Cheesman, Nicolas

Nick Cheesman is a Research Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University, where he studied for a PhD. In 2013 his dissertation, on the politics of law and order in Myanmar, won the university medal, the J. G. Crawford Prize; and, the President's Prize of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. Before joining the Australian National University he worked in Hong Kong with the Asian Legal Resource Centre, a regional research and advocacy organisation. Earlier he convened a people's tribunal on militarization in Myanmar, for a Thailand-based non-profi...