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Development Zones in Conflict-Affected Borderlands: The Case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar (2021)
Book Chapter
Meehan, P., Aung Hla, S., & Kham Phu, S. (2021). Development Zones in Conflict-Affected Borderlands: The Case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. In M. Chettri, & M. Eilenberg (Eds.), Development Zones in Asian Borderlands. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463726238_ch06

How are development zones “made” in conflict-affected borderlands? Addressing this question, this chapter explores the transformation of the Myanmar-China border town of Muse since 1988. Despite ongoing armed conflict in northern Myanmar, Muse has be... Read More about Development Zones in Conflict-Affected Borderlands: The Case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar.

The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar. Part one: Origins and reactions (2021)
Journal Article
Dan, S. L., Maran, J. H. P., Sadan, M., Meehan, P., & Goodhand, J. (2021). The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar. Part one: Origins and reactions. International Journal of Drug Policy, 89, Article 103181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103181

This commentary provides an introduction to the origins and emergence of Pat Jasan, a social movement that emerged amongst the Kachin population of northern Myanmar in response to a perceived crisis of illicit drug production and consumption. Althoug... Read More about The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar. Part one: Origins and reactions.

Myanmar: Why peace remains elusive (2021)
Digital Artefact
Meehan, P. (2021). Myanmar: Why peace remains elusive. [MP3]

After decades of military rule, Myanmar’s 2010 General Election appeared to be a watershed moment and inspired hopes that Myanmar was embarking upon what the World Bank dubbed as a ‘triple transition’: from authoritarian military rule to democratic g... Read More about Myanmar: Why peace remains elusive.

Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma (2021)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., Meehan, P., Bhatia, J., Ghiabi, M., & Gutierrez Sanin, F. (2021). Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma. International Journal of Drug Policy, 89, Article 103115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103115

Recent years have seen the emergence of a policy consensus around the need for fundamental reforms of global drug policies. This is reflected in the call for ‘development-oriented drug policies’ that align and integrate drug policies with development... Read More about Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma.

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.