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Visiting Research Fellows 2015-16
Winter Term 2016
Dr. Abdo Ali Abdullah Al-Bahesh is research scholar and writer in the
field of politics, human rights, history, Middle Eastern studies and Media.
He received a BA degree in Media from the University of Baghdad, Iraq,
in 1999 and an MA degree in Political and International Studies from Al-
Mustanseriah University, Iraq, in 2004. He received his PhD in Mass
Communication and Journalism from the University of Mysore, India, in
2009. He is currently working as a Chairperson of the Department of
Political Studies and Research in the Yemen Center for Studies and Research in Sana'a,
Yemen, where he has been appointed as senior research scholar in 2009. He is very interested
in conducting research in Middle Eastern studies, with special focus on Yemen. His main
research interest is in the field of history, political conflict, ideological conflict between Islamic
groups, human rights, genocide and war crimes, crimes against humanity, peace and
development and other issues of the Middle East. He has teaching experience. He was Lecturer
at the University of Modern Sciences in Yemen for three years between 2009 and 2011 and
Lecturer at the University of Future in Yemen for two years between 2010 and 2011.
Dr. Gholamreza Jafari is faculty member at the Physics and Cognitive
Science Department of Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. He
earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran,
Iran in 2005. His research focuses in general on the field of complex
systems. Currently he is researching on the following topics: complex
network dynamics and collective behavior and their application in social
and economic problems and cognitive science; data analysis, criticality,
coupled systems analysis, fractional calculus.
Dr. Grace Bosibori Nyamongo is Research Associate/Lecturer at the
African Women's Studies Centre at the University of Nairobi. She was
awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue PhD studies and in
2009 received her PhD in Women's Studies from York University. In
November - December 2009 she was GEXCel Scholar at Linkoping
University in Sweden. In 2009 - 2010 she was Assistant Professor at
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. In 2011 - 2012 she was
lecturer at Kenyatta University. She has and continues to supervise several postgraduate
students' research projects and theses. She has published various articles in the areas of
gender, politics and African sexuality. Her research interests include women and work, violence
against women and girls and other vulnerable groups, gender issues, and African sexuality. She
has also worked as an independent consultant for the African Development Bank (AFBD) on
Higher Education Science and Technology (HEST) – Gender and Labour market dynamics in
Uganda. In the area of transformative advocacy she is actively engaged in the sensitization of
rural people, and mentoring the youth on issues including poverty eradication strategies,
HIV/AIDS, education, FGM and conflict resolution among others. Dr. Grace Bosibori Nyamongo
is hosted by the CEU Department of Gender Studies.
Dr. Jose Pablo Prado Cordova is a tenured lecturer at Universidad de
San Carlos in Guatemala, where he teaches social sciences and rural
development to first year students at the Faculty of Agronomy. His
research interest is in political ecology as such an overarching approach
to environmental problems gives him the chance to navigate between
both social and biophysical sciences. He is also very interested in
exploring the human condition and, above all, how people came to be
what they are as citizens, nature appropriators, subjects and free
thinkers. At this point of his career he decided to devote a significant amount of time to write
down his ideas about these topics and delve into the particulars of environmental ethics in the
process. Earlier he has spent a great deal of time as a volunteer with the YMCA of Guatemala.
Dr. Vo Van Dut is lecturer and researcher at the Department of
International Business, the College of Economics, Can Tho University,
Vietnam, where he obtained his bachelor degree. Vo Van Dut has been
awarded the PhD title in 2014 from the University of Groningen, the
Netherlands. He received master degree (MSc) in International
Economics and Business in 2007 and the master by research degree
(Mphil) of International Business in 2009 at the same university. His PhD
project focused on subsidiary decision-making autonomy in multinational enterprises. His
research interests are in the field of international business, SMEs and cooperate governance.
His current works have been published in peer-reviewed journals like International Business
Review, Asian Academy of Management Journal, Problems and Perspectives in Management.
Vo Van Dut has also visited several times the Halle Institute for Economic Research during his
PhD project. His current interest stems from his ambition to understand how cultural distance
affects MNE subsidiary's access to local complementary assets and how subsidiary's forward
and backward linkages impact its innovation.
Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman is assistant professor at the
Department of Philosophy, Section of Medieval Studies, Faculty of Arts
at the University of Beni Suef, Egypt. Interested mainly in medieval
Christian philosophy and theology, he wrote his master degree thesis
on the philosophy of law and politics of Marsillius of Padua under the
supervision of professors Ismat Nassar, Christian van Nispen and Jean
Pierre Courtess. The title of his PhD dissertation was “The theology of
Saint Anselm of Canterbury” and he wrote it under the supervision of
professors Ismat Nassar, Catarina Bello, Joseph D'Amecourt and Ermis
Segatti. His field of interests and scientific research focus is on the study of the Bible, patristic
theology and interreligious dialogue. He is also teaching history of religions, metaphysics and
philosophy of religion. He speaks modern standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, English, French
and Modern Greek. He has a good knowledge of Hebrew, ancient Greek and Latin. He
participated in many international conferences focusing on the common understanding and
mutual values between Christianity and Islam. He works now on the hermeneutics of the
translation of the New Testament from byzantine Greek into modern standard Arabic. He is
totally engaged in studying the phenomenology of religions and their interpretations among
people, giving more importance to religion as natural source for love and peace.
Myanmar fellows
Dr. Khin Khin Oo, an Associate Professor at the Department of Law,
University of Yangon (Myanmar), received her LLB (1993), LLM (1997),
and PhD in Law (2005) degrees from University of Yangon. Her
teaching career started at Dagon University’s Law Department and
subsequently taught at a number of Myanmar universities’ law
departments under the cadre transfer system of the Ministry of
Education. Her area of specialization is civil law - studying and teaching
criminal law, civil law, family law and constitutional law. Her teaching subjects are Criminal and
Civil Law and procedures, Law of Evidence, Law of Insurance, Law of Business Organizations
and different branches of commercial law at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and Diploma
level. She was one of the leaders of a research group for drafting National Education Law and
core member of drafting Committee for Small and Medium Enterprises Development Law and
Myanmar Industrial Zone Law. She published on issues of Myanmar Customary Law, especially
on children’s rights and matrimonial rights, and on Constitutional Tribunal of Myanmar in
academic journals in Myanmar. In 2014, Dr. Khin Khin Oo won an award for the best paper in
Law at the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science, the most honored academic research
institution in Myanmar. The field of her current research is constitutional adjudication systems of
different countries and different legal systems, where she aims to produce recommendations on
modernizing Myanmar’s constitutional review legislation. She was a research student at the
International Institute for the Rights of the Child (Sion, Switzerland, 2004), a visiting research
fellow at National University of Singapore (2014), and an ISEF fellow at Seoul National
University (2014). She is hosted by the CEU Department of Legal Studies. E-mail:
Dr. Mo Mo Thant is a Professor and Head of History Department at the
Yangon University of Distance Education (Myanmar). She attained her
BA (1984) and MA (1990) degrees from Mandalay University and a
PhD at the University of Yangon (2002). She is a member of the
Governing Board of SEAMEO CHAT: Regional Centre for History and
Tradition. Her research area is Social history, in particular religion in
Myanmar, with a special interest in women and religion. She has nine
publications in the research journals of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science, Yangon
University of Distance Education and SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition and
five international publications including at the University of Passau, Germany, at the Centre for
Bharat studies in Mahidol University in Thailand and at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies
in Korea. She has authored textbooks and references for secondary schools, as well as texts
and study guides for the distance education students on Myanmar Social History and History of
the United States. She frequently presents on different history topics on the dedicated education
channel of MRTV. She has supervised MA and PhD dissertations and served as an external
examiner at Yangon and Mandalay Universities and the National Defence College in Nay Pyi
Taw. She was a DAAD Visiting Research Fellow at the Comparative Religion Department at
Bonn University, Germany. Dr. Mo Mo Thant is hosted by the CEU Department of Gender
Studies. E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Nyein Nyein San Ei is an Associate Professor at the Department of
International Relations at Yadanabon University, Myanmar, until
recently she taught at Mandalay University. She received a BA (Honors)
Degree in International Relations in 1994, an MA Degree in 1998 and a
PhD Degree in 2007 – all from Mandalay University in central Myanmar.
