The Myanmar Crisis What Next for Malaysia as ASEAN Chair 2025

19 Sept 2024
2:30 PM
Asia-Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya

The Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, invites four panelists to discuss the ongoing Myanmar crisis and civil war since the military coup of 1 February 2021. The United Nations estimates that there are 3.3 million displaced individuals from Myanmar. Today, Malaysia is ASEAN’s largest host of close to 170,000 refugees and asylum seekers. ASEAN’s engagement with Myanmar through its Five-Point Consensus (5PC) calling for cessation of hostilities, dialogue with internal stakeholders through its Special Envoy and humanitarian assistance through an ASEAN channel has seen little progress.

The panelists will discuss what Malaysia, as Chair of ASEAN in 2025, could and should bring to bear on the Myanmar crisis. In so doing, they will discuss the shortcomings of the 5PC and offer new pathways to address the Myanmar impasse from the perspective of multi-track engagements, the internal dynamics and conflict resolution within Myanmar, and dealing with the dire humanitarian crisis.

Panellists:

Ms. Moe Thuzar, Senior Fellow, ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute
Ms. Lilianne Fan, Joint Head of Secretariat, Malaysian Advisory Group on Myanmar
Prof. Dr. Francis Kok-Wah Loh, formerly of Universiti Sains Malaysia
Prof. Dr. Johan Saravanamuttu, Professor Emeritus of Universiti Sains Malaysia; Adjunct Professor, Asia Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya
Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Roy Anthony Rogers, Deputy Executive Director (Development, Research, & Innovation), Asia-Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya

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