08.00-08.40

Registration

08.45-09.00

Opening Remarks
Prof. Pongruk Sribanditmongol, M.D. Ph.D. President, Chiang Mai University

09.00-09.30

Welcome Speech
Professor Dr. Surakiart Sathirathai, President of the University Council, Chiang Mai University

09.30-09.50

Performance by Joy House

09.50-10.30

What ICBMS5 expects from you: A Reminder from the Chair of the Conference
Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Ph.D., Chair of the ICBMS5 Organizing Committee

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-12.30

Plenary Session I: The Way Forward for the Thai-Myanmar Border: Humanitarian Actions, Governance, Health, and Regional Responses
(1) Fuadi Pitsuwan, President of Surin Pitsuwan Foundation
(2) Piya Hanvoravongchai, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
(3) Myat Htoo Razak, Distinguished Professor and Co-Director, School of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
(4) Sirada Khemanitthathai, Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Chiang Mai University
Moderator: Khathaleeya Liamdee, Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

12.30-13.30

Lunch

13.30-15.00

Concurrent session 1 (10 sessions)

SESSION 1 Room: 1

Convener: Alison
Chair: Myint Zaw
  1. Fragmented Governance and Civilian Protection in Post-Coup Myanmar: Comparative Insights from Shan and Karenni States
    April Kyu Kyu
  2. Resource Sharing and Governance after Politic Dimension Shift in Post-Election
    Pyi Pyi Thant
  3. External Relations of Myanmar from Post-Coup to Post-Election
    Hnin
SESSION 2 Room: 2

Convener: John Buchanan
Chair: John Buchanan
  1. Security Sector Reforms as a Conflict Driver? a New Look at Conflict Duration in Myanmar’s Never-Ending Civil Wars
    John Buchanan
  2. Withdrawn
    Melissa Booth
  3. Scenarios for Security Sector Reform in Myanmar's Heartland
    Min Aung Mann
  4. The Poppy and the Coca Leaf: Lessons from Colombia’s Experiences in Tackling Drug Economies for Transitional Justice and Sustainable Peace in Myanmar
    Manassinee Moottatarn
SESSION 3 Room: 3

Convener: Busarin Lertchavalitsakul
  1. The Paradox of the State’s Governmentality of Spatiality and Temporality in Cross-Border Pollution in the Energy Transition Era: Case Studies of the Kok, Sai, Ruak Mekong, and Kraburi
    Suebsakun Kidnukorn
  2. Border Infrastructure and Materiality: Cross-border Trade and Tin-Tungsten in Transit in Kayah State Frontiers
    Busarin Lertchavalitsakul
SESSION 4 Room: 4

Convener: Ta-Wei Chu
Chair: Ta-Wei Chu
  1. The Kachin Independence Organization/army’s Re-Governance
    Ta-Wei Chu, Seng Li, David Brenner and D Moon Awng
  2. Karen Armed Groups and Contested Governance Along the Asian Highway in Post-2021 Myanmar: Intra-Ethnic and Religious Divisions
    Saw Jonathan
  3. The Scam Economy as a State-Building Strategy: The Myanmar Junta’s Border Governance in the Post-Coup Era
    Nyan Luu Aung
  4. A Crisis of Shan Nationalism and the Dual Failures of Shan Armed Leadership
    Amporn Jirattikorn
SESSION 5 Room: 5

Chair: Debbie Stothard
Discussant: Debbie Stothard
  1. Geopolitics and Asean Centrality: Looking Beyond the Five Point Consensus on Myanmar
    Noel Morada
  2. Managing Non-Interference: China’s Low-Profile Engagement with Rebel Groups in Myanmar
    Yaolong Xian
  3. Crisis as Catalyst: Myanmar and the Reconfiguration of Human Rights Protection in ASEAN
    Yuyun Wahyuningrum
  4. Strategic Investment and Trust-Building between Bangladesh and Myanmar: A Geoeconomic Pathway
    Syed Mohsin and Imtiaz Ahmed
SESSION 6 Room: 6

Coordinator: Kyoko Kusakabe
Chair: Hnin Shwe Zin Hlaing
  1. Nang Moet Moet
  2. Nang Yin
  3. Mi Cherry Soe
SESSION 7 Room: 7

Chair: Sai Sam Kham
Discussant: Sai Sam Kham
  1. Living with Dispossession: Social Suffering Among Delta Peasants in Post Coup Myanmar
    COFFEE
  2. Climate Governance Beyond the State: Environmental Authority and Revolutionary Governance in Post-Coup Myanmar
    Madeleine Hoecklin
  3. Stewards, Not Squatters: Transitional Justice and the Formalization of Mon Customary Land Rights
    Areerat Worawongwasu
  4. Pa-O Farmers’ Land Struggle and Livelihood Strategies in Hsi Hseng Township, Southern Shan State, Myanmar
    Nang Nu Nwe
SESSION 8 Room: 8

Chair: Soontree Siriinntawong
Discussant: Soontree Siriinntawong
  1. Gendered Pathways to Care: Psychosocial Healing and Exclusion in the Burmese Diaspora
    Marni Suu Reynolds
  2. Stigmas Beyond Boundaries: Cultural Resilience of Myanmar Widows and Single Mothers in Mae Sot Community, Thailand
    Thapyay Lynn Htun
  3. Women’s Unpaid Care Work in Conflicts and Crisis: Evidence from Myanmar
    Nyein Chan Min Lwin
  4. Displaced Women’s Lived Experience in Kachin Women’s Movement in Myanmar
    Ying Lwin
SESSION 9 Room: 9

Chair: Ei Thin Zar
Discussant: Ei Thin Zar
  1. Educating in Conflict: The Impact on Teacher Well-Being in Myanmar's Community Colleges
    Ei Thandar Phyo
  2. Identity as an Institutional Design Principle: How Kachin Ethno-National Identity Shapes Governance Rules in Community Schools
    Moon
  3. Linguistic Citizenship in Borderland Classrooms: Intersections of Multilingual Education and Agency Among Displaced Populations in Mae Sot
    Sunantha Inkhamchuea, Naw Eh Htee Hta Hser, Kitt and Wirachan Charoensuakarn
  4. Resilience of Community-Based Education in Chin State and Its Role in Localized Education Reform
    Shwin and Yadana
SESSION 10 Room: 10

