Anne Decobert

How political engineering can make health a bridge to peace: lessons from a Primary Health Care Project in Myanmar's border areas.

Anne Décobert, Tom Traill, Si Thura, Adam Richards

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMJ Glob Health

This case study analyses a health project that focused on peacebuilding in addition to service provision, and the impacts of this ..

Spaces of solidarity: Karen activism in the Thailand-Burma borderlands

Anne Decobert

Journal article  |  2022  |  ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW

'I am the Bridge': Brokering Health, Development and Peace in Myanmar's Kayin State

Anne Decobert

Journal article  |  2021  |  ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Borderland brokers can play a key role in shaping processes of socio-political change within contexts of ongoing ‘political unsett..

Myanmar’s human rights crisis justifies foregoing neutrality for a solidarity-based approach to humanitarianism

Anne Décobert

Journal article  |  2021  |  Melbourne Asia Review

Is the military coup in Myanmar the death knell of democracy and federalism?

Michael Breen, Anne Decobert

Journal article  |  2021  |  Melbourne Asia Review

Partnerships for Universal Health Coverage in Myanmar: Power and Politics within 'Immunisation Encounters' in Kayah State and Kayin State

Anne Decobert

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasise the importance of partnerships in achieving targets like Universal Health Cover..

From Toilet Paper Wars to #ViralKindness? COVID-19, Solidarity and the Basic Income Debate in Australia

Anne Decobert

Journal article  |  2020  |  Anthropology in Action

By examining seemingly contradictory reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and relating these to the basic income debate in Australia..

Interpretive Complexity and Crisis: the History of International Aid to Myanmar

Anne Décobert, Tamas Wells

Journal article  |  2020  |  The European Journal of Development Research

In the last two decades, Myanmar has gone through profound political changes. Over this time, humanitarian and development interve..

Health as a bridge to peace in Myanmar's Kayin State: 'working encounters' for community development

Anne Decobert

Journal article  |  2020  |  Third World Quarterly

This article explores ‘health as a bridge to peace’ in Myanmar’s Kayin State. It focuses on an Auxiliary Midwife training programm..

'The struggle isn't over': Shifting aid paradigms and redefining 'development' in eastern Myanmar

Anne Decobert

Journal article  |  2020  |  World Development

In recent years, international optimism about Myanmar’s fledgling democratization and peace process has contributed to a shift by ..