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has also served on three United Nations peacekeeping operations. Since 2007, he has been involved in numerous reforms efforts in Myanmar, including as a member of the National Economic and Social Advisory Council, a special adviser to the government on the peace process, the founder and chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust and the chairman of U Thant House. He is the recipient of several honours, including the Padma Shri from the Government of India in 2018.
Suhasini Haidar is the Diplomatic and National Editor at The Hindu. She writes regularly on India’s foreign policy, has contributed to several books on the subject and is a public speaker on international affairs and journalism.
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Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.
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The Hidden History of Burma
Join historian, former diplomat and Presidential advisor Thant Myint-U for an insider’s diagnosis of recent and ongoing challenges to Burma’s fragile democracy. Warning of the possible collapse of this nation of 55 million while suggesting a fresh agenda for change, he examines issues including economic inequality, interracial violence and climate change, and asks whether democracy and an economy that genuinely serves all its people are possible in Burma. Essential viewing for followers of regional politics, this talk will be moderated by Dr. Ian Holliday, Vice President of Hong Kong University.
https://youtu.be/vff6uqNyFkE?si=V3HYh9ZANUxO4snD
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The Hidden History of Burma
Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century featuring Dr. Thant Myint-U, as part of the CSIS Banyan Tree Leadership Forum
https://www.youtube.com/live/4_EhKWaHThU?si=1VhMBScMaeqMAVhj
The CSIS Southeast Asia Program is pleased to present The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century featuring Dr. Thant Myint-U, as part of the CSIS Banyan Tree Leadership Forum. Dr. Thant Myint-U will offer an alternative story of Burma in the 21st century, set within the deeper context of colonialism and anti-colonialism as well as the the more recent past of war, dictatorship, and isolation. He will examine the evolution of thinking on issues of race and identity as well as the evolution of the country’s peculiar political economy, tied intimately since the early 1990s to the anarchic borderlands between Burma and China. He will suggest that Burma, rather than being a simple morality tale between dictators and democrats has become instead a stage for many of the world’s contemporary challenges, from the impact of social media and shifting balances in global power, to soaring inequality, climate change and the rise of ethno-nationalism.
Dr. Thant Myint-U is an award-winning writer, historian, conservationist, and a former advisor to the president of Myanmar. He has served on three United Nations peacekeeping operations, in Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia, and as the head of policy planning under Kofi Annan at the UN Secretariat in New York. The author of four books on Burmese and Asian history, he was educated at Harvard and Cambridge and taught history for several years as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Since 2007 he has been involved in numerous reform efforts in Burma. He is the founder and chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust, the Chairman of U Thant House, and a Founding Partner of the Ava Advisory Group.
Copies of The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century will be available for purchase at the event.
This event was made possible through general support to CSIS.
Photo: YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images
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Each year since 2003, the World Monuments Fund Paul Mellon Lecture has been presented in New York and London by leading scholars or specialists in the field of historic preservation. For the 2014 Paul Mellon Lecture, Dr. Thant Myint-U discussed the progress made to preserve one of the most spectacular early twentieth-century urban landscapes in Asia, and the challenges to come. Thant Myint-U is a historian and author, and the founder and chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust.