Coordinator: Zineb Naini, Spirit In Education Movement
Chair: Zineb Naini
  1. Psychosocial Impacts of Protracted Conflict and Group-Based Violence on Individuals, Communities, and Institutions Engaged in Myanmar
    Saw Bosco
  2. Emerging Practices That Expand Psychosocial Support Toward More Holistic Approaches, Including Community-Building, Trust-Building, and Strengthening Collective Well-Being Among Myanmar People in Myanmar and Thailand
    Chanchai Chaisukkosol
  3. Sharing of Experiences on Key Challenges in Providing Psychosocial Support Amid Displacement, Insecurity, and Restricted Civic Space
    Kristen
  4. Sharing of Experiences on Key Challenges in Providing Psychosocial Support Amid Displacement, Insecurity, and Restricted Civic Space
    Ivan

15.00-15.15

Coffee Break

15.15-16.45

Concurrent session 2 (10 sessions)

SESSION 11 Room: 1

Chair: Kay
Discussant: Kay
  1. From Ward to Warfront: The Poetry of a Nurse-Turned-Revolutionary Health Leader in Upper Myanmar (Ah Nyar)
    San Win Aung
  2. Building Solidarity in Myanmar’s Revolution
    Phyu Phyu, Matthew Walton, Aye Lae Tun, Aye Thein, Oliver Oo and Tin Zar Aung
  3. Hope(s) amid Wartime Border-crossing
    Zhuo Niu
  4. Using film, television, music and art effectively for the transition in Burma.
    Patrick Burgess
SESSION 12 Room: 2

Convener: Alexander Horstmann
Chair: Alexander Horstmann
  1. Imagining Social Revolution- a Theatre and Storytelling Performance on the Meaning of Home in Maesot
    Alexander Horstmann
  2. Youth Pedagogy in the Liminality of Displacement
    Su Myat Thwe
  3. Reproduction of Womanhood Among the Karenni Armed Forces
    Ma Cheria and Chris
  4. Global Civil War-scapes: Communitas and Exploitation within Logistical Warfare
    Elliott Prasse-Freeman and Francesco Buscemi
  5. Transnational Activism Across Thailand and Myanmar
    Naruemon Thabchumpon
SESSION 13 Room: 3

Coordinator: Naw Gladys Maung Maung
Chair: Naw Gladys Maung Maung
  1. Analyzing Legitimacy Claims in Burma
    Naw Gladys Maung Maung
  2. Maw Day Myar
  3. May Thaw
SESSION 14 Room: 4

Convener: Ashley South
Chair: Ashley South
  1. Defining Humanitarianism, and introducing the Dhammarakkhita Working Group, ‘Just War’ doctrines, and the Burma/Myanmar context
    Ashley South and Charlie Dorman-O'Gowan
  2. Buddhism and the law of war
    Sai Kheunsai Jaiyen and Adjarn Peunkham Payakwong
  3. Buddhist ethics, human rights and Aung San Suu Kyi
    Mon Mon Myat
  4. Christian Perspectives on Faith and Humanitarianism in Burma
    David Eubank
SESSION 15 Room: 5 (Special Event)

SESSION 16 Room: 6

Convener: Gray Rinehart
Chair: Caine Rolleston
  1. Operationalizing Pathways for Learning
    Gray Rinehart
  2. Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence from Monastic Schooling
    Myat Thandar Aung and May Yi Myint
  3. Quantitative Evidence from Karen Schooling
    Naw Bway Paw, Saw Ler Moo and Saw Thaw Thi
  4. Implications of Findings
    Gray Rinehart
SESSION 17 Room: 7

Chair: Chusak Wittayapak
Discussant: Chusak Wittayapak
  1. The Pulse and the Pain: Vernacular Knowledge and Solastalgia Among Irrawaddy Alluvial Agrarians
    Reva
  2. Exploring the Environmental Injustice in Myanmar: The Impacts of Rare-earth Mining on Ecosystems and Local Livelihoods in the Kachin-China Borderland
    Min Myat Aung
  3. Resistance Strategies of Local Community to Tin Mining Between Crisis and Possibility: A Case Study in Dawei, Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar
    Aye Mon Thu
  4. Resource Extraction and the Post-Coup Armed Conflict: A Case Study of Gold Mining in Indawgyi, Kachin State, Myanmar
    Theingi
SESSION 18 Room: 8

Convener: Yuya Han Htwe
Chair: Andrew Wai Phyo Kyaw
Discussant: Andrew Wai Phyo Kyaw
  1. Fleeing the Draft: Lived Experiences of Middle-Class Migrants in Bangkok
    Phoo Pwint
  2. Everyday Experiences of Exiled Myanmar Agricultural Workers on the Mae Sot Border
    Ching Liu
  3. The Life Experiences of the Myanmar Young Exiles in Mae Sot after 2021 Coup
    Samuel Aye
  4. Fighting and Living in the Revolution: Everyday Experiences of Female Pdf Warriors in Myanmar
    Yuya Han Htwe
SESSION 19 Room: 9

Chair: Samak Kosem
Discussant: Samak Kosem
  1. Hta Mein Movement: Body Politics of Muslim Women in Spring Revolution after the 2021 Myanmar Coup D’état
    Michelle Michelle
  2. Becoming Men of Hpoun: Masculinity, Ethical Personhood, and Moral Knowledge in Burmese Buddhist Life
    Myo Sett Paing
  3. Renegotiating Militarized Masculinity: How Alternative Masculinity Can Contribute to Reparation During and Post Conflict Myanmar
    Lwin Ko Ko Oo and Hsar
  4. The Power of the Cursing Cunt: Amay Gyan and the Politics of Vindictive Clitoral Agency
    Phyo Winn Latt, Aye Tun and Aung Ni Oo
SESSION 20 Room: 10

