“Decentralization to states and regions within current constitutional restraints,” reads State and Region Governments in Myanmar, a collaboration between The Asia Foundation and the Myanmar Development Resource Institute’s Center for Economic and Social Development (MDRI-CESD), “cannot provide the degree of political autonomy, security, or share of national wealth that the non-state armed groups in conflict or ceasefire with the government desire in order to agree sustainable peace agreements.”
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