BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2022//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2022 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241221T195600 UID:euroseas-2022-myanmar-s-uphill-battle-and-prospects-for-federal-democracy SUMMARY:Myanmar’s Uphill Battle and Prospects for Federal Democracy LOCATION:Room 3.09 DESCRIPTION:Continuing violence, arbitrary arrests, and lawlessness inflict ed by the military junta has been causing community atrocities, increasing trends of IDPs, refugee outflows, disruption of economic fundamentals, and unwanted humanitarian crises amid the global coronavirus pandemic. While th e consensus of the Myanmar people is to rid the military at any cost, the m ilitary junta refuses to yield to the domestic and international demands to respect the results of the election; in fact, its actions till date inform the military’s likely intention to wipe any prospects for democracy. \n\nT he roundtable discusses the divergent aims by the people and the military t o establish a new order in Myanmar. As the turning point towards this goal nears, the roundtable also recognizes that the people of Myanmar has shown an unprecedented level of unity: established ethnic armed organizations, th e National Unity Government (NUG), NUG’s PDF and other local/community PDFs across the country, Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) workers, and the gen eral public share the same mission to “free” the nation from the military’s actions that have been violating fundamental human rights and other intern ational norms. \n\nThe roundtable also discusses the gap in the local actor s’ priorities highlighted above and the international actors’ interests. Th e organizers and participants of the roundtable therefore find ways in whic h any external/internal facilitation activities, including mediation dialog ue, preventive diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, punitive measures, rec onstruction, and transitional justice mechanisms, could sensitively conside r this gap. URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/myanmar-s-uphill-battle-and-prospects-for-federal-democracy DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220629T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220629T123000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR