Updates
Lao Civil Society Actors Exposure Visit to Myanmar
In collaboration with CORD, AFSC and SEM Laos this Dialogue and Exchange Program event brought together 16 civil society leaders from Lao PDR to travel together to Myanmar to learn from the Myanmar experience of civil society building in a restrictive political environment. The seven-day visit was a chance to build relationships among participants and begin a discussion on how to build civil society in Laos.
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Voices from the Ground: Concerns over the Dawei Special Economic Zone and Related Projects
This report, published by Dawei Development Association in collaboration with SEM, Paung Ku, TERRA, EARTH, Mekong Watch, Earth Rights International (ERI), and numerous individuals, examines the Dawei Special Economic Zone (DSEZ) project in Southern Myanmar, which, if realized, would be one of the largest petrochemical industrial estates in South East Asia. It presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative study, aimed at understanding the process by which the DSEZ project has unfolded, and the extent to which the rights of the local people are being protected and respected by the relevant States and corporations in the implementation of the project.
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Youth Peacebuilding in Myanmar
As part of SEM’s peacebuilding efforts in Myanmar,we have begun to engage with Buddhist youth across the country, also as a strategy to bring peace building approaches to Buddhist communities, and to heighten their awareness of conflict occurring in ethnic and faith minority communities around the country.
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Finding the Way Forward: Communal Violence in Myanmar
SNF Annual Report 2012
CPME wins 7Day News ‘Social Hero Award’
?7 Day News honored the SOCIAL HERO AWARD to the Center for Promotion of Monastic Education (CPME)and Socially Engaged Monastic Schools (SEMS) which were founded by Venerable U Nayaka (Phaung Daw Oo)?and Ko Tar ( SEMS,) to enhance the capacity of the monastic school teachers in teaching and learning for Education.
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In Dawei, activists and residents find their voice
CPME Education Seminar and Fair – 8-9 December 2012
Mandalay, Myanmar
in collaboration with CPME and SEM
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