Drugs & Conflict in Burma
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Tackle Burma's Drugs Problem
Policy priorities should focus on how best to manage and reduce the many health and social harms associated with the reality of a persistent and ever changing drugs market.
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About Drugs & Conflict in Burma
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Financing Dispossession
China’s opium crop substitution programme has very little to do with providing mechanisms to decrease reliance on poppy cultivation or provide alternative livelihoods for ex-poppy growers. Financing dispossession is not development.
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Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle
Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. This report casts serious doubts on the claim noting that Southeast Asia suffers from a variety of 'withdrawal symptoms' that leave little reason for optimism.
Articles
The first forum of growers of crops declared illicit in Southeast Asia
South East Asian and South Asian growers have a long way to go before they will be given the chance to contribute meaningfully to drug policy processes.
Obstacles Ahead in Burma’s Opium War
“There is no silver bullet,” Tom Kramer, a political scientist for the think tank Transnational Institute (TNI) told TIME. “The root cause is poverty. Access to health, education — if this is not addressed, you will not solve the problem.”
Tackle Burma's Drugs Problem
Policy priorities should focus on how best to manage and reduce the many health and social harms associated with the reality of a persistent and ever changing drugs market.
Suu Kyi’s release far from certain
The Burmese elections will be the most defining moment in Burmese politics for a generation, but Aung San Suu Kyi's rumoured possibility of release is still uncertain.
Harvesting trees to make ecstasy drug
In June 2008, the Cambodian government set up a media show, burning 1,278 drums of safrole-rich oil—a key ingredient in the manufacture of the illicit recreational drug ecstasy—with the help of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The amount of...
Withdrawal symptoms for Golden Triangle drug trade
Drugs and Conflict in Burma
Burma
Burma/Myanmar is undergoing yet another humanitarian crisis while entering a new critical...
A Downward Spiral
The only viable and humane approach to reduce opium production may require easing the opium ban deadlines, while creating alternative livelihoods for opium farmers.
Publications
Financing Dispossession
China’s opium crop substitution programme has very little to do with providing mechanisms to decrease reliance on poppy cultivation or provide alternative livelihoods for ex-poppy growers. Financing dispossession is not development.
Ending Burma’s Conflict Cycle?
Peace does not just involve the government and ethnic armed opposition groups, but involves all of Burma's citizens.
Amphetamine Type Stimulants and Harm Reduction
Little is known about the methamphetamine market in East and Southeast Asia, but there are strong indications that the situation is deteriorating with substances becoming stronger, methods of use more harmful and the number of users steadily...
Estimulantes de tipo anfetamínico y reducción de daños
Poco se sabe sobre el mercado de la metanfetamina en Asia oriental y sudoriental, pero hay fuertes indicios de que la situación se está deteriorando con sustancias cada vez más fuertes, métodos de consumo más perjudiciales y el creciente número...
Burma's Cease-fires at Risk
In August the Burma army occupied the Kokang region after several days of fighting, ending two decades of cease-fire with the ethnic minority group. The resumption of fighting in northern Burma raises speculation about the other cease-fires....
Burma: Neither War Nor Peace
Whilst a twenty year ceasefire still holds, there is unlikely to be peace and democracy in Burma without a political settlement that addresses ethnic minority needs and goals.
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Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle
Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. This report casts serious doubts on the claim noting that Southeast Asia suffers from a variety of 'withdrawal...
Withdrawal Symptoms Briefing
This TNI briefing aims at contributing to a better understanding of current market dynamics in Southeast Asia, essential for designing more effective and sustainable policy responses consistent with human rights and harm reduction principles....
The United Wa State Party
This monograph argues that although the United Wa State Party (UWSP) has been branded by the international community as a "narco-trafficking army;' the organization has an ethnic nationalist agenda whose aim is to build a Wa state within Burma....
HIV/AIDS and Drug Use in Burma/Myanmar
The increasing number of injecting drug users (IDUs) and the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Burma presents one of the most serious health threats to the population in the country, and also to the region at large....
