Amara Thiha is a Nonresident Fellow with the China Program at the Stimson Center. Amara is also currently a Doctoral Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) taking part in the POPAGANDA Project, as well as the SEAYLP Visiting Fellow at International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Prior to this, he was the Research Director at the Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security (MIPS) and manages the security dialogues project and China research desk. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Stimson Center in 2017 as the Asia Foundation’s William P. Fuller Fellow. Amara served in the Technical Secretariat Center (TSC) of Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (JMC) as Research Manager. In this role, he served as the person responsible for the organizational development of the JMC, and for the establishment of the TSC. He served in the Myanmar Peace Center from 2013 until 2016 and in this role, supported the Nationwide Ceasefire Negotiations. He was involved in the drafting process of Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) from the beginning through its signing, and helped establish the implementation bodies of NCA.