Chair: Mukdawan Sakboon
Discussant: Mukdawan Sakboon
  1. Between Precarity and Solidarity: Thai Local Responses to Burmese migrants after the 2021 coup
    Wutyi Aung, Gerard Mc Carthy, Ilana Songsomphan and Nang Lao Wann Si
  2. Shan Monks, Forced Migration, and Cross-Border Religious Mobility in the Myanmar–Thailand Borderlands: Navigating Buddhist Institutional Networks across Shan State and Chiang Mai
    Bhakaphon Sinsurin
  3. Liminal Resistance amid Repression and Authoritarian Co-optation: CDM in Exile
    Kalyah
  4. The Dual Pillars of Resilience: How Religious and Political Social Capital Sustain Post-Coup Myanmar Muslim Youth Fleeing Conscription in Chiang Mai and Mae Sot
    Aung Kyaw Soe

16.45-16.50

Transition Period

16.50-18.20

Concurrent session 3 (7 sessions)

SESSION 21 Room: 3

Convener: Xiaoxin Zhong
Chair: Yueping Wang
  1. Community Building and Online Connection Among Burmese People in China
    Xiaoxin Zhong
  2. Sequential State–ngo Synchronization: State Capacity, Civil Society, and Border Governance on the China–myanmar Frontier
    Tianlong You and Yiran Tian
  3. Framing the Antagonists: Cultrual Thickness and Semiotic Shifts of the Northern Myanmar Online Scam
    Hein Khaing
  4. Between Extraction and Negotiation: The Myanmar Gem Merchants Association and Brokered Governance on the China-Myanmar Border
    Fangliang Zhang
SESSION 22 Room: 4

Convener: Stéphen Huard
Chair: Stéphen Huard
  1. Is Anyar Fragmenting? Changing Geography of Trust and Engagement
    Stéphen Huard
  2. Anyar: Value Chain, Conflict and Political Economy Complexity
    Saw Bosco
  3. From Resistance to Rule: Checkpoints and Quasi-State Authority in Upper Sagaing
    Min Aung Mann
  4. Sub-National Governance of Ah Nyar: What Does It Mean for Burma?
    Banyar Toee
SESSION 23 Room: 5

Chair: Ta-Wei Chu
Discussant: Ta-Wei Chu
  1. Rare Earth Mining, Armed Conflicts, and Impact on Livelihood Strategies of Local Kachin People in Chihpwi and Pangwa, Kachin State, Myanmar
    Sut Ring
  2. The Social Lives of Rare Earths
    Laur Kiik
  3. The Cost of 'Green' Growth: Neoliberal Externalities and Environmental Degradation in Myanmar’s Rare Earth Hubs
    Myat Htet Htet Min
  4. Myanmar’s Rare Earth: Formed China’s domination, and Nebulous Conflict Dynamics of Myanmar Armed Actors
    Saung Yanant Pyae Kyaw
SESSION 24 Room: 6

Coordinator: Wint Lwin Lwin Htun
Chair: Kyaw Kyaw, Elliot Lodge
  1. Thitsar
  2. Zenith
  3. Mya Thida Aung
  4. Than Lwin Oo
  5. Shwe Mi
  6. Lei Shwe Sin Myint
SESSION 25 Room: 7

Chair: Bhanubhatra Jittiang
Discussant: Bhanubhatra Jittiang
  1. Solution Framing in Energy Policy: The Discursive Construction of LNG-to-Power Under Myanmar’s NLD Government
    Hsu Myat Yadanar Thein and Yay Chann
  2. Broken Promises at the Crossroads of Development: Militarized Infrastructure, Customary Land Tenure, Human Rights and the Uncertain Future Since Military Attempted the Coup in Myanmar
    Stephen Tun
  3. Systemic Failure: An Integrated Analysis of Sanctions, Divestment, and the Junta’s Adaptation in Post-Coup Myanmar
    Howard
  4. Banking and Financial Systems for NGOs and CSOs in Myanmar
    Jared Bissinger, Romain Caillaud and Maxwell Gardiner
SESSION 26 Room: 8

Chair: Amporn Jirattikorn
Discussant: Amporn Jirattikorn
  1. Opportunities & Challenges for Transgender Applicants in Myanmar's Education Sector
    Kyal Sinn
  2. Decolonizing Humanitarian Aid in Myanmar: An Analysis from Postcolonial Feminist Perspective
    Violet
  3. Challenging Traditional Gender Norms and Fostering Social Change: Finding a Way Forward for Queer Community in Myanmar
    Maung Tshin
  4. Changing forms of activism under challenging political environment: Myanmar women activists
    Kyoko Kusakabe and Sanda Thant
SESSION 27 Room: 9

Chair: Nongyao Nawarat
Discussant: Nongyao Nawarat
  1. General Educational Development (GED) Study as a Bridge for Higher Education for Myanmar Students at Chiang Mai University
    Kyi May Nu
  2. Half Left Behind: Policy Pathways to Educational Equity Along the Thai-Myanmar Border
    Nitchanan Siratkamon, Tha Zin Aye, Aye Min Tun and Suphatsara Thambunthawi
  3. Beyond Borders: Navigating the Triple Crisis of Higher Education Access for Migrant Youth
    Tin Zar, Sut Kanawng and Kaung Set Linn
  4. Education-Led Mobility Under Structural Ceiling: Social Capital and Shan Migrant University Graduates in Urban Chiang Mai
    Nang Lin Kham

18.45-21.00

Reception hosted by Chiang Mai University (By Invitation Only)

09.00-09.40

Keynote: Between Crisis and Possibility from a Political Economy Perspective
Erasmus Professor Dr. Saturnino ('Jun') M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Former Editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies

09.40-11.10

Plenary Session II: Migration from Myanmar in Southeast Asia: Multiple Realities of Migration, Policy Implications, and Practices
(1) Rosalia Sciortino Sumaryono, Founder and Executive Director, SEA Junction
(2) Bhanubhatra Jittiang, Representative of Thailand to ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
(3) Hayso Thako, Karen Refugee Committee (KRC)
Moderator: Sirada Khemanitthathai

