On March 5-6, diplomats and officials from 14 countries met with Burma experts and representatives of the United Nations and the World Bank in Seoul, South Korea to discuss the possibility of new initiatives to end Burma?s political impasse. This ?brainstorming session? ended, predictably, with no fresh ideas and no indication that Asian and Western nations had come any closer to a consensus on how to deal with the situation inside Burma. But far from being yet another diplomatic nonevent, ?Chilston II?, the follow-up to a similar meeting that took place in Chilston, England nearly two years ago, may mark a significant shift in the direction of international efforts to resolve the Burmese stalemate.