What's Happening in Myanmar20 Dec 2024

Mental Health, Addiction, & Conflict

With Ramona Drosner, Swiss journalist who completed a fellowship at Frontier, and Su Mon, Senior Analyst for the Asia-Pacific at the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. This week on What's Happening in Myanmar, the Western Regional Military Command has fallen to the Arakan Army, mental health and addiction are being managed by communities on the Thailand border, and we do a review of conflict in the country for the year 2024.

Email the show at whimyanmar@proton.me

Timecodes—

1m11s :: Weekly news digest
3m55s :: Mental health & addiction
17m26s :: Conflict in 2024
30m50s :: Close

Our guests—

Ramona Drosner, Swiss journalist who completed a fellowship at Frontier:

The damage done: Fighting drug addiction inside Thailand's largest refugee camp
Healing wounds: How communities are tackling trauma in post-coup Myanmar

Su Mon, Senior Analyst for the Asia Pacific at the Armed Location and Event Data Project.

And here is a list of Burmese language mental health resources—

စိတ်လွင်ပြင်, a podcast where Myanmar celebrities in exile receive call-ins and provide advice to people going through hard times

Counselling Corner, an organisation providing counselling, family and group therapy

MHPSS Working Group, a network aiming to facilitate sustainable coordination between support services in Myanmar

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