Plenary Session III: Rare Earth: Extractive Industry, Global Supply Chain and Transboundary Water Pollution
(1) Seng Li, RCSD Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University
(2) Tara Buakamsri, Director, Greenpeace
(3) Pianporn Deetes, Executive Director, Rivers and Rights
Moderator: Thuzar Thant

11.10-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-13.00

Concurrent session 4 (10 sessions)

SESSION 28 Room: 1 (Special Event)

SESSION 29 Room: 2

Convener: Kevin Woods, Helene Maria Kyed
Chair: Kevin Woods
Discussant: Kevin Woods
  1. Territorial Resistance of Powerless: A Case Study of Communities in Taw Oo
    Saw Ner Duh Da
  2. Extractive Imperative of Resistant State-Making Actors in Myanmar: A Continuum for Survival and State-Making
    Myat Thet Thitsar
  3. Compounding Vulnerabilities in Mon Border Communities
    Thang Sorn Poine
  4. Climate Change as an Arena of Political Struggles During Violent Conflict in Post-Coup Myanmar
    Justine Chambers and Helene Maria Kyed
SESSION 30 Room: 3

Convener: Yau-Hsuan Kuo
Chair: Mu-Lung Hsu
  1. From Coup to Transnational Mobility: Differentiated Mobility Regimes among Burmese Migrants in Taiwan
    BI JU YE
  2. The Social Support Role of Buddhist Monks During Myanmar's 2025 Earthquake
    Pan Di Ta
  3. Myanmar’s Free Funeral Service Movement: A Case Study of Socially Engaged Buddhism from Below
    Mu-Lung Hsu
  4. Neither Kin nor Outsider: The Making of the Sino-Burmese Community in Huaxin Street Under the Cold War
    Yau-Hsuan Kuo
SESSION 31 Room: 4

Coordinator: Maxwell Gardiner
Chair: Ashley South
  1. Maxwell Gardiner
  2. Jessica Chaix
  3. Si Thura
  4. Rajan Khosla
  5. Justin Brady
SESSION 32 Room: 5

Convener: Kyaw Shinn Thant
Chair: Thant Zin Aung
  1. Fostering Local Seed System for Sustainable Horticulture in Myanmar: Perception of Hybrid and Local Seeds Utilization for Sustaining Agroecology in Myanmar
    Thi Mar Win
  2. From Protected Areas to Contested Frontiers: Conflict Ecology, Governance Collapse, and Conservation Federalism in Myanmar
    Nyein Chan
SESSION 33 Room: 6

Convener: Xiaoxin Zhong
Chair: He Ming
  1. Regained and Lost: A Case Study of Refugee Reproduction in the Cross- Border Migration Network of Myanmar’s Highland Ethnic Groups
    Zhiying Gao and Huanyu Wang
  2. Invisible Migration and Incredible Mobility: Rethinking Chain Migration Among Minority Migrants Across China, Laos, and Myanmar
    Tian Shi
  3. Britain's Responses and Measures to the Opium Import from Yunnan, China to Myanmar in the Late 19th Century
    Sai Yan
  4. From Tribute to Traditional Dai Trade: The Cross-Cultural Exchange in China- Burma Borderland During the 14-19th Century
    Xueying Wa
SESSION 34 Room: 7

Convener: Andrew Wai Phyo Kyaw
Chair: Andrew Wai Phyo Kyaw
  1. IDP Resilience and Food Insecurity after 2021 Myanmar Coup in Demoso and Mese Townships, Karenni State, Myanmar
    Naw Khu Doh
  2. Beyond Civil Disobedience: How Displacement Reshapes Student Resistance in Myanmar
    Yee Mon Oo Kyaw
  3. The Gendered Dimensions of Protracted Displacement: Livelihood Strategy and Protection Framework for Karenni Women in Thailand
    Ei Nandar Khin
  4. Repression and Displacement: A Case of Karenni Internal Displacement in Post-Coup Myanmar
    Paing Nyan Hein Aung
SESSION 35 Room: 8

Coordinator: Nyein Chan Min Lwin
Chair: Nyein Chan Min Lwin
  1. How Do We Lift the Cloak of Invisibility? Practical Support and Changes We Can Make for Women. Repository of Practices - Migrant Women’s Initiatives and What They Are Doing to Change the Narrative.
    Jackie Pollock
  2. Gender and Feminist Perspectives on Care Work
    Kyoko Kusakabe
SESSION 36 Room: 9

Chair: Pisith Nasee
Discussant: Pisith Nasee
  1. From Broken Norms to Shared Values : Sports Education as Social Repair
    Nway Hnin Wai
  2. Identity Transformation in Exile: Teacher Agency on the Thai-Myanmar Border
    Myat Thandar Aung, Naw Bway Paw and Nwet Nwet Win
  3. Teaching Justice Under Authoritarian Rule and Ongoing Armed Conflict: Practice-Based Reflections from Myanmar
    Aung Kyaw Oo
  4. Curriculum as a Tool for Transitional Justice and Social Cohesion for Myanmar: Learning from Regional and Global Experiences
    Elsa
SESSION 37 Room: 10

Chair: Alexander Horstmann
Discussant: Alexander Horstmann
  1. Between Human Trafficking and Structural Violence: How do young people from Myanmar end up in the Scam industry?
    Aung Khant Thu
  2. Liberty, Criminality, Violence, and Resistance: Dualities of ‘Lawlessness’ in the Myanmar Borderworld
    Jae Hyun Park
  3. Persistent Online Scam Operations in Myanmar Despite Dismantling Efforts: Fragmented Authority, Structural Drivers, and the Limits of Nationwide Enforcement
    James, Amy, Ko Myat, Pwint and Chan
  4. Normalizing Harm: Cyber-Scam Economies and Moral Reasoning in Myanmar’s Borderlands
    Myo Naing

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.30

Concurrent session 5 (10 sessions)

SESSION 38 Room: 1

Chair: Gustaaf Houtman
Discussant: Gustaaf Houtman
  1. Diplomacy, Law, and Annexation: The Institutional Foundation of Burma's Syncretic Modernity
    Dominiquo Santistevan
  2. Anachronistic Misinterpretation: The Distortion of Myanmar’s Past Through ‘Racial Cleansing’
    Alliyah Carla Panahon
  3. Elite Continuity and Capital Conversion in Colonial Mandalay: The Case of U Lay
    Myo Oo
SESSION 39 Room: 2

