ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals that the conditions along the war/peace spectrum in Myanmar/Burma are generally tilted towards a militarized peace, the latter itself generating and transforming the dynamics, which transcend any clear-cut ethnic and political fault-lines. It focuses on the significant dynamics of what call "geo-body politics" in Myanmar/Burma, whether in ceasefire, non-ceasefire or "partially securitized zones". Much of the tension concerns the control over historically contested space of the geo-body, where the mightiest actor is the regime. The Myanmar/Burmese army, tatmadaw, in terms of traditional power, but it is by far from being the only actor with ability to control territory, resources and people. Power and control over space lies at the heart of discussions about a country that Kramer validly labels as the state of "Neither War Nor Peace". The current military regime of Myanmar/Burma has rather successfully created an image of itself as having been pursuing the ostensible policy of peace-making with ethnic minority groups.
