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This article surveys the trajectory of peace and conflict studies in Myanmar—from itsearly focus on civil war and insurgency, to state institutions and ethnic armed actors,and later broadening into relational and networked approaches covering formalpeace processes, regional geopolitics, conflict economies, and everyday peacebuilding. It suggests that the widening of peace and conflict studies was brought about bythe opening of the country from the early 2010s, which both granted scholars andresearchers more access to the country and introduced new foreign specialists,discourses, and developmental actors into the political sphere. The peace agendaand directions of peace studies have been upended by the military coup of 2021;how reconciliation, justice, and federal democratic reform will look like in the futureremains to be seen.