Coordinator: John Piper
Chair: John Piper
  1. John Piper
  2. ChloÉ Baills
  3. L Min Paye Mon
  4. Kuecool
  5. Harry
SESSION 40 Room: 3

Coordinator: Saw Bosco
Chair: Mon Mon Myat
Discussant: Mon Mon Myat
  1. Signals, Narratives, and Myanmar Information Ecosystem
    Jasmine
  2. Signals, Narratives, and Myanmar Information Ecosystem
    Iris
  3. Freedom of Expression in Media and Press
    Joy
  4. Information as a Tool for Repression and for Organizing Change
    Htin Kyaw Aye
SESSION 41 Room: 4

Convener: Amporn Jirattikorn
Chair: Amporn Jirattikorn
  1. Humanitarian Access and Assistance to Myanmar: Complex Opportunity Structures in the Delivery of Border-based Aid
    Kirsten McConnachie
  2. What Happens When Aid Needs to Be ‘Quiet’: Cross-Border Aid in Myanmar
    Anne-Meike Fechter
  3. Governing Refugees from Myanmar: A Comparative Analysis of Thailand and India
    Amporn Jirattikorn
SESSION 42 Room: 5

Convener: Gillian McKay
Chair: Gillian McKay
  1. Guardians for Justice: Legal Protection in the Context of Fragility
    Kyaw Kyaw
  2. Unarmed Civilian Protection: Norm Diffusion and Community Adaptation
    Daphne Macatimbol
  3. Research Impact: Tracing Contribution to Civilian Protection
    Gillian McKay
SESSION 43 Room: 6

Coordinator: Sirada Khemanitthathai, Zarni
Chair: Sirada Khemanitthathai, Si Thura
  1. Health Systems Strengthening in Conflict
    Zarni
  2. Ewars and Data Sovereignty
    Sha Kler Law
  3. Tele-Health and Digital Service Delivery
    Kaung Zayyar
  4. Thai–myanmar Cross-Border Policy and Health Security
    Nyein Chan Oo
  5. Converging Diverse Ethnic Health Systems and Federal Health Governance
    Khaing Thandar Hnin
SESSION 44 Room: 7

Chair: Karin Dean
Discussant: Karin Dean
  1. Managing Prolonged Instability at the India–Myanmar Frontier: Comparative Reflections with Thailand
    Atchareeya Saisin
  2. Border Precarity: War, Violence, and Post-Coup Refugee Life in Indo- Myanmar Borderlands
    Roluah Puia
  3. Raltlan Across the Border: Everyday Governance of Myanmar Refugees in Mizoram
    Caroline Lalrosangi and Prof V Ratnamala
SESSION 45 Room: 8

Coordinator: Samak Kosem, Maaike Matelski
Chair: Maaike Matelski
  1. Ye Yint Kyaw
  2. San Hlwan Htet Htet
  3. Sat Htoon Lynn
  4. Phyu Phyu Theint
SESSION 46 Room: 9

Convener: Sena Galazzi Lian
Chair: Ashley South
  1. “Revolution Might Be a Start”: Gender Norm Change Among Chin Refugees in Mizoram, India
    Henri Myrttinen and Lal Rin Sangi
  2. Mental Health, Gender and Conflict in Chin State
    Henry Za Lal Lian
  3. Gendered Expectations and Educational Pathways: Why Displaced Chin Girls Continue or Drop Out of University after the Myanmar Coup
    Agnes
  4. Assessing Sexuality Education Knowledge and Attitudes Among Youth: A Case Study at Chin National University
    Zing
SESSION 47 Room: 10

Coordinator: Bencharat Sae Chua
Chair: Bencharat Sae Chua
  1. The Role of Thai Universities in Providing Education Pathway for Myanmar
    Bencharat Sae Chua
  2. Legal Education for Rule of Law
    Sabae Khine
  3. Enhancing Human Rights and Peace Education in Time of Conflicts
    Magnolia
  4. Educating about Natural Resource Management
    Min Myat Aung
  5. Challenges Faced by Independent Education Institutions
    Louise Simonsen Aaen

15.30-16.00

Coffee Break

16.00-17.30

Concurrent session 6 (10 sessions)

SESSION 48 Room: 1

Convener: Naw Gladys Maung Maung
Chair: Naw Gladys Maung Maung
  1. Community-Based Administration of KIO in Former Kachin Special Region 1
    Maran
  2. Understanding the Shifting of the Wa Self-Administration System in Hopang, Panlong, and Tanyang after Operation 1027
    Maple L. Yun
  3. Analyzing the Ei Tu Hta Internally Displaced Persons Camp Administration in the Karen National Union-Controlled Area
    Naw Eh Kaluu P'aw
  4. Political Participation and Minority Rights within the Current Revolutionary Political Leading Institutions: A Study of Sagaing, Karenni, and Tanintharyi
    Thuta Kyaw
SESSION 49 Room: 2

Chair: Bencharat Sae Chua
Discussant: Bencharat Sae Chua
  1. Contested Rohingya Citizenship between Parallel State Entities in Rakhine State, Myanmar
    Kathy Win
  2. Mapping the Identity Politics of the Rohingya People
    Razaul Faquire
  3. Weaponization of Rohingya Citizenship - How Successive Administrations Have Denied Citizenship Rights to the Rohingya
    Eduardo Rado
SESSION 50 Room: 3

Chair: Aileen Thomson
Discussant: Aileen Thomson
  1. Retributive or Restorative Justice toward Education and Health Non-Civil Disobedience Movement (Non-CDM) Participants in Post-Conflict Myanmar
    Minn Nhu
  2. Barriers to International Criminal Accountability in Myanmar (2017–2024): Explaining Chinese Diplomatic Constraints
    Hnin Wai
  3. Risk, Responsibility and the Limits of Mass Atrocity Prevention
    Gillian McKay
  4. Documenting Atrocity under Constraint: International and Grassroots Human Rights Documentation in Post-2021 Myanmar
    Han Htoo Aung
SESSION 51 Room: 4

