The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics
A one-day workshop on ‘The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics’ was organised by Dr Matthew J Walton was held on 15th June 2017 at St Antony’s College
A list of papers given is provided below, please see the links for a number of audio recordings.
- The Karen and the Gift of Education
Pia Joliffe (University of Oxford)
Audio Podcast
- The Karen, Education and the Diaspora
Bob Anderson (Mobile Education Partnerships)
Audio Podcast
- Perinatal Depression in Migrant and Refugee Karen and Burmese women in Tak province, Thailand
Gracia Fellmeth (University of Oxford)
Audio Podcast
- Coming of Age in Hpa-an: Hope and Visions of the Good Life
Justine Chambers (Australian National University)
Audio Podcast
- Non-state welfare and the politics of abandonment: Northern Karen State in the shadow of the 1990s
Gerard McCarthy (Australian National University)
Audio Podcast
- Vulnerability, Poverty and Displacement and the absence of Interim Arrangements: Karen Communities in Ceasefire areas of Southeast Burma/Myanmar
Tim Schroeder (Covenant Consult / Friedensau Adventist University)
Audio Podcast
- From Conflict to Ceasefire: Landmines as a form of community protection in Eastern Myanmar
Greg Cathcart
Audio Podcast
- Comparing the KNU and KIO ceasefire experiences
David Brenner (University of Surrey)
Audio Podcast
- Humanitarian Aid and the Karen
Alexander Horstmann (Tallinn University)
Audio Podcast
- ‘Everything has changed’ yet ‘I have nothing’: the Transborder lives of Karen women from Hpa-an, Myanmar
Indrė Balčaitė (Central European University)
Audio Podcast
- History of Social Suffering and the Social Agent
Father Vinai (The Seven Fountain Jesuit Regional Retreat Centre / People for Others Foundation)
- Roundtable Discussion: The Future of Karen in Myanmar/Burma and the diaspora
Benedict Rogers, Martin Smith, Richard Dolan and Justine Chambers
Audio Podcast