Myanmar is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious country. The hope within Myanmar is that these ethnic groups live peacefully as neighbours in the salad-bowl approach to the multicultural community in which all the ethnic groups maintain their identities and exercise their potential for building the nation. However, the practices of exclusion based on racial differences in the socio-political circumstances of the country have resulted in ethnically-based armed resistance over self-determination, freedom of religion and language, power-sharing and control of resources. The armed conflict between the ethnic minorities and the Bamar politicians in the military (Tatmadaw) government has been responsible for multi-destructive results: poverty, mass displacement, and a systematic violation of human rights. Thus, it can be seen that a coercive approach to social transformation does not bring justice and peace to the nation, but rather becomes a threat to national unity and the development of the country. The current crisis of the ethnic conflict in Myanmar does not only present an opportunity to explore an alternative approach to addressing the sin of exclusion but the contextual sensitive approach to develop a theology of embrace. The research, therefore, explores the Christian teachings on neighbour along with the traditional Chin and Burmese concepts of neighbour to reimagine the notion of neighbour in the socio-political context in order to develop a theology of embrace for the process of building peace in Myanmar. With this in mind, the primary question which the research to examine is ‘How can the concept of neighbour (Ein-Ni-Kyin) be reimagined contextually to address the sin of exclusion at the heart of ethnic conflict and develop a theology of embrace for building peace in Myanmar?’