Convener: Amporn Jirattikorn
Chair: Amporn Jirattikorn
  1. The Salween Border as Productive, Differentiated Space: Protection, Precarity, and Pollution
    Elliot Lodge and Suwandee Thatsanaprai
  2. Between Care and Uncare: Unpacking the Ambivalent India-Myanmar Border and Its Effects on Western Myanmar
    Angshuman Choudhury
  3. Securing the Border, Constraining Aid: Chin Humanitarian Space in the India-Myanmar Borderlands
    Khen Suan Khai
  4. Humanitarian Assistance Beyond the State: Cross-Border Aid in Karenni State
    Naw Khu Doh
SESSION 52 Room: 5

Coordinator: Sanda Thant
Chair: Sanda Thant
  1. Thaw Thaw
  2. Daw Thandar
  3. Agatha
SESSION 53 Room: 6

Coordinator: Sirada Khemanitthathai, Sirithorn Khositchaiwat
Chair: Sirada Khemanitthathai
  1. Stakeholder Perspectives on Border Health Policy Framework
    Dr. Khathaleeya Liamdee
  2. Humanitarian Health Assistance and Health Security Along the Border
    Nyein Chan Oo
  3. Practical Implications and Challenges in Regulation and Legal Considerations in Border Health Governance
    Piya Hanvoravongchai
  4. Border Health Financing for Sustainable Cross-Border Health Systems
    Natthawut Iangtanarat
SESSION 54 Room: 7

  1. Caught in the Taingyintha Trap: The Naga and Myanmar’s Unfinished Nation-Building
    Ke Jung
  2. Jhum as Indigenous Governance: Decolonial, Multispecies, and Sustainable Relations in the Naga Hills of Myanmar
    Silaing Tong
  3. Mawun-Yur: Indigenous Governance Beyond the Cartography of the Indo(naga)-Myanmar Border
    Achan
SESSION 55 Room: 8

Chair: Naruemon Thabchumpon
Discussant: Naruemon Thabchumpon
  1. The Resilience of Chin Migrants Who Migrated to Bangkok after the 2021 Coup in Burma
    James Bawi
  2. Transnational Everyday Life and Practice of Myanmar Migrants: Focusing on Mae Sot, Thailand after 2021
    Eunjeong Lee
  3. Workplace Words as Everyday Labor Knowledge: Myanmar Migrant Garment Workers in a Thai Border Town
    Haymarn Soe Nyunt
  4. Weak Institutions and Labor Exploitation: Myanmar’s Legal Protection in Garment Industry of Multinational Supply Chains
    Tristan
SESSION 56 Room: 9

Coordinator: Khin Hla Oo
Chair: Ei Nandar Khin
  1. The Role of Community Organizing in Refugee Youth Agency and Leadership
    Khin Oo
  2. Redefining Education for Refugee Youth
    Buangoenkhimrarin Phitchayamethakun
  3. Elizabeth Mimar
  4. Challenges and Innovations in Supporting Idp Students
    Joy Nar
  5. How Karen Youth Navigate Conflict, Build Resilience, and Lead
    Saw Khant Zaw Win
SESSION 57 Room: 10

Convener: Dan Wessner
Chair: Dan Wessner
  1. Tapping into Kawi Knowledge: Kawi Ways of Living
    The The Zuu Zin and Aye Thiri Phyo
  2. Project Luminary: Learning, Responsibility, and Social Change
    Kaung Myat Phyo and Pann Ei Thwel
  3. Alternative Pedagogies, Social Emotional Learning, and Mentorship for Displaced Myanmar Youth: Weaving Well-Mentored Futures of Homegrown Hope
    Niang Sian Lawh Lun and Pone Nyet Aung
  4. Suee San: Reimagining the Path from Local Wisdom to Systematic Inquiry
    Myo Myint Maung Maung and Khin Yadana Kyaw
  5. Envisioning the transformative education in Post-coup Burma through Community Learning Centres (CLCs): Case Study of Padauk Classroom
    Myat Moe Kywe

09.00-10.30

Concurrent session 7 (10 sessions)

SESSION 58 Room: 1

Coordinator: Atchareeya Saisin
Chair: Atchareeya Saisin
  1. Strategic Perspectives on Connectivity and Regional Equilibrium
    Rajen Singh Laishram
  2. Continuum Border Spaces and Uneven Connectivity
    Atchareeya Saisin
  3. Infrastructure Vision and the Paradox of Two Gateways
    Khin Maung Soe
  4. Institutional Adaptation and Border Governance Under Uncertainty
    Thant Kyaw
SESSION 59 Room: 2

Coordinator: Brishan Reilly, Brishan Reilly
Chair: Debbie Stothard
  1. Su Pont
  2. Khanu
  3. Thant
  4. Poe Po
  5. Kyaw Lwin
SESSION 60 Room: 3

Coordinator: Ei Shwe Sin
Chair: Ei Shwe Sin
  1. Bhikkhuni Dhamma Kamala
  2. Frederic
  3. Aung Ko Ko
SESSION 61 Room: 4

Chair: Maaike Matelski
Discussant: Maaike Matelski
  1. CDM as a Social Revolution and Its Effect on Park Management: A Case Study from Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park
    Tint Lwin Thaung
  2. Leikpya Lone La? Moral obligation and Clear Conscience among Myanmar’s Exiles
    Pyae Phyo Thar
  3. Living Resistance: Resilience of CDM participants in exile
    Mya Aung
  4. Medicine, Resistance, and Collective Resilience: CDM Medical Doctors and Ethnic Health Systems in Post-Coup Myanmar
    Hein
SESSION 62 Room: 5

Convener: Sena Galazzi Lian
Chair: Henry Za Lal Lian
  1. Everyday Life as Epistemic Ground: Research, Risk, and Moral Authority in Today’s Chin State
    Sena Galazzi Lian and Khaipi
  2. Gendered Impacts of Explosive Ordnance in Chin State
    [Name withheld], Marie, Sena Galazzi and William
  3. Coping with Crisis: Farming and Food Insecurity in Post-Coup Chin State, Myanmar
    Biak Lian Thang
  4. Natural Resource Management and Climate Resilience in Chin State
    Molley Htar Maung
SESSION 63 Room: 6

