Burma's Saffron Revolution - Next Steps

The U.S. Institute of Peace and Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) cordially invite you to a public event on:

Burma's Saffron Revolution - Next Steps

Date: Thursday, October 11, 2007

Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Location: Johns Hopkins University/SAIS, Auditorium- Rome Building
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Overview

Forty-five years of military rule have left Burma in a state of arrested political and economic development, largely without the means to break free of the military's stranglehold and build the foundations of stable, viable democracy. Drawing from a study and observations of conditions before and during the cataclysmic events this August-September, discussion will center on the impact of the saffron revolution protests on the regime domestically and the effectiveness of different forms of international engagement on bringing about change. Five panelists with different backgrounds focus on the critical question, "What is to be done?"

Speakers

Priscilla Clapp
Former U.S. Charge d'Affaires, Burma

Carla Freeman
China Studies, Johns Hopkins-SAIS

Keith Luse
Senate Foregn Relations Committee

Bo Hla Tint
National League for Democracy (NLD) MP-Elect, Minister, Office of the Prime Minister (USA), National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB)

Bridget Welsh
Southeast Asia Studies, Johns Hopkins-SAIS

Eugene Martin, Moderator
U.S. Institute of Peace

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