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Saving Yangon’s Historic City Centre February 2014
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Biography ဒေါက်တာသန့်မြင့်ဦး
မွေးဖွား၃၁ ဇန်နဝါရီ၊ ၁၉၆၆(အသက် ၆၀)
နယူးယောက်မြို့၊ အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုမိခင်ကျောင်းဟားဗတ် တက္ကသိုလ်
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Johns Hopkins University
ကိန်းဘရစ်ချ် တက္ကသိုလ်အလုပ်အကိုင်သမိုင်းပညာရှင်အိမ်ထောင်ဖက်(များ)Sofia BuschသားသမီးThurayn-Harriမိဘ(များ)ဒေါက်တာတင်မြင့်ဦး
ဒေါ်အေးအေးသန့်ဆွေမျိုးသားချင်းဦးသန့် (အဘိုး)
ခင်လဲ့မြင့်ဦး (အစ်မ)
A-thi Myint-U (sister)
Aye Myint Myint-U (sister)ရရှိသည့်ဆုများFukuoka Grand Prize
ပဒုမ္မာသီရိဆု
ဒေါက်တာသန့်မြင့်ဦး သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသား သမိုင်းပညာရှင် ဖြစ်ပြီး အင်္ဂလန်နိုင်ငံ ကမ်းဘရစ်ဂျ်တက္ကသိုလ်၊ ထရင်နတီကောလိပ်၏ ကောလိပ်အဖွဲ့ဝင်ဟောင်းနှင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ၏ အကြံပေးအဖွဲ့ဝင်ဟောင်း ဖြစ်သည့်အပြင်၊ ရန်ကုန်မြို့ပြအမွေအနှစ်ထိန်းသိမ်းစောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (YHT) ကို စတင်တည်ထောင်သူနှင့် ဥက္ကဋ္ဌလည်း ဖြစ်သည်။[၁]
သူသည် ၂၀၁၃ ခုနှစ်တွင် ကမ္ဘာကျော် Foreign Policy မဂ္ဂဇင်း၏ ကမ္ဘာ့ထိပ်တန်းတွေးခေါ်ရှင် ၁၀၀ စာရင်းတွင် ပါဝင်ပြီး Prospect မဂ္ဂဇင်း၏ ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ် ကမ္ဘာ့တွေးခေါ်ရှင် ၅၀ တွင်လည်း ဖော်ပြခံခဲ့ရသည်။ ကမ္ဘာ့ထိပ်တန်းတွေးခေါ်ရှင်များစာရင်းအတွက် ကမ္ဘာကျော် Prospect မဂ္ဂဇင်းက စစ်တမ်းကောက်ယူရာတွင်လည်း အဆင့် ၁၅ နေရာ ရရှိခဲ့သည်။[၂] ရောင်းအားအကောင်းဆုံးစာအုပ်များတွင် ပါဝင်ပြီး လူသိများထင်ရှားသည့် ခြေရာပျောက်မြစ် (The River of Lost Footsteps) နှင့် တရုတ်-အိန္ဒိယ ဆုံမှတ် (Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia) တို့အပါအဝင် စာအုပ်ပေါင်း (၄) အုပ်ကို ရေးသားပြုစုခဲ့သည်။
ငယ်စဉ်ဘဝ နှင့် ပညာရေး
အမေရိကန်နိုင်ငံ၊ နယူးယောက်မြို့တွင် မြန်မာမိဘနှစ်ပါးက ၁၉၆၆ခုနှစ် ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၃၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် မွေးဖွားခဲ့ပြီး မွေးချင်း (၄) ဦးအနက် တစ်ဦးတည်းသောသားဖြစ်သည်။ ကမ္ဘာ့ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အတွင်းရေးမှူးချုပ်ဟောင်း ဦးသန့်၏ မြေးဖြစ်ပြီး ငယ်စဉ်ကတည်းကပင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသားတစ်ဦးဖြစ်သည်။ အမေရိကန်နိုင်ငံ ဟားဗတ်တက္ကသိုလ်၊ The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies၊ ဂျွန်ဟော့ကင်းစ်တက္ကသိုလ်နှင့် အင်္ဂလန်နိုင်ငံ ကမ်းဘရစ်ဂျ်တက္ကသိုလ်တို့တွင် ပညာသင်ကြားခဲ့သည်။ ကမ်းဘရစ်ဂျ်တက္ကသိုလ်မှ သမိုင်း ဘာသာရပ် ဆိုင်ရာ ပါရဂူဘွဲ့ (၁၉၉၆ ခုနှစ်)၊ ဂျွန်ဟော့ကင်းစ်တက္ကသိုလ်မှ နိုင်ငံတကာဆက်ဆံရေးနှင့် စီးပွားရေးဘာသာရပ်ဆိုင်ရာ မဟာဘွဲ့နှင့် ဟားဗတ်တက္ကသိုလ်မှ အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးနှင့် စီးပွားရေးဘာသာရပ်ဆိုင်ရာ သိပ္ပံဘွဲ့ ရှိခဲ့သည်။