Chair: Rebecca Haines
Discussant: Rebecca Haines
  1. Gender Rights in Transition: Navigating Burma’s Evolving Political Landscape and the Path to Federalization
    Htike Htike
  2. Intersectional Resistance and Survival Economies Against Militarized Patriarchy: Progressive Grassroots Women's Organizing in Post-Coup Myanmar
    Khant Khant Zar Nyi and Minn Khant Kyaw Linn
  3. Perceptions of Mon People on Mon Women’s Leadership in Politics after the 2021 Myanmar Military Coup
    Khin Yadana Kyaw and Aung Chan Moe
  4. Women as Everyday Mediators: Informal Learning and Social Change in Myanmar’s Post-2021 Crisis
    Wai Ya Mone Phoo
SESSION 64 Room: 7

Coordinator: Malang Cilangasan
Chair: Malang Cilangasan
  1. Sa Nehru
  2. Mon Mon Myat
  3. Aung Ja
  4. Sai Tun Aung Lwin
  5. Si Thu
SESSION 65 Room: 8

Chair: Stéphen Huard
Discussant: Stéphen Huard
  1. Policing in Conflict Settings: The Bureaucratization of Civilian Security in Karenni State’s Resistance Territories
    Andrea Castronovo
  2. Elections in Divided Societies: Consociational Inclusion and Hybrid Exclusion in Myanmar and India.
    Oratai Soparat
  3. Filling the Gap or Building the State? Civil Society, Emergent Governance, and the Social Contract in Post-Coup Myanmar
    Ye Aung and Paul Taylor
  4. State-Building through Indigenous Conservation Parks in Karen State, Myanmar
    Amy Moore
SESSION 66 Room: 9

Chair: Gustaaf Houtman
Discussant: Gustaaf Houtman
  1. Reflections on Fieldworks Among Vulnerable Populations by Myanmar Exile Scholars During Coup and Revolution in Myanmar
    Tin Maung Htwe
  2. Safe distance, high stakes: The potential and pitfalls of participatory action research as a decolonising methodology in Myanmar
    Min Layi Chan and Wirachan Charoensukaran
  3. Youth Interfaith Assemblages as Alternative Communities in Post-Coup Myanmar
    Wuttyee
  4. Myanmar-as-Method: Dialectically Engaging with the Context to Understand Teacher Activism in Myanmar
    Sa Phyo Arkar Myo Hlaing
SESSION 67 Room: 10

Chair: Elliot Lodge
Discussant: Elliot Lodge
  1. The Politics of Global Justice: Making and Erasing Violence in Myanmar
    Margaux Dandrifosse
  2. Political Constraints and Youth Participation in Civil Society Organizations after Myanmar’s 2021 Military Coup: A Case Study of Mon State.
    Pann Tha Khin
  3. Sacrifice, Victimhood, and Justice: Designing Recognition Without Impunity for Post-2021 Pro-Democracy Armed Fighters in Southeastern Myanmar
    Sike Chan
  4. Restoring Stolen Futures: Exploring Possibilities for Reparations for High School Students Who Continuously Participate in the Civil Disobedience Movement Following the 2021 Myanmar Military Coup
    Fianna

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-12.30

Concurrent session 8 (10 sessions)

SESSION 68 Room: 1

Chair: Naw May Oo
Discussant: Naw May Oo
  1. Shan States' Disintegration Conundrum and Multi-Ethnic Armed Groups Claim
    Sai Tun Aung Lwin
  2. When Berlin and Soweto Meet Karenni: Designing an Intersectional Vetting Framework for Revolutionary Governance
    Kham Lao
  3. Bottom-Up Federalism and the Possibilities of Its Implications on the Minorities within Minorities in Reimagined Myanmar
    Than Lwin Oo
  4. An Economic Blueprint for a Federated Shan State: Fostering Peace through Fiscal Federalism and Decentralized Governance
    Sai Seng SAI
SESSION 69 Room: 2 (Special Event)

SESSION 70 Room: 3

Coordinator: Alicia Cook, Alicia Cook
Chair: Roza Salibekova
  1. How Do Gender, Class, Ethnicity, and Sexuality Intersect to Shape Experiences of Violence and Marginalization in Post-Coup Myanmar?
    Pd
  2. Ethical and Methodological Challenges Conducting Survivor-Centred Research and Documentation; in What Ways Are Grassroots and Cross-Border Organizations Adapting Survivor-Centred Models to Contexts of Militarization, Displacement, and Resource Scarcity?
    Dl
  3. Survivors' Perspective on Justice; Survivors' Roles as Advocates
    Am
  4. Perspective from the Interim Executive Council Working to Shape Gender-Responsive Governance, Advancing Gender Equality Norms in Government Action and Ensuring the Protection and Well-Being of Women and Children in Conflict Zones
    May
  5. Myat Thin Zar Kyaw
SESSION 71 Room: 4

Coordinator: Naw Seng
Chair: Naw Seng
  1. Zung Ting
  2. Cindy Aung
  3. Seng Li
SESSION 72 Room: 5 (Special Event)

SESSION 73 Room: 6

Chair: Nongyao Nawarat
Discussant: Nongyao Nawarat
  1. Designing for Disruption: Aiding Complex Adaptive Ethnic and Refugee Education Systems
    Greg Tyrosvoutis, Gray Rinehart and Min Layi Chan
  2. Dichotomy of Education Provision Aftermath of the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar
    Wah Wah Khine
  3. Conflict, Peace, and the Political Economy of Education in Myanmar
    Sa Phyo Arkar Myo Hlaing
  4. Non-State Education Governance: Legitimacy, Accountability, and Social Impact in Post-Coup Myanmar
    Ei Po Po Khin
SESSION 74 Room: 7

Convener: Kyoko Kusakabe
Chair: Nang Yin
  1. Overview of Climate Change Efforts by Women’s Grassroots Organizations in Myanmar
    Sanda Thant and Kyoko Kusakabe
  2. Experience from Creative Home in Sagaing, Chin, Karen
    Shwe Shwe Sein Latt
  3. Experience from Minu Au-Aw Group in Chin
    Van Hnm Per
SESSION 75 Room: 8

