Outputs (4)

Integrated Approaches to Addressing Drugs and Development Challenges in Myanmar’s Borderlands (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Meehan, P. Integrated Approaches to Addressing Drugs and Development Challenges in Myanmar’s Borderlands. Geneva

Policymakers have placed growing weight on the importance of integrated approaches for tackling complex development challenges. There have also been increased calls to focus attention and resources on addressing the specific challenges posed by borde... Read More about Integrated Approaches to Addressing Drugs and Development Challenges in Myanmar’s Borderlands.

Precarity, poverty and poppy: Encountering development in the uplands of Shan State, Myanmar (2020)
Journal Article
Meehan, P. (2021). Precarity, poverty and poppy: Encountering development in the uplands of Shan State, Myanmar. International Journal of Drug Policy, 89, Article 103064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103064

In recent years there have been growing calls for “development-oriented drug policies” to tackle illicit drug cultivation in the global South. Calls to integrate drugs and development have been important in demonstrating the damage caused by the war... Read More about Precarity, poverty and poppy: Encountering development in the uplands of Shan State, Myanmar.

Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Uneven Development and Ongoing Armed Conflict (2020)
Book Chapter
Lertchavalitsakul, B., & Meehan, P. Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Uneven Development and Ongoing Armed Conflict. In A. Simpson, & N. Farrelly (Eds.), Myanmar : Politics, Economy and Society. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429024443-17

Attempts to assert control over the country’s borderlands have been a central dynamic of the statebuilding agendas of successive governments in Myanmar, albeit a deeply conflictual one in light of the fact that the power and legitimacy of the state h... Read More about Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Uneven Development and Ongoing Armed Conflict.

Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding (2020)
Report
Goodhand, J., Meehan, P., Thomson, F., Ghiabi, M., & Ball, L. Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding

Voices from the borderlands 2020 is the flagship publication of Drugs & (dis)order, a four year research project generating new evidence on how to transform illicit drug economies into peace economies. It aims to bring to light some of the experience... Read More about Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding.