Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-496) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction /​ Mandy Sadan Longer Histories of Ceasefire 2 .Historical Perspectives on War and Peace in Kachin Space: The First Kachin Ceasefire 1944 1961 /​ Mandy Sadan Reflections 3.Reflections on the Kachin Ceasefire: A Cycle of Hope and Disappointment /​ Martin Smith Political Economies of Ceasefire 4.Understanding Myanmar's Ceasefires: Geopolitics, Political Economy and State-Building /​ Lee Jones 5.The Commercialisation of Counterinsurgency: Battlefield Enemies, Business Bedfellows in Kachin State, Burma /​ Kevin Woods Cross-Border Diplomacy with China 6.Borderland Ethnic Politics and Changing Sino Myanmar Relations /​ Enze Han Myanmar Relations /​ Enze Han 7.People's Diplomacy and Borderland History through the Chinese Jingpo Manau Zumko Festival /​ Ho Ts'ui-p'ing Cultural Intimacies of Kachin Nationalism 8.Conspiracy, God's Plan and National Emergency: Kachin Popular Analyses of the Ceasefire Era and its Resource Grabs /​ Laur Kiik Contents note continued: 9.`Before I joined the army I was like a child': Militarism and Women's Rights in Kachinland /​ Jenny Hedstrom 10.Counting the Days: The Kachin Ceasefire and the Emergence of a New Graphic Medium /​ Helen Mears Local to Global Experiences 11.A Woman's Life in War and Peace /​ Nhkum Bu Lu 12.Kachin Student Life at Yangon University in the Mid-1990s /​ Hkanhpa Tu Sadan 13.The Founding of the KNO and the Development of a Diaspora Activist Network /​ Duwa Mahkaw Hkun Sa Other Ceasefires Within and Beyond Myanmar 14.The Continuation of War by Other Means: An Anatomy of the Palaung Ceasefire in Northern Shan State /​ Patrick Meehan 15.The Karen and the Ceasefire Negotiations: Mistrust, Internal Segmentation and Clinging to Arms /​ Mikael Gravers 16.Ethnic and Land Conflicts in North East India: Lessons for Myanmar /​ Reshmi Banerjee 17.The Social Memory of the Mizo Buai: Some Comparisons with the Kachin Conflict /​ Mandy Sadan x Cultural Intimacies of Kachin Nationalism 8.Conspiracy, God's Plan and National Emergency: Kachin Popular Analyses of the Ceasefire Era and its Resource Grabs /​ Laur Kiik Contents note continued: 9.`Before I joined the army I was like a child': Militarism and Women's Rights in Kachinland /​ Jenny Hedstrom 10.Counting the Days: The Kachin Ceasefire and the Emergence of a New Graphic Medium /​ Helen Mears Local to Global Experiences 11.A Woman's Life in War and Peace /​ Nhkum Bu Lu 12.Kachin Student Life at Yangon University in the Mid-1990s /​ Hkanhpa Tu Sadan 13.The Founding of the KNO and the Development of a Diaspora Activist Network /​ Duwa Mahkaw Hkun Sa Other Ceasefires Within and Beyond Myanmar 14.The Continuation of War by Other Means: An Anatomy of the Palaung Ceasefire in Northern Shan State /​ Patrick Meehan x 14.The Continuation of War by Other Means: An Anatomy of the Palaung Ceasefire in Northern Shan State /​ Patrick Meehan 15.The Karen and the Ceasefire Negotiations: Mistrust, Internal Segmentation and Clinging to Arms /​ Mikael Gravers 16.Ethnic and Land Conflicts in North East India: Lessons for Myanmar /​ Reshmi Banerjee 17.The Social Memory of the Mizo Buai: Some Comparisons with the Kachin Conflict /​ Mandy Sadan Contents note continued: Concluding Remarks 18.Reflections on Ceasefires Past, Present and Future /​ Matthew J. Walton. 15.The Karen and the Ceasefire Negotiations: Mistrust, Internal Segmentation and Clinging to Arms /​ Mikael Gravers 16.Ethnic and Land Conflicts in North East India: Lessons for Myanmar /​ Reshmi Banerjee 17.The Social Memory of the Mizo Buai: Some Comparisons with the Kachin Conflict /​ Mandy Sadan Contents note continued: Concluding Remarks 18.Reflections on Ceasefires Past, Present and Future /​ Matthew J. Walton. Contents note continued: Concluding Remarks 18.Reflections on Ceasefires Past, Present and Future /​ Matthew J. Walton.

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