Can Myanmar Move Forward?

Hosted by: AIIA ACT Branch

The event will start on: Tuesday, 01 March 2011 12:30 PM

And will end on: Tuesday, 01 March 2011 1:45 PM

At Stephen House, Canberra

32 Thesiger Court, Deakin , Canberra ACT

02 6232 4978     act.branch@aiia.asn.au

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Mr Wilson will address the changes that have taken place in Myanmar since the November 2010 elections, how real those changes are, what changes have not occurred, and what could, or should, the international community be doing about this.

Trevor Wilson retired in August 2003 after more than thirty-six years as a member of the Australian foreign service, the last fifteen as a member of the Senior Executive Service, after serving as Australian Ambassador to Myanmar (2000-03). Since October 2003 he has been a Visiting Fellow on Myanmar/Burma at the Department of Political and Social Change, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, Australian National University.

 Since 2004, Trevor Wilson has been co-convener of the Myanmar/Burma Update conference series at the Australian National University. He has (co)-edited four volumes of the conference papers, Myanmar’s Long Road to National Reconciliation (ISEAS 2006); and, with Monique Skidmore, Myanmar: the state, community and the environment (Asia Pacific Press, 2007); and Dictatorship, disorder and decline in Myanmar (ANU E-Press, 2008); and with Monique Skidmore and Nick Cheesman, Ruling Myanmar From Cyclone Nargis to National Elections (ISEAS 2010) based on the 2009 Myanmar/Burma Update. With David Kinley, he co-authored a case study of Australia’s human rights training in Myanmar ‘Engaging a pariah: Human rights training in Burma/Myanmar’ (Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 29 No. 2, May 2007). He has written numerous opinion pieces and given many interviews about the situation in Myanmar/Burma.