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Our role at the Bush Institute is to focus on policy, not politics, and proffer solutions to the challenges we are facing today and into the future. That includes ongoing coverage and content that addresses the military coup in Burma.

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Read the article Liberty and Leadership Program Scholar on U.S. ruling that violence against Rohingya people amounts to genocide.
Mar 23, 2022

Liberty and Leadership Program Scholar on U.S. ruling that violence against Rohingya people amounts to genocide

This week, the Biden administration determined that violence committed against the Rohingya people by Burma's military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity. Liberty and Leadership Program Scholar Wai Wai Nu, Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Peace Network, reacts to the ruling and discusses next steps she would like to see from the U.S. and international community.
Read the article By Leaving Burma, International Gas Giants Show Ethical Leadership.
Feb 4, 2022

By Leaving Burma, International Gas Giants Show Ethical Leadership

By: Sarah Gibbons
In a recent op-ed , Kenneth Hersh, President and CEO of the Bush Center, writes that TotalEnergies and Chevron’s announcement that they’re exiting Burma to protest human rights abuses against Burmese civilians is the private sector equivalent of economic sanctions, and it was the right thing to do.
Read the article Q&A with Dr. Nay Lin Tun.
Apr 27, 2021

Q&A with Dr. Nay Lin Tun

By: Michael Bailey
Bush Institute Liberty and Leadership Scholar Dr. Nay Lin Tun tells us what it's like being a medical professional in Burma right now.
Read the article As history repeats itself.
Apr 13, 2021

As history repeats itself

Thelma tun thein, Country Facilitator for the Bush Institute’s Liberty and Leadership Program, shares her recent experience in Burma during the military coup. Thelma was born in Burma and raised in Thailand. She is a proud naturalized Texan and American citizen.