Building Infrastructures for Peace - The Role of Liaison Offices in Myanmar?s Peace Process

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A CPCS Learning Paper..... Introduction: "The rapid nature of developments in the past few years has placed Myanmar in a precarious position, without a solid infrastructure of institutions to effectively ground and sustain the country?s transition towards a more peaceful future. Contentious issues such as the formation of a federal union and a framework for political dialogue exacerbated by continued outbreaks of violence have threatened to undermine the country?s recent progress. In this context, the presence of local institutions dedicated to supporting the growth of peace in the country and to addressing the root causes of conflict is essential to the success of Myanmar?s peace process. The importance of establishing an infrastructure to sustain and promote a country?s progress towards peace has attracted growing attention as a core component of sustainable peacebuilding. The term ?peace infrastructure” or ?infrastructure for peace” (I4P) is used to describe interconnected structures or mechanisms that span across all levels of society to foster more strategic, sustainable and locally rooted interventions to conflict. This paper examines the Myanmar peace process under a framework of peace infrastructure to identify spaces to strengthen the foundation of peace in Myanmar, namely by building the capacity of liaison offices, institutions that have been established to strengthen communication and coordination between conflict parties and facilitate wider community engagement in the peace process. Based on the Centre for Peace and Conflict (CPCS) observations and interviews with over 100 liaison office staff, it provides an analysis of liaison offices in the scope of the larger peace process to provoke insights on how liaison offices can work to address some of the more deeply rooted causes of conflict in the country. This paper concludes with a series of recommendations for providing greater support to liaison offices so they can fulfil their potential as effective structural supports of peace in Myanmar..."

Creator/author: 

Quinn Davis

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Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)

Date of Publication: 

2016-01-00

Date of entry: 

2016-02-20

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English

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