She took further qualifications in English from the Mandalay University
of Foreign Languages in 2005. While at Mandalay University, she
taught Political Institutions, Post-World War II IR, Political Culture, Political Executives and
Leadership, Global Governance, Global Environmental Issues, Regional Integration,
International Organization and the UN and Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention. She
has supervised PhD candidates in the fields of comparative studies of EU and ASEAN, security,
Myanmar- Bangladesh Relations and comparative study of Myanmar and Vietnam. Her PhD
research focused on the issues of maritime security in Southeast Asia (1967-2004). Her special
interest is in the field of security and strategy, particularly maritime security. Her research at
CEU explores the issues of maritime piracy in Southeast Asia in the context of international
cooperation. Dr Nyein Nyein San Ei is hosted by the CEU Department of International Relations
and European Studies where, in addition to her research, she plans to develop a new course on
Non-Conventional Security Issues in International Relations for her home Department of
International Relations at Yadanabon University. E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Ohn Mar Khin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Law,
University of Yangon, Myanmar. She received an LLB in 1993, an LLM
(International Law) in 1997, and a PhD (Law of Insurance) in 2005 from
the University of Yangon. Her teaching career started at the University of
Yangon in 1998. She presently teaches at several programs at different
institutions in Myanmar: Master's Program of Law, Diploma in Business
Law, Diploma in Maritime Law and Master's in Business Law at the Department of Law,
University of Yangon; Diploma in Law at Defense Services Administration School in Pyin Oo
Lwin; and Master of Business Management, Diploma in Management and Administration at
Yangon University of Economics. She has supervised theses of Master's students and
dissertation projects of PhD candidates. She was a visiting research fellow at the Korea
Foundation for Advanced Studies at Seoul National University in 2008-2009 and participated in
the course of Constitution Building in Africa at the Summer University at CEU in 2014. Her main
fields of interest are Constitutional Law, Law of Insurance and International Law. Her current
research focuses on the legislative powers in the context of comparing different Constitutions of
Myanmar. Dr. Ohn Mar Khin is hosted by the CEU department of Legal Studies. E-mail:
Dr. Saw Lin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy
at University of Mandalay in Myanmar. In 2003 he was awarded a Ph.D.
scholarship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relation and in 2006
received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the faculty of Arts at Osmania
University in Hyderabad, India. He has been teaching Philosophy in
higher education for over seventeen years. His main fields of interest
include logic, ethics and philosophy of religion, and he has published in
Myanmar on a range of philosophical subjects including the response to euthanasia from the
perspective of Buddhism and the concept of appearance and reality in Western and Eastern
philosophical traditions. His current research focuses on freedom and determinism in the
context of Buddhist Philosophy. Dr. Saw Lin is hosted by the CEU Department of Philosophy. E-
mail: [email protected]
Dr. Thet Yu is a Professor and Head of the International Relations
Department at the Mandalay University of Foreign Languages in upper
Myanmar. She holds a B.A. (Honors, 1992), M.A. (1996) and PhD
(2007) degrees. She started her academic career in 1993 at the
International Relations Department at Mandalay University and has
been teaching courses on Foreign Policy, Political Institutions and
Traditional and Nontraditional Security Issues. She has conducted
research on a variety of subjects covering Myanmar’s foreign policy, current international issues
and Southeast Asian regional affairs resulting in a number of domestic publications. In 2006 she
was an ASEAN Research Scholar at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of
Singapore, where she participated in the ASEAN Graduate Student Forum on Southeast Asian
Studies and presented her research on ICT Policy Development in CLMV Countries. In 2013,
funded by the grant of the Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship Program, she
travelled to the International University of Japan to conduct postdoctoral research on ICT
development in Japan and lessons for Myanmar. Her current research interests are in foreign
policy and traditional and nontraditional security issues. As a visiting research fellow at the CEU
Department of International Relations, she explores the enhancement of Myanmar's foreign
policy engagement with the European Union. E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Thidar Aye, an Associate Professor at the Department of English,
Mandalay University (Myanmar), obtained her Ph.D. degree from the
University of Yangon in 2007. In her Ph.D. dissertation she compares a