၁၉၉၄ မှ ၁၉၉၉ ခုနှစ်အထိ အင်္ဂလန်နိုင်ငံ ကမ်းဘရစ်ဂျ်တက္ကသိုလ်၊ ထရင်နတီကောလိပ်၏ ထရင်နတီကောလိပ်ဖဲလိုး အဖြစ်တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့ပြီး အာရှနှင့်ဗြိတိသျှအင်ပါယာသမိုင်းကို သင်ကြားပို့ချခဲ့သည်။ အမေရိကန်နိုင်ငံ စတန်းဖို့ဒ်တက္ကသိုလ်၊ ဘာကလေး ရှိ ကယ်လီဖိုးနီးယားတက္ကသိုလ်၊ ဂျွန်ဟော့ကင်းစ်၊ ကိုလံဘီယာ တက္ကသိုလ်၊ ယေး၊ ကမ်းဘရစ်ဂျ်၊ လန်ဒန်တက္ကသိုလ်၊ ချီကာဂိုတက္ကသိုလ်နှင့် ဩစတေးလျ အမျိုးသားတက္ကသိုလ် အစရှိသည့် တက္ကသိုလ်များတွင်လည်း ဟောပြောပို့ချခဲ့သည်။[၃]
အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကြောင်း
ကုလသမဂ္ဂ၏ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးထိန်းသိမ်းမှု စီမံချက်သုံးခုတွင် ပါဝင်ခဲ့သည်။ ၁၉၉၂ မှ ၁၉၉၃ ခုနှစ်အထိ ကမ္ဘာ့ကုလသမဂ္ဂ၏ ကမ္ဘောဒီးယားနိုင်ငံ အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းမှု ကျွမ်းကျင်ပညာရှင်အဖွဲ့ (The UN Transitional Authority) တွင် လူအခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ အရာရှိအဖြစ် ဖနွမ်းပင်မြို့ ၌ တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့သည်။ ၁၉၉၄ ခုနှစ်တွင် ယခင်ယူဂိုစလားဗီးယားနိုင်ငံ၊ ဆာရာဂျေဗိုအခြေစိုက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ ၏ အဓိကပြောရေးဆိုခွင့်ရှိသူအဖြစ်သော်လည်းကောင်း၊ ဘော့စနီးယားနှင့် ဟာဇီကိုဗီးနီးယားဒေသဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂကိုယ်စားလှယ်ရုံးတွင် နိုင်ငံရေးအကြံပေးအဖြစ်လည်းကောင်း တာဝန်ယူခဲ့သည်။[၄]
၂၀၀၀ ခုနှစ် တွင် အမေရိကန်နိုင်ငံ၊ နယူးယောက်မြို့ ရှိ ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထွေထွေအတွင်းရေးမှူးချုပ်ရုံးသို့ ပြောင်းရွေ့ခဲ့ပြီး လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှု ပူးပေါင်း ဆောင်ရွက်ရေးဌာန (The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)၌စတင်တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့ပြီးနောက် နိုင်ငံရေးရာဌာန (United Nations Department of Political Affairs) သို့ပြောင်းရွေ့ခဲ့သည်။ ၂၀၀၄ ခုနှစ်တွင် အဆိုပါဌာန၏ မူဝါဒစီမံကိန်းရေးဌာနအကြီးအကဲအဖြစ် ဆက်လက်တာဝန်ယူခဲ့သည်။
ထိုသို့ တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်စဉ်အတောအတွင်း ခြိမ်းခြောက်မှုများ၊ စိန်ခေါ်မှုများနှင့် အပြောင်းအလဲများအတွက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထွေထွေအတွင်းရေးမှူးချုပ်ဖွဲ့စည်းထားသော “ပိုမိုလုံခြုံသောကမ္ဘာ – ကျွန်ုပ်တို့အားလုံး မျှဝေယူရမည့် တာဝန်ဝတ္တရား” ကို ဖော်ဆောင်မည့် အဖွဲ့ (The Secretariat of the Secretary – General’s Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change which produced” A More Secure World: Our shared Responsibility” ၌ အဖွဲ့ ဝင်တစ်ဦးအဖြစ် ပါဝင်ခဲ့သည်။ ၂၀၀၅ ခုနှစ်ကုန်ပိုင်းနှင့် ၂၀၀၆ နှစ်ဦးပိုင်းကာလ၌ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးတည်ဆောက်မှုကော်မရှင်၊ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးတည်ဆောက်မှု ထောက်ပံ့ရေးရုံး၊ ကြားဝင် ညှိနှိုင်းမှုထောက်ပံ့ရေးဌာနအသစ်များဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်းနှင့် အခြားသော ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲရေးများဖော်ဆောင်ရန် အထွေထွေအတွင်းရေးမှူးဖွဲ့စည်းထားသည့် အမှုဆောင်ရုံးတွင်လည်း အဆင့်မြင့်အရာရှိအဖြစ် ခေတ္တတာဝန်ယူခဲ့သည်။
