Samuel Hmung
Salai Samuel Hmung (Samuel) is an emerging researcher with nine years’ professional experience in peacebuilding, electoral politics, and youth activism in Myanmar. He is a Research Officer at the Australian National University’s Myanmar Research Centre and a Research Associate working on the ARC-funded project ‘Constitutional Change in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Myanmar’ at the Faculty of Law and Justice of the University of New South Wales. He has worked as a researcher for various institutions and projects, including the Southeast Asia Rules-Based Order (SEARBO) project at the ANU’s Coral Bell School, the United States Institute of Peace, the Asia Foundation, and the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. He is the recipient of an Australian Awards scholarship and was awarded his Master of Political Science (Advanced) from the ANU.
His master’s thesis applied an original power-sharing framework to explore and compare the preferences of Myanmar’s elite political actors for power-sharing through their public statements from 2015-2020 by using a dictionary-based content analysis method. His research focuses on politics of non-state armed actors in Myanmar, power-sharing institutions, and resistance movements.
