Humanitarian Aid

Humanitarian Aid

Explores humanitarian aid and politics in Myanmar and key challenges, especially for civil society organisations.

Pyae Phyo Maung, Wells, Tamas and Scott, Alec 2026 ‘Locating the “local” in aid localisation: the case of humanitarian response in Myanmar’. Development in Practice. Online. Open access.

Pyae Phyo Maung, Wells, Tamas and Anne Decobert. ‘Myanmar’s Humanitarian Crisis and the Conflict Paradox for Local Aid Organisations’ in Medial, C, Hmung, S, and Pederson, M.B. (eds) Myanmar Rises: The Spring Revolution. ISEAS Press.

Décobert, A, & Wells, T. (2024). 'Redefining Humanitarianism? Civil Society Responses to Myanmar’s Political and Humanitarian “Crisis”', in Defiance, civil resistance and experiences of violence under military rule in Myanmar by C.Jacquet (ed.). Bangkok: IRASEC

Wells, T., & Maung, P. P. (2024). International Aid Partnerships Amidst Myanmar’s Revolution: Solidarity or Self-Preservation and Compliance? Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1–20. doi:10.1080/00472336.2024.2320415

Nwe Hlaing, T. T., Wells, T., & Décobert, A. (2024). Seeing like a donor: the unintended harms of rendering civil society legible. Development in Practice, 1–12. doi:10.1080/09614524.2024.2362783

Décobert, A. & Wells, T. (2020). Interpretive Complexity and Crisis: the History of International Aid to Myanmar. The European Journal of Development Research, 32(1), pp. 294-315. doi:10.1057/s41287-019-00238-y

Wells, T. & Maung, P. P. (2024). ‘Amid revolution, Myanmar’s NGOs face a deficit of donor solidarity’, New Mandala, June 2024.

Wells, T. (2020). Narratives of Donor Accountability in Support to Peace Processes: The Case of the Joint Peace Fund in Myanmar. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 15(1), pp. 18–30. doi:10.1177/1542316619868436