Salai Samuel Hmung is a PhD student at the Department of Political and Social Change of the Australian National University (ANU) and a research officer at the ANU’s Myanmar Research Centre. His PhD project explores the revolutionary dynamics and relationship between non-violent and violent movements in Myanmar and beyond. He received a Master of Political Science (Advanced) from the ANU under the Australian Awards scholarship. His master thesis applied an original power-sharing framework to explore and compare the preferences of Myanmar’s elite political actors for power-sharing through their public statements from 2015 to 2020 by using a dictionary-based content analysis method.

He has ten years of professional experience in the field of peacebuilding, electoral politics, and youth activism in Myanmar. He has worked as a researcher for institutions and projects, including the ARC-funded project ‘Constitutional Change in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Myanmar’ at the Faculty of Law and Justice of the University of New South Wales, the Southeast Asia Rules-Based Order (SEARBO) project at the ANU’s Coral Bell School, and the United States Institute of Peace. His broader research interests include armed conflicts, revolutions, and rebel governance.