What's Happening in Myanmar26 Sep 2025

Rethinking Aid as Sweden Drops Out

With Dustin Barter and Stella Naw, two co-authors of a new ODI report on humanitarianism and revolutionary state-building in Myanmar. This week on episode 46 of What's Happening in Myanmar, the resistance takes Banmauk, a Kachin Independence Army camp is hit with a precision airstrike, rights organisations react to Sweden ceasing development aid, and we discuss why international donors and humanitarian actors should engage with the new "pluralistic state" of Myanmar.

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Timecodes—

01m19s :: News roundup
02m41s :: With Stella Naw & Dustin Barter, an aid rethink
16m21s :: The pluralistic state
25m54s :: Risk aversion and risk taking for aid
33m17s :: Recommendations for resistance
40m56s :: Close

Our guests—

Dustin Barter, Senior Research Fellow in the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI Global

Stella Naw, academic activist working on Indigenous and decolonial peacebuilding and governance practices

And the reports under discussion:

Making Myanmar: humanitarianism amid revolutionary state-building
Sweden ends development aid to Myanmar, abandoning media and civil society

Plus, new original content on the Frontier website:

Viral justice: Social media and the court of public opinion
The perils of abortion for Myanmar women
Seeking solidarity for Myanmar in a cruel world

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