Dr Cecile Medail is a senior research officer at ANU’s Myanmar Research Centre. Her research interests include democratisation, identity politics and social movements, with a specific focus on Myanmar, where she has been engaged in research and work for over fifteen years. Saw Chit Thet Tun is an independent researcher who has been involved in Myanmar’s peace process since 2013. Since the coup, he has served as a technical advisor for a key ethnic organisation on the issues of federalism, democracy restoration, and the design of a transitional justice strategy.