{"id":4386,"date":"2019-03-10T14:44:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T08:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/new-eng\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T08:15:39","slug":"youth-led-participatory-research-on-social-cohesion-in-urban-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"YOUTH-LED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH ON SOCIAL COHESION IN URBAN AREAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INTRODUCTION <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Myanmar\u2019s youth have long contributed to political change <\/strong>and continue to be drivers of social cohesion and peacebuilding in their communities. With Myanmar transitioning towards a democratic and civilian-led government in 2011, young people are facing new multifaceted changes and challenges in the evolving socio-political context. The opening of the economy, increased access to information and media, and greater transportation infrastructure are creating new opportunities for young people\u2019s development \u2013 but also pose additional challenges for social harmony and building peace.<\/p>\n<p>An ongoing but fragile national peace process between the government, political parties, military (Tatmadaw), and Myanmar\u2019s multiple ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) is shadowed by emerging intercommunal sub-national conflicts. The youth-led research commissioned by Search for Common Ground (SFCG) will build upon and contribute to an emerging field of research and programming related to youth and peace in the country, in particular highlighting youth voices from contested areas of conflict and violence in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SFCG_Youth-led_Research-on-Social-Cohesion_Myanmar_Grizelj-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SFCG_Youth-led_Research on Social Cohesion_Myanmar_Grizelj-Final (opens in a new tab)\">SFCG_Youth-led_Research on Social Cohesion_Myanmar_Grizelj-Final<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SFCG-Youth-Policy-Workshop-Report-18Dec2018-Ext-final-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SFCG-Youth-Policy-Workshop-Report-18Dec2018-Ext final (opens in a new tab)\">SFCG-Youth-Policy-Workshop-Report-18Dec2018-Ext final<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burmese Version<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Final-Youth-Policy-Myanmar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Final Youth Policy Myanmar (opens in a new tab)\">Final Youth Policy Myanmar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SFCG_Youth-led-Research_Myanmar_Summary-MM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SFCG_Youth-led Research_Myanmar_Summary - MM (opens in a new tab)\">SFCG_Youth-led Research_Myanmar_Summary \u2013 MM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTRODUCTION Myanmar\u2019s youth have long contributed to political change and continue to be drivers of social cohesion and peacebuilding in their communities. With Myanmar transitioning towards a democratic and civilian-led government in 2011, young people are facing new multifaceted changes and challenges in the evolving socio-political context. The opening of the economy, increased access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}