Chair: Mukdawan Sakboon
Discussant: Mukdawan Sakboon
  1. Getting By, Finding Hope: Oral History and Everyday Life of Myanmar Ethnic Nationalities in Baguio City, Northern Luzon, Philippines
    Joao Paulo Reginaldo
  2. Identity Expression and Negotiation Across Generations of Mon People in Ban Wangka, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand
    Kaung Khant
  3. Immobility, Education Access, and Mental Health Among Lisu Youths in Post-Coup Myanmar: Migration, Survival, and Agency in Kachin Borderland
    Zaw Sar Zu
  4. Negotiating Belonging Across Borders: Burmese Migrant Enclaves in South Korea and Taiwan
    Tobiasz Targosz
SESSION 76 Room: 9

Chair: Dulayapak Preecharush
Discussant: Dulayapak Preecharush
  1. Public Trials, Legal Order, and Rebel Legitimacy in Myanmar’s Rebel Lands
    Yaolong Xian
  2. Civil-Military Relations in Contemporary Myanmar: A Security Perspective
    P J Khache
  3. Warriors in Robes? Religious Imagery and Military Counter-Mobilization in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
    Thurein
SESSION 77 Room: 10

Convener: Samak Kosem
Chair: Samak Kosem
Discussant: Pheeraphong Jampee
  1. Reinterpretations of the Vessantara Jataka: Maddi’s Role in the Mon Buddhist Worldview
    Aung Min Thein
  2. Transgressing Masculinities and Displaced Bodies: Myanmar Male Sex Workers in Northern Thailand
    Amnuaypond Kidpromma
  3. Living with Vulnerabilities: Queer Lives Under Buddhist Heteronormativity in Rural Southern Shan State, Myanmar
    Thein Dollar

12.30-13.30

Lunch

13.30-15.00

Concurrent session 9 (7 sessions)

SESSION 78 Room: 1

Convener: Aileen Thomson
Chair: Maaike Matelski
  1. Beyond Safety and Statehood: Resistance in Myanmar and the Limits of Global Norms
    Hein Paing Htoo Chit
  2. Vernacularizing Trauma for Resilience in Post-Coup Myanmar
    Laura Faludi
  3. Challenging Global Norms of ‘Victimhood’ and ‘Innocence’
    Aileen Chattin Thomson
SESSION 79 Room: 2

Convener: Bencharat Sae Chua
Chair: Bencharat Sae Chua
  1. Patriarchal Confinement in Displacement: Gender-Based Violence Among Myanmar Women in Thailand
    Htu Sam and Samantha Jeffries
  2. Title: Status Confinement: Older Shan Migrant Workers in Chiang Mai’ Construction Camp
    Sai Hkur
  3. Political Activism in Exiles: Homeland Activism of Exile Myanmar Youth Activists
    Bencharat Sae Chua
SESSION 80 Room: 3

Convener: Joao Paulo Reginaldo
Chair: Joao Paulo Reginaldo
  1. The Epistemic Violence of a Blended National Sentiment: Implications on Myanmar’s Rohingya Conflict
    Michael Andrei Avila
  2. The Myanmar Problem: Testimonial Injustice in ASEAN’s Non-Interference and the Rohingya Genocide
    Xian Cherubelle Calagui
  3. Weaponizing Environmental Destruction: The Epistemology of Ecocide in Myanmar’s Post-2021 Military Coup
    Berna Joy Corpuz
SESSION 81 Room: 4

Chair: Ei Thin Zar
Discussant: Ei Thin Zar
  1. Exile as a Constitutive Site of Transitional Justice in Deterritorializing Accountability for the Rohingya Genocide
    Tin Maung Htwe
  2. Possibility in Crisis: Situational Vulnerability and Feminist Transformation Among Rohingya Women Beyond Myanmar
    Amporn Marddent
  3. Society, Religion, and Social Exclusion: The Rohingya Struggle in Myanmar’s State
    Jean Omandam, Reizen Marielle Gutierrez and Aivee Shanelle Pasion
  4. AÑRÁ ROHINGYA (We are Rohingya): Corporealizing Rohingya resistance through digital and art-based activism
    Jade Hutt
SESSION 82 Room: 5 (Special Event)

SESSION 83 Room: 6

Convener: Kay
Chair: Kay
  1. Disasters and capitalism: Towards an idea of and political action around ‘humanitarian sovereignty’ in Myanmar’s agrarian societies
    Gum Sha Aung
  2. Land, Remittance and Resistance: Social reproduction and politics across the Thailand- Myanmar labour migration corridor
    May Phyoe
  3. Development or Accumulation? Rethinking the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Approach in Myanmar
    Myat Thet Thitsar
  4. Everyday Resistance of Agrarian Society in the Context of War: Case of Dry Zone Region of Myanmar
    Thel Mon
SESSION 84 Room: 7

Convener: Sena Galazzi Lian
Chair: Thawn Lian, Khen Suan Khai
  1. The Mara Women in the Making of Mara Tribal Proto-Nation
    Flora
  2. Between Folktales and Reality: The Lives of Chin Women (Falam)
    Gracy
  3. The Role of Women in Income Generation Through Chin Traditional Textile Weaving Craft, Hakha, Chin State
    Cer
  4. Educational Engagement in Displacement: Parental Support Among Myanmar Displaced Students in Mizoram
    Par

15.00-15.30

Break

15.30-17.00

Plenary Session IV: Myanmar in the Interregnum: Reimagining the Way Forward amid Regional Dynamics
(1) Debbie Stothard, Founder/ Coordinator, ALTSEAN-Burma
(2) Dulyapak Preecharush, Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University
(3) Constitutional Transition and Regional Dynamics in Burma's Interregnum May-Oo Mutraw, Senior Policy Advisor, Salween Institute for Public Policy
Moderator: Aung Zaw, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Irrawaddy

17.00-17.30

Closing of ICBMS5

17.45-19.00

"Lann Sone" Music Evening