variety of themes in the poetry of Emily Dickinson (USA) and Kyi Aye
(Myanmar) - two women poets from two different cultural traditions. Her
areas of interest include women’s literature, research methodology and
translation. She has been teaching for twenty years, in the subjects of
English literature, basic research methodology, and translation and interpretation studies to both
undergraduate and postgraduate students at Yangon University and Mandalay University. She
is an alumna of the Brunei-US English Language Enrichment Program for ASEAN (BUELEP),
and of the Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) program; she also completed a two-year Interpreters’
Training Course conducted by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (Japan) in 2013. Her research
is on the intersection of language and gender, focusing on the novels and short stories written in
English by Myanmar women writers. Dr. Thidar Aye is hosted by the CEU Department of gender
Studies. E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Thidar Htwe Win is a Professor and Head of the Department of
Anthropology, Mandalay University in Myanmar. She obtained her B A
(Honors) in 1993 and a Master’s degree in 1997 from the University of
Yangon. She was selected as a fellow of Asian Youth Fellowship
program sponsored by the Japan Foundation in 2001 and awarded the
Monbukagakushou scholarship in 2002, which allowed her to complete a
PhD degree at Hiroshima University. She has been teaching at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level for 20 years and supervised numerous MA and PhD
students in Anthropology. Her research has focused on ethnic minorities in Myanmar: she
studied social organization of Lahvo group in the Kachin State, and socio-economic life of
Akhar, Wa, Kokant, Naga and Kayan (Padaung) ethnic groups. She completed projects on
Enculturation and Socialization in Japanese Society and on Objectification of Tradition in
Japanese Society: An Anthropological Case Study of Takamiya, Akitakata City in Hiroshima
Prefecture. Her current research explores the linkages among people, land and culture in
Amarapura township (Mandalay); traditional cultures of Bamar village; livelihood of sap-tappers;
she is engaged in research collaboration with Zurich University in Switzerland. Dr. Thidar Htwe
Win is hosted by the CEU Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. E-mail -
Dr. Zaw Soe is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations,
University of Mandalay in Myanmar. He got his first degree BA (Honors)
in 1997 and MA in 2001. He received Master of Research in 2002 and
PhD in 2008. His teaching career began at Mandalay University in 2002.
He teaches a diploma course on political ideology and an undergraduate
course on political institutions and political economy. He also teaches
democratic institutions at the Leadership Training Program for the Junior Military Officers at the
Defense Services Academy in Pyin Oo Lwin. His current research focuses on political
institutions, democracy and democratization, and constitutionalism. At CEU Dr. Zaw Soe is
hosted by the Departments of Political Science and International Relations. E-mail -
Fall and Winter Terms 2015-16
Dr. Ernest Ngeh Tingum is a Cameroonian and holds a PhD in
Economics from the University of Dar es Salaam. Professionally, he is
an economist and researcher who has been working with various
national and international organizations, to mention a few: University of
Dschang (Cameroon), National Polytechnic Cameroon, University of
Dar es Salaam, The Open University of Tanzania and WageIndicator
Foundation in Holland. As an Economist and Lead Specialist with
WageIndicator Foundation based Amsterdam (since August 2011) he
has been involved in a number of activities which include data collection in East and West
African Countries, research and analysis as well as a vast experience on the issues of collective
bargaining in the African labor market. He has been a member of the “Tobacco Control Analysis
and Intervention Evaluation in China and Tanzania” in the Department of Economics since
2013. He is board member of the national NGO Sustainable Holistic Initiatives Organization
(SHIO) based in Morogoro, Tanzania. Currently he is a visiting research fellow at the School of
Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary. His current
research interest is on gender issues, job satisfaction and collective bargaining in the African
labor market.
Fall Term 2015
Dr. Thwin Pa Pa is a Professor and Head of the Department of Law at Mandalay University in
central Myanmar. She holds a Doctor of Law degree in Transnational law and Policy from
Tohoku University (Japan, 2006). She has over 20 years of teaching experience and was
appointed the Head of Department in 2014. Her teaching and main fields of interest cover
Constitutional Law, Business Law, Labor Laws and Land Laws; she received further training
and presented at academic events in India, Italy and, most recently, Sweden. The research area
that Thwin Pa Pa currently focuses on is Constitutional Rights and Rule of Law in Myanmar, and
she is a Fellow at the CEU Department of Legal Studies.
