쿠데타 이후 미얀마 군사평의회의 통치전략과 소수종족무장단체(EAO)의 대응: 평화협상을 중심으로 = Ruling Strategy of the Myanmar Military Junta and the Response of the Ethnic Armed Organizations after the Coup: Focusing on the Peace-Building Negotiation

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this paper is to firstly retrospect on the assessments of the peace-building negotiations led by the military junta, by deriving the organic and intrinsic relationship between the State Administration Council(SAC) and Ethnic Armed Organizations(EAOs) that emerged in the peace-building negotiations. Furthermore, it also intends to prospect the future of peace-building negotiations by verifying each EAO’s response and requirements to the SAC’s strategies on the peace-building negotiations.
Since independence, the political landscape of Myanmar has been propelled on the majority ethnic Burman, and minority ethnic groups have been subject to oppression or forcefully integration by the Burman-centered government. Minority ethnic groups have also organized armed organizations in order to pursue autonomy within the Union or independence from the Union that made keep on confronting to the government until now because of those behaviors.
However, it starts a change in the bloc’s confrontation, as the some EAOs have joined into the anti-military front after the coup. Based on this situation, this paper focuses on the behaviorism of the EAO, of which not only in the sense of having armed forces but a third actor may be the main actor of substantial social change. In the paper, peace talks which have been held since the coup will be selected as a decisive case of analysis. This paper examines whether EAOs will be able to become a crucial actor who could drive changes in the current situation, as understanding of the current situation in Myanmar, which is under de facto the civil war, and the political dynamics among the actors.

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