War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994–2011 NIAS Press and a Council Member of

and a Council Member of the Pali Text Society (London)

Department of Language and Literature

A timely reminder of the consequences of ill-considered war

heightened attention is paid to the interaction between localities

This publication was made possible in part by a translation subvention from the Henry Luce Foundation

War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994–2011 NIAS Press and a Council Member ofEdited by Mandy Sadan 2016, 540 pp., maps and illustrations, paperback In 2011 armed hostilities between the Kachin Independence Organisation and Myanmar Army ended a 17 year ceasefire agreement. The unwillingness of local Kachin people and the Kachin political military leadership to bow to pressure for a speedy renewal of the ceasefire frustrated many observers and policy makers, who hoped to see a national ceasefire agreement signed between the