Dr. Myint Thu Myaing is a Professor at the Law Department, University of Yangon in Myanmar.
She received her first law degree in 1985, then an LLM in 1992 and a PhD in 2005 from the
University of Yangon, as well as a Diploma in Management and Administration in 2000 from the
Yangon Institute of Economics. In 2003, she was also awarded an LLM in Intellectual Property
Law from WIPO and Turin University in Italy. Since 1986 she has been teaching at the
University of Yangon, East Yangon University and Mawlamyine University in Mon State in
Southern Myanmar. She teaches full-time LLB and LLM courses, Diploma Course in Business
Law for public servants and professionals, and a PhD preliminary course at the University of
Yangon. She also contributes to the Diploma in Law at Defense Services Administration School
in Pyin Oo Lwin in central Myanmar. Her fields of expertise and research interest are Intellectual
Property Law, International Environmental Law, International Human Rights Law and
Investment Laws. She has been supervising theses of Master's students and dissertation
projects of PhD candidates. Her current research, bringing her as a Fellow to the CEU Legal
Studies Department, focuses on settlement of intellectual property rights related laws and
practices, in light of Myanmar's covenants with WTO, ASEAN and WIPO and is timely for the
needs of legal reforms underway in Myanmar.
Dr. Thida Tun is Professor of International Relations at the University of Mandalay in Myanmar.
She received a BA in 1991, MA in 1997 and PhD in 2007, all from Mandalay University. Her
PhD project focused on the Role of National Unity in the Constitutional Development of
Myanmar (1947- 1974). Since the start of the higher education reform in Myanmar, she has
been working actively in the area of quality assurance, notably in the project focused on the
study and application of the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance model and its
implementation in the ASEAN countries, and a current three-year project on strengthening
capacity of Myanmar universities towards establishing the quality assurance system for
improving the quality of higher education in the Greater Mekong Sub-region countries supported
by the Asian Development Bank. In 2013, with support of the Open Society Foundations, she
represented Myanmar in the Summer Institute "Higher Education Leadership for Tomorrow" at
the University of Hong Kong. Thida Tun is a member of Open Access Policy Working Group and
Secretary of Internal Quality Assurance Committee at Mandalay University. She currently
teaches Introduction to International Relations at the BA program; PhD course in the foreign
policy of Myanmar, as well as Postgraduate Diploma courses in International Relations, Political
Science, Public Policy, Public Opinion and Public Administration. Her fields of research and
PhD supervision are Foreign Policy Analysis, Comparative Constitutions and Public
Administration. At CEU she is working to enrich her current research on the subject of
Administrative Reform in Myanmar.
Dr. Thin Thin Aye is a Professor at the Department of International Relations at Yadanabon
University, a largest undergraduate university in Mandalay, Myanmar. She teaches International
Relations, Political Thought, US Government and Politics, Diplomacy at the undergraduate
program and new subjects of Democracy and Democratization for the Honors and Master's
students. Her own Master's thesis focused on the legacy and impact of the Japanese
occupation on the nationalist movements in Myanmar post-World War II; her PhD research
examined the collaboration between the government of Myanmar and the UN agencies in the
immunization and prevention against child diseases in 1988-2004. Her publications on the
subjects of awareness raising in Myanmar's response to major diseases and development of
ICTs in Myanmar were published by the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Sciences. She
presented on Human Resources Development in Myanmar (1988-2010) at the Asia Pacific
Human Resources Conference in Beijing; more recently on the role of civil society in Myanmar's
democratization at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar in Transition in Chiang Mai,
Thailand. She comes to CEU with a strong interest in the advancement of the civil society actors
and non-governmental organizations as Myanmar embraces democratic practices. She seeks to
enhance her mastery of theories of civil society and research methods as a Fellow at the
Departments of Political Science and International Relations.
