Announcements
“To enhance biological innovative capabilities, policies, and institutions to support just, equitable and sustainable social and
economic development in developing countries”
The Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, with support from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has launched in February 2009 a small grants competition program to tackle bio-innovation and its social and policy implications for poverty alleviation in the Asian Region.
Selected research projects will last for 12 months and will focus mainly on bio-innovations demonstrated to be directly relevant to the social phenomenon of poverty – whether alleviating, worsening or creating new forms of poverty. The scope of poverty is further narrowed down to two important areas: on poor people’s livelihoods and basic health.
Readmore:
http://cambodiajobs.blogspot.com/2009/02/small-grants-for-enabling-bio.html
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UNITED NATIONS JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS
The Dag Hammarskjöld Scholarship Fund for Journalists is now accepting applications from professional journalists from developing countries for its Fellowship Program.
The Fellowships are available to radio, television, print and web journalists, age 25 to 35, from developing countries who are interested in coming to New York to report on international affairs during the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The Fellowships will begin in mid-September and extend to late November and will include the cost of travel and accommodations in New York, as well as a per diem allowance.
The Fellowship Program is open to journalists who are native to one of the developing countries in Africa, Asia, South America and the Caribbean
http://cambodiajobs.blogspot.com/2009/02/united-nations-journalism-fellowships.html
Scholarship Announcements for Burmese Women
Asian University for Women, Bangladesh
March 15 deadline
From: Dave Gilbert
Dear all,
Please see attached info and application pack for Asian University for
Women. Full scholarships are available in their bridging course and in the
degree program for students from Myanmar/Burma and there is a new deadline
of March 15. For more info, write to auwmyanmar@gmail. com or see their
website: http://www.asian- university.org . Please pass it on to anyone who
may be interested.
Best wishes,
Dave
The MMMF was established in 1981 to honor the late Margaret McNamara and her commitment to the wellbeing of women and children in developing countries. The purpose of the grant is to support the education of women from developing countries who are committed to improving the lives of women and children in their home countries. Previous grant recipients studied agriculture, architecture, urban planning, civil engineering, education, forestry, journalism, nursing, nutrition, pediatrics, public administration, public health, social sciences, and social work.
Read more:
http://cambodiajobs.blogspot.com/2009/02/scholarship-from-margaret-mcnamara.html
HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: Chatham House Conference
intervention-conference-programme.pdf
BURMA SEMINARS
Two Seminars on Burma’s Military Regime and Its Consequences, Singapore, 2 June 2008
seminar-by-zarni-tin-mg-mg-than-singapore-2-june.pdf
zarni-seminar-at-rajaratnum-school-of-inetrnational-studies-2-june-2008.pdf
FUNDING AND SCHOLARSHIP
Heinrich Boell, the Nobel Prize (literature) winner and German writer and thinker, strolling along River Rhine.
The Heinrich Boell Foundation Southeast Asia Regional Office, Thailand (Germany) has announced its call for scholarship applications from academically qualified Burmese applicants residing in Burma/Myanmar. Successful applicants will be enrolled in Master’s degree programs in internaional development, sustainable development or economics at the two top-ranked universities in Thailand. For more information click on the link below.
http://www.boell-southeastasia.org/en/web/index_112.html#scholarship_program
PUBLICATIONS
2008
The Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development at the University of Oxford has just published the latest issue of its flagship journal ‘Force Migration Review’, with a special focus on Burmese refugees. The Burmese language version of the FMR Special Issue on BUrma is due out in a few weeks’ time.
To download the PDF version of the FMR click on the link below.
Burmese historian Thant Myint-U’s internationally acclaimed The River of Lost Foot Steps: A Personal History of Burma is now out in paperback edition.
It may be ordered on-line.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=thant+myint-u
Britain’s Centre for Global Governane and International Affairs at the University of Bristol has recently published a working paper by Professor Mark Duffield entitled On the Edge of No Man’s Land: Chronic Emergency in Myanmar. To download click the link below.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/politics/grc/workingpapers/politics/grc/workingpapers/01-08paper.pdf
Burma/Myanmar: After the Crackdown
Refugees International, a Washington-based non-governmental organization with years of experience on Burma/Myanmar affairs, has released their country report entitled ‘Burma: A New Way Forward” this March.
To read the full text click on the link below.
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/10524/
Burma/Myanmar: After the Crackdown, a report released this past Janary by the Brussells-based International Crisis Group (ICG) is also available on-line. To read the executive summary and download the full report click on the link below.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5273
2007
Promoting Human Rights in Burma: A Critique of Western Sanctions Policy
Promoting Human Rights in Burma: A Critique of Western Sanctions Policy By Morten B. Pedersen, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
“Since 1988, when Burma’s military rulers crushed a popular uprising, Western governments have promoted democracy as a panacea for the country’s manifold development problems. This book puts forward an argument that Western democracy rhetoric has not supplied the solution to these problems. It proposes an alternative model of critical engagement.”
This is the only book-length study looking at the societal cost of the well-meaning, but simplistic and naive application of sanctions as the be-all-end-all foreign policy tool in a country that has been struggling to shake off the legacies of British colonialism, civil war, ethnic conflicts and impoverishment. To read the preview or order click on the link below.
2006
“Active Citizens under Political Wraps: Experiences from Myanmar/Burma and Vietnam”
Book publication: “Active Citizens under Political Wraps: Experiences from Myanmar/Burma and Vietnam”
In November 2006, HBF’s Southeast Asia Regional Office published, in both book and PDF formats, the proceedings of the Roundtable. The publication compiles a collection of essays which reflect critically on the experiences and developments of civil society in Vietnam and Myanmar/Burma in their pursuit for pro-democracy and pro-change politics in the two paternalistic states. This intellectual work confronts the conventional view that civil society neither exists nor functions in one of the few remaining socialist countries, Vietnam, and the military-ruled Myanmar/Burma.
To download the PDF formatted book clinck on the link below.
http://www.boell-southeastasia.org/download_en/ActiveCitizensHBF2006_EN.pdf
2005
Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar
Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar By Peter Olszewski, Allen and Unwin, 2005.
“A vivid, insider’s account of one of the most inaccessible and mysterious countries in Asia, this book looks beyond topographical features to discover the psyche of the people of Myanmar. Appointed to train local journalists for 18 months at the English-language weekly The Myanmar Times, and despite a measure of danger in accepting the assignment, Peter Olszewski throws himself into the daily life and culture of Yangon—even finding himself in a real-life, fairy-tale romance. Myanmar has recently been the focus of humanitarian and political outrage in developed countries, and this book gives a surprising, new perspective on the question of democratization.”
To read the preview of the book click on the link below.
