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Resistance and Reclamation: A study of joint CSO / local group efforts to contest land grabs in Myanmar’s rural communities

ຈັດພິມໂດຍ: Open Development Myanmar

This research in Ayeyawaddy and Kachin suggests that trainings on knowledge about new laws and policies pertaining to land issues can be used by regional CSOs in partnership with local farmer and fisher groups to successfully advocate to government (and other relevant parties) for the reclamation of previously grabbed land. Local groups can also use this legal knowledge as part of protection strategies, as reflected in successful applications for communal forests and lands. However, while knowledge of the law itself is necessary, it is not sufficient – it must be used instrumentally as part of a coordinated set of tactics deployed by the CSOs and the local groups. These include letter ­writing, negotiations, and even protests; these actions are directed at institutions at various ‘levels’ of government and at various spheres of society (including the private sector). Moreover, the new legal environment also creates new vulnerabilities, as those local farmers and fishers without the ability to successfully comprehend and manoeuvre the new laws risk becoming ‘legally’ dispossessed.

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ເບິ່ງຕົວຢ່າງຂໍ້ມູນ - ခုခံခြင်းနှင့် ပြန်လည်ပိုင်ဆိုင်ခွင့်ရရှိခြင်း- မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိကျေးရွာဒေသများ၌ မြေယာသိမ်းဆည်းမှုများအပေါ် ပြည်သူ့အခြေပြုအဖွဲအစည်းများနှင့် ဒေသခံများမှ ခုံခံကြိုးပမ်းပြောဆိုမှုများအားလေ့လာခြင်း

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ປະເພດເອກະສານ Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
ພາສາຂອງເອກະສານ
  • ອັງກິດ
ຫົວຂໍ້ Expropriation
ພື້ນທີ່ພູມສັນຖານ (ຂອບເຂດພື້ນທີ່)
  • ມຽນມາ
ລິຂະສິດ To be determined
ສະບັບທີ / ຄັ້ງທີ 1.3
ສັນຍາລິຂະສິດ Creative Commons Attribution
ຜູ້ຂຽນ (ອົງການຈັດຕັ້ງ) LCG
ຜູ້ຂຽນຮ່ວມ (ບຸກຄົນ) Elliott Prasse-Freeman
ປີຈັດພິມ 2016
ຄຳສັບຫຼັກ Land Grabbing
ວັນທີອັບໂຫຼດ ຕຸລາ 12, 2018, 07:30 (UTC)
ວັນທີດັດແປງ ຕຸລາ 6, 2020, 04:16 (UTC)