This dissertation explores border relationships, conflicts and cooperation between Thailand and its four contiguous neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Myanmar) from 1973 to 2011. The dissertation probes the following questions: What causes border conflict? Why do some of th…
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The historian of Southeast Asian Buddhism faces many questions regarding Buddhist identity. Using the case study of Arakan (western Burma), two critical questions are pursued in this dissertation: why did Theravada Buddhism emerge as a religious identity for the majority of Arak…
The Kuki-Chin languages constitute one of the most important subgroups of the great Tibeto-Burman family. This dissertation attempts to reconstruct the sound system of the ancestor language, Proto-Kuki-Chin, by comparing the initial consonants, rhymes, and nominal tones of a lar…
This dissertation explores the ways in which the ethnic identity of South Asia's Parsis was forged through litigation in the British colonial courts. The Parsis were Zoroastrians who fled to India after the seventh-century conquest of Persia by Arab Muslims. Under British rule, …
A quantitative risk assessment (QRA) study was conducted in the Malaysia-Thailand-Myanmar (MTM) peninsular to assess the likelihood of an introduction of FMD through importation of livestock. The simulation yielded the most-likely prevalence at 8%. On average, each livestock in …
The purpose of this paper is to develop systematically an in-depth understanding of the tlawmngaihna worldview to work toward a critical transformation of the church and society. The second objective is to create a new way of theologizing that is consistent with biblical and the…
This thesis provides a consonantal comparison of the Burmese, Rakhine and Marma languages of Myanmar and Bangladesh, with primary focus on initial and medial consonants. Its main purposes are to provide new data from the Rakhine and Marma languages of Bangladesh and to make some…
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the human rights violations against one minority group in Myanmar – the Rohingya – by the majority Buddhist Rakhinese population with central government support, in order to call the international community to pursue immediate, cohesive diplo…
When the military took over the government in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) and in Indonesia three decades ago, both countries were classified as low-income nations. In the 1990s, before the outbreak of the current Asian financial crisis, Indonesia was rapidly expanding her …
This thesis investigates the current composition of traditional settlements located in and around the remains of the ancient, walled and moated, regal-ritual epicenter of Bagan, Myanmar. This study also provides some suggestions as to strategies that may be employed by future se…
Burma/Myanmar, a country with a long history of brutal military dictatorships, was for decades a hostile environment for mass contention. Nonetheless, large-scale protests, as part of the Burmese urban pro-democracy movement, still emerged through the years. So what accounts for…
Many developing countries with heterogeneous tribal, ethnic, and/or linguistic populations face a unique form of violence motivated by a desire to secede from the central state and form a new state, known as separatism. Motivated by a strong cultural identity and a sense of oppr…
Since the resurgence of Rakhine State's conflict in 2017, and the resulting 750,000 refugees, Myanmar has received increased scrutiny by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). However, some of Myanmar's ethnic conflicts have been continuous since independence in 1948, and t…