Some good news about Parami U but Myanmar remains in chaos due to the ongoing conscription. Some modest territorial gains by the opposition.

Nine rising Juniors from Parami University had internships in Washington DC this summer with nine great organizations. This is their story.

In December 2015, I presented a paper at a conference in Hong Kong on a radical approach to developing a site in Myanmar as a new city.

There is only bad news in this update. The military junta started conscripting men for the army, plunging the country into chaos.

A surprising turn in the conflict in Burma gets priority in this Update; meanwhile all is going well at Parami University.

The Parami University story continues to amaze; the mess in Myanmar continues to distress all who hope for an end to the junta’s brutality.

There is good news about Parami U, but the Mess in Myanmar has gotten messier.

A lot has happened since my last update, which was sent out on 19 December 2021. Here's the bad news followed by the good news.

I try to send updates to family and friends at least twice a year covering the ongoing conflict and progress in building Parami University.

In a December 2019 blog post for Brookings, three months before the Covid-19 pandemic, I wrote about the coexistence of peace and war.

In a January 2018 blog post for Brookings, I noted how strong the economy is despite the ethnic cleansing operation against the Rohingya.

In a November 2017 blog post for Brookings, returning from a visit to Myanmar, I wrote about US policy in reaction to the Rohingya crisis.

In a Brookings podcast in September 2017, I was interviewed about the merciless ethnic cleansing operation against the Rohingya in August.

In a September 2017 blog post for Brookings, I tried to explain the complex origins of the Rohingya crisis in a Q and A format.

In an August 2017 Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, I wrote that it’s wrong to blame Aung San Suu Kyi for the Rohingya crisis.

In a March 2017 blog post for Brookings, I put Aung San Suu Kyi’s peace process in the context of Myanmar’s decades long civil war.

In this Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, I explained why Aung San Suu Kyi lacked the power to stop mistreatment of the Rohingya.

For the East Asia Forum, I wrote that “consolidating power”, a key to President Jokowi’s success, would be key for Aung San Suu Kyi too.

In this Brookings blog post, I described the unprecedented growth of mobile telephones, skipping 2G technology for a 3G smart phone system.

On the eve of Aung San Suu Ky’s visit to the US, I suggested that the conflict in Myanmar is more intractable than the Middle East conflict.