For the past few years, Myanmar’s political transition has been ham-
pered by violence between Buddhists and Muslims. A nation with an
ethnically Burman and religiously Buddhist majority, the population
also comprises a large minority of Muslims and members of other reli-
gions, and includes many different ethnic groups. As such, Myanmar
society is complex and innately plural.
While the country has struggled with a range of political and socio-
economic challenges related to the transition, the violence between reli-
gious groups has taken center stage since 2012, particularly with the rise
of the 969 movement and MaBaTha
(the Organization for the Protection