Morten B. Pedersen

Morten B. Pedersen
Biography
Publications

Dr Morten B. Pedersen is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of New South Wales Canberra (Australian Defence Force Academy) and a former senior analyst for the International Crisis Group in Myanmar.

He has been working on Myanmar politics and development affairs for more than 20 years and has served as a policy adviser to the Australian government, the United Nations, the European Commission, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari, among others.

His major publications include A Good Office: Twenty Years of UN Mediation in Myanmar (International Peace Institute, 2012), with Sofia Busch; Principled Engagement: Negotiating Human Rights in Pariah States (Ashgate, 2013), with David Kinley; and The Rohingya Crisis, Myanmar, and R2P ‘Black Holes’  (Global Responsibility to Protect, 2021).

Myanmar: If sanctions aren’t the solution, what is?
Myanmar: If sanctions aren’t the solution, what is?
The local population invariably pays the price for financial punishment of the regime. So better for the world to directly support communities instead.
Outrage is not a policy: Coming to terms with Myanmar’s fragmented state
Analyses
Outrage is not a policy: Coming to terms with Myanmar’s fragmented state
To remain relevant to Myanmar’s future development, the West should support parallel state-building in liberated areas.
Myanmar: Julie Bishop an inspired choice as UN Special Envoy
Myanmar: Julie Bishop an inspired choice as UN Special Envoy
She has status and networks, and comes from a country dedicated to peace and pragmatism.
No safe return for Rohingya refugees
No safe return for Rohingya refugees
A larger struggle over the “soul” of the Myanmar state and society greatly limits the scope for international influence.
Helping the UN help Myanmar
Helping the UN help Myanmar
The new UN Special Envoy on Myanmar must look beyond the Rohingya refugee crisis.
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