ရန်ကုန်မြို့ပြအမွေအနှစ်ထိန်းသိမ်းစောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (YHT) ကို စတင်တည်ထောင်သူဖြစ်ပြီး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအမျိုးသားစီးပွားရေးနှင့် လူမှုရေးအကြံပေးကောင်စီ၏ အဖွဲ့ဝင်ဟောင်းတစ်ဦးလည်းဖြစ်သည့်အပြင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးစင်တာ၏ အထူးအကြံပေးပုဂ္ဂိုလ်၊ မြန်မာဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုအဖွဲ့အစည်း၏ အဆင့်မြင့်သုတေသနဖဲလိုး၊ အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကျောင်းမှုနှင့် စားနပ်ရိက္ခာထောက်ပံ့ရေးရန်ပုံငွေအဖွဲ့ဝင်၊ အရှေ့တောင်အာရှ ဆိုင်ရာ ကမ္ဘာ့စီးပွားရေးဖိုရမ်၏ Global Agenda Council ဒုတိယဥက္ကဋ္ဌလည်းဖြစ်သည်။ ဟားဗတ်တက္ကသိုလ်၊ နယူးယောက်ရှိ နိုင်ငံတကာငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးအင်စတီကျုနှင့် စင်ကာပူနိုင်ငံရှိ အရှေ့တောင်အာရှလေ့လာရေးအင်စတီကျုတို့တွင် ဧည့်သည်ဖဲလိုးအနေဖြင့်လည်းကောင်း၊ ကမ်းဘရစ်ဂျ်တက္ကသိုလ်ရှိ သမိုင်းနှင့် ဘောဂဗေဒရေးရာစင်တာတွင် သုတေသနအဖွဲ့ဝင်အဖြစ် ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိသည်။
စာပေရေးရာ
ခြေရာပျောက်မြစ် (The River of Lost Footsteps)နှင့် တရုတ်-အိန္ဒိယ ဆုံမှတ် (Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia) စာအုပ်များအပြင် ခေတ်သစ်မြန်မာပြည်အား ဖန်တီး ပုံဖော်ခြင်း (The Making of Modern Burma(Cambridge University Press 2000))နှင့် ကုလသမဂ္ဂအတွင်းရေးမှူးရုံးအကြောင်းအကျဉ်းချုပ်ကို ဖော်ပြသည့် The UN Secretariat: A Brief History (Lynne Rienner 2007) တို့ကို ရေးသားသူလည်း ဖြစ်သည်။ The New York Time်၊ The Washington Post၊ The Lost Angeles Times၊ The International Herald Tribune၊ The London Review of Books၊ The New Statesman၊ The Far Eastern Economic Review၊ Time Magazine နှင့် The Times Literary Supplement များတွင်လည်း ဆောင်းပါးများ ရေးသားလျက်ရှိသည်။ သူ၏ တရုတ်-အိန္ဒိယ ဆုံမှတ် စာအုပ်ဖြင့် Asia Affairs Research Council and Mainichi Newspapers က ချီးမြှင့်သည့် အာရှ-ပစိဖိတ်ဆု၊ အထူးဆုကို ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ်၊ နိုဝင်ဘာလတွင် ရရှိခဲ့သည်။
ရရှိခဲ့သည့် ဂုဏ်ပြုဆုများ
၂၀၁၅ ခုနှစ်တွင် ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံမှ ပေးအပ်ချီးမြှင့်သော ဖူကူအိုကာဆု (Fukuoka Grand Prize)၊ ၂၀၁၈ ခုနှစ်တွင် အိန္ဒိယအစိုးရမှ ပေးအပ်ချီးမြှင့်သော ပဒုမ္မာသီရိဆု (Padma Shri)တံဆိပ်တို့ကို ချီးမြှင့်အပ်နှင်းခြင်းခံခဲ့ရသည်။[၅]
ကိုးကား
- https://web.archive.org/web/20131002050833/http://www.mmtimes.com/2012/news/619/news61901.html
- http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/world-thinkers-2014-the-results
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVbAZT1wYrA
- Thant Myint-U and Elizabeth Sellwood, “Knowledge and Multilateral Interventions: The UN’s Experiences and Cambodia and Bosnia-Hercegovina”, Royal Institute of International Affairs (2000)
- https://thewire.in/education/japans-fukuoka-prize-for-ramachandra-guha
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