Can We All Get Along?
TRANSCEND VIDEOS, 30 Dec 2024
Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service
Photo courtesy of Will Allen-Dupraw, September 2024, Zarni in the South Hebron Hills of the Occupied West Bank
22 Dec 2024 – World View is WORT’s international news show and we’ve reported on Myanmar over time but recently it seems the situation there has become more complicated.
We asked Zarni, who is from Myanmar and has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.
As you can hear in Zarni’s interview with Gil Halsted and Amitabh Pal, he has spent time considering what has happened in Myanmar and many other places in the world. He apologized for not bringing us better news about Myanmar and not being able to give us much hope for improved relationships or conditions there. But he is doing what he can with the tools at his disposal and sometimes that’s simply sharing information.
We thank him for that and for his continuing activism and for dedicating himself to speaking up and out and for looking for humanity in our fellow humans.
You can read Zarni’s reports at the Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia or FORSEA site.
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A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center – Cambodia. Zarni is the co-founder of FORSEA, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for Free Rohingya Coalition, and an adviser to the European Centre for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge. Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the New York Times, The Guardian and the Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University), and Myanmar’s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, Essays on Myanmar Genocide.
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