Helene Maria Kyed is a social anthropologist and senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. Her research is embedded within peace and conflict studies with special interest in informal justice, policing, resistance, violence, and climate change. Helene has performed field-based research in Mozambique (since 2002) and Myanmar (since 2014). She coordinated the “Everyday Justice and Security in the Myanmar Transition” project from 2015 to 2021 and was issue editor of the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship’s 2020 special issue on Everyday Justice. She leads the MyCClimate project (2021-2027) exploring intersections between climate change and violent conflict in Myanmar in collaboration with Burmese scholar colleagues and Justine Chambers. Helene has also done research on soldier and police defectors after the coup in Myanmar.

Justine Chambers is a social anthropologist and senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). She has more than ten years’ experience researching and writing about Myanmar, with a focus on moral identity, the impacts of long-term conflict, and everyday experiences of climate uncertainty. Chambers’ first book, Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar (National University of Singapore Press, 2024) is an in-depth study of ordinary Plong Karen Buddhist lives in Myanmar’s southeast. Her current work at DIIS focuses on the interplay between climate change and violent conflict as part of the MyCClimate project (2021-2027).

Ah Lynn is a senior researcher from northwest Myanmar who is currently part of the MyCClimate project. She has conducted extensive field-based research across the country on customary land practices, justice provision, and socioeconomic and rural development. Her work includes a decade-long longitudinal study on the social and economic impacts of Cyclone Nargis in the Ayeyarwady Delta, along with social impact monitoring research in multiple ethnic regions. Since the military coup, her research has focused on how political crisis and climate stress intersect to shape the lives of ethnic and conflict-affected communities, with a strong emphasis on political economy.

Nyan Pyi Thit is a senior researcher who has dedicated nearly twenty years of his life to studying social justice and political economy. He is a co-founder of a non-profit Myanmar research institute established in 2011. In addition, he provides training in social research methodology. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Political Economy, Political Ecology, and Critical Development Studies and is part of the MyCClimate project.

Naw Htee Ku is a Karen researcher with a background as an environmental activist who holds a PhD in International Development Studies. Her research examines the constitution of public authority through discourse, everyday practices, and land and forest governance in southern Myanmar. She is involved in the University of Copenhagen project “Peacebuilding, Public Authority and Forests in Myanmar” (2020–2027). Her research interests include resource governance and social movements.

Kasper Hoffmann is a social scientist and Associate Professor at Roskilde University with a research profile rooted in development studies and peace and conflict studies. His work focuses on the intersections of public authority, identity, land, and violent conflict, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Myanmar. He leads the VUCCA project (2023–2028), which examines how smallholder farmers adapt to climate change in northern Uganda, and he co-leads the University of Copenhagen “Peacebuilding, Public Authority and Forests in Myanmar” project (2020–2027), which explores how public authority is shaped through the governance of land and natural resources in conflict-affected areas. He also co leads Urban Frontiers (2024–2029), an ERC-funded project investigating how actors beyond the state define access to land and confer legality on existing arrangements in urban areas.

Nway Kant Kaw is a Burmese anthropologist who has researched peace and conflict with a focus on informal justice, socioeconomic struggles, climate change, environmental maintenance, and natural disaster management. She was a researcher in the “Everyday Justice and Security in the Myanmar Transition” project (2015-2021) and is part of the MyCClimate project (2021-2027) where she explores the military’s appropriation of climate change and the politics of palm oil in Myanmar after the coup.

Saint Sann Aye is a Burmese anthropologist who has done research on socioeconomic relations, informal justice, and identity in Myanmar. She was one of the researchers in the “Everyday Justice and Security in the Myanmar Transition” project (2015-2021) and is now part of the MyCClimate project (2021-2027), conducting research on exploitation of natural resources, environmental conservation and climate change after the 2021 coup.

Saw Ner Dhu Da is a Karen researcher and PhD candidate at a university in Thailand as part of the MyCClimate project. Using a political ecology approach, his doctoral research examines how power dynamics between the state, ethnic armed organizations, and local communities shape land relations, territorial control, resource competition, and responses to environmental and climate change in southeast Myanmar following the 2021 military coup. His research interests lie in political ecology and human geography.

Marianne Mosberg is a research scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research with a PhD in International Environmental and Development Studies from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Her doctoral research examined climate change adaptation, vulnerability, and conflict in southeastern Myanmar, drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in 2018-19. Mosberg’s work focuses particularly on the social dimensions of environmental and climate change, with a particular emphasis on vulnerability, politics, governance, conflict, equity and justice.