Designing Strategies to Facilitate and Maintain the Kayin State Ceasefire in Myanmar

Designing Strategies to Facilitate and Maintain the Kayin State Ceasefire in Myanmar

Please Following the structure as below:
I. Introduction
1. Historical Summary of Myanmar
2. Overview of the Kayin conflict
3. Kayin Conflict in the present day
II. State and Ethnic Issues, Grievances and Perceived Threats and Relations with Internal and External Actors
1. Historical overview of the Kayin state within Myanmar, its ethnic compositions, and cultural peculiarities.
2. Cleavage, Issues and Grievances Overview—provide an overview of the cleavages within the state; an overview of the issues and grievances the communities and societal segments have, and the overall issues faced; and, an overview of the overlapping and cross-cutting cleavages, issues and grievances. Based on the overlapping and cross-cutting cleavages, issues, and grievances ponder and discuss those which unite societal segments and those which could potentially exacerbate tensions.
3. Perceived threats Overview—discuss what are and could be the perceived threats of the Kayin State; whether they are different from the perception of threats held by the national government; and, how could both perceptions of threats impact the national ceasefire.

4. Internal and External Relations—articulate and map the state’s relations with other states, the national government, and the external actors at the regional and global community. Discuss how the competing relations could impact facilitating and maintaining a ceasefire.
III. Strategies and Tactics for Facilitating and Maintaining the Kayin State Ceasefire
1. Discuss the difference between facilitating and maintaining the national ceasefire
2. Articulate strategies and tactics for facilitating the Kayin State ceasefire and assess the strengths and weakness of the employment of each on. In this part please be sure to ponder the networks of actors, interests, issues and relations.
3. Articulate strategies and tactics for maintaining the Kayin State ceasefire. In this part please be sure to ponder the networks of actors, interests, issues and relations. Also please make sure that past ceasefires and their breakdown are considered when thinking over the strategies and tactics and assessing their strengths and weaknesses.
IV. Conclusion: New Approaches to Peace-building
1. Assess the role and importance of peace-building in conflict management, transformation and resolution.
2. Assess the role of domestic and regional actors in Kayin State’s peace-building process. That is, what role could regional states play in the peace-building process, particularly in light of their foreign policies? How could regional actors contribute to the employment of the strategies and tactics for both facilitating and maintaining the ceasefire?
3. Provide at least five recommendations each for Myanmar and ASEAN.

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