Dr. Lwin Lwin Mon is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Yangon
(Myanmar). She holds a BA (Hons), an MA and a Doctorate in Anthropology, as well as MA and
MRes degrees in Archeology. For 21 years she has been teaching and conducting research in
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnology, Medical Anthropology, Research
Methods, Paleontology and Anthropology of Tourism. During this time, she produced twelve
international publications, twenty publications in national journals, six research entries, and
conducted over twenty special training projects. In 2013 she contributed to a project on
"Inclusive Local Community Development in Myanmar" initiated by the University of Yangon,
Hanyang University and ReDI (Re-shaping Development Institute), supported by the Korea
International Cooperation Agency. As a fellow of the Asia Leadership Fellow Program (Japan
Foundation and International House of Japan), in 2013 she lectured at Hosei University in
Japan focusing on Myanmar ethnic conflicts and democracy from the point of view of political
and social anthropology. During 2014-2015 she contributed to UNESCO Consultation Meetings
and Workshops on Bagan and Innlay bids for the World Heritage site status. Lwin Lwin Mon has
a special interest in the Budapest UNESCO World Heritage programs and learning more about
its historical aesthetics. Her research at CEU focuses on the challenges emerging from the
changes in life-styles of migrants of Kachin ethnic groups living in Yangon.
Dr. Moe Moe Oo is a visiting research fellow in the Department of History. She comes from
Mandalay University in Myanmar, where she has been a History faculty member, currently an
Associate Professor, for seventeen years. She has advised seven PhD candidates in History. A
graduate of Mandalay University, with the PhD from her alma mater, she also studied and
conducted postdoctoral research at Korea University in Seoul. She has published widely on
cultural history, social history and socio-economic history. Her latest paper explores the socio-
economic patterns of Yintaw Township (1752-1885) and was recently presented at the
International Conference on Myanmar Studies at Chiang Mai University in Thailand. Her current
research interest is on marriage customs of crown cultivators in the 18-19th century Burma and
comparisons with the crown service groups in other monarchies of the same period. She plans
to spend the three months of her visiting research fellowship at CEU developing a thorough
grounding of regional historiography, theories and methods of writing, curriculum design and
cultural history.
Dr. Thinn Thinn Latt comes from Dagon University – an institution of higher education that
serves some 30,000 undergraduate students in the city of Yangon in Myanmar. She holds a BA
(Hons) in International Relations awarded by the University of Mandalay in 1994 and an MA
degree (1998). She was awarded a PhD by the University of Yangon in 2007 for her research
on Myanmar's efforts in the area of environmental conservation. She has recently been
appointed an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations at Dagon
University, and previously was a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations at the
University of Yangon, where she taught courses on Diplomacy and Governments of Southeast
Asia for Diploma students, Myanmar Foreign Relations after 1948 for distance education
students, and Introduction to International Relations for undergraduate Philosophy students. Her
areas of specialization are non-traditional security issues, development studies, diplomacy and
foreign policy analysis. She holds a Diploma in International Studies from Chung Ang
University-KOICA Program at the University of Yangon and a certificate of Social and
Demographic Research Methods Training from Australia National University. Her on-going
research focuses on political development in Myanmar and its impact on foreign relations; her
research Fellowship at CEU's Department of International Relations will focus on the process of
democratization in Myanmar and Its impact on peacemaking process.
Dr. Tin Tin Mar is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations,
University of Yangon, Myanmar. She holds a BA (Hons) in International Relations awarded by
the University of Yangon in 1996, an MA degree (2000) and a Doctorate (2008). She was an
International Scholar Exchange fellow funded by the Korean Foundation of Advanced Studies in
2006-2007. Her teaching career started at the University of Yangon in 1997. Currently, she
teaches Myanmar Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations to Doctoral students, Post-Cold War
International Relations for professional development Diploma students, Introduction to
International Relations for first year undergraduate political science students. She contributes
with a course on Foreign Policy and Introduction to International Relations at the Institute of
Development of Public Administration of the Myanmar Ministry of Home Affairs. Her latest
research–based articles "The Sunshine Policy and the Process of Korean Reunification", "The
Significance of UN Conferences on Climate Change", "The Spratly Islands Dispute" were
published in the Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Sciences, she also presented a
paper on Myanmar and International Community: the World Bank, IMF and the United Nations
at the International Symposium on Myanmar 2014: Reintegrating into International Community,
held at Yunnan University, China in July 2014. Her research focuses on the Korean peninsula
and the relations between Myanmar and South Korea in particular. As a Fellow at the CEU
Department of International Relations, she works on the subject of political reforms in Myanmar
and reopening of bilateral relations with South Korea.