ပဋိပက္ခအောက်တွင် နေ့စဉ်ဘဝ

The research project is intended to understand the everyday life of Myanmar people who are encountered with armed conflict and various forms of oppressions under military dictatorship Myanmar army and militant rules of different armed groups resisting the junta. This is the ethnographic longitudinal study of Myanmar society from within by documenting lived experiences, everyday practices, social relations, political meanings, and cultural logics across the country’s diverse communities. The research mainly applies the community-based ethnographic method. The notion of “communities” here extends beyond geographically or ethnically bounded groups to include social formations connected through shared political engagements, cultural practices, livelihoods, or other forms of collective life. Importantly, studying Myanmar “from within” does not imply that such research must be conducted exclusively by Myanmar nationals; rather, it emphasizes an approach grounded in close engagement with local contexts, perspectives, and life worlds.

The ordinary people residing in over 20 communities of the country’s fourteen States and Regions are trained as researchers by Nyan Corridor. They are farmers, local schoolteachers and nurses (who engaged civil disobedience movements against 2021 Military Coup), grocery shopkeepers, religious leaders, freelance photographers and journalists. The community ethnographers of Nyan Corridor also have diverse background in terms of ethnicity: Bamar, Chin, Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Mon, Pa O, Rakhine, Rohingya, Ta’ ang and Tavoy.

The trained researchers mainly using participant observation and informal interviews in undertaking community ethnographic research in their communities. The method is also very relevant to the situations with high politically and militarily sensitive areas.

The research work comprised of different works:

1. the regular study of everyday life of over 20 communities titled as Community Experiences and Perceptions of Local Governance and Security. Being started in 2022 June and with regular reporting of every six months, the following reports are the outputs of the work:
   1. 21 Places of Myanmar in One Year (June 2022-June 2023)
   2. Community Experiences and Perceptions of Local Governance and Security (Round 4),
   3. Community Experiences and Perceptions of Local Governance and Security (Round 5)
   4. Community Experiences and Perceptions of Local Governance and Security (Round 6)    
2. Community Experiences and Perceptions of Climate Change During Violent Rupture
3. Everyday Life under Armed Conflicts

In addition to the mentioned research works being public, Nyan Corridor with the initiation of the community ethnographers, have conducted ad hoc studies on 2025 Election of Myanmar. The study however is selectively shared for the sake of security of the researchers and research participants.  

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