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The curriculum for the three-month course has been uniquely designed by academics specialized in the field of peace studies to enable program participants to identify and understand the causes of conflict at the local, regional, and international levels, and provide them with the skills necessary to prevent and resolve conflict with a focus on the ability to effect change and maintain peace.

The Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program hosts a global group o experts, including faculty from the Political Science Department and other specialized departments of Chulalongkorn University, guest lecturers from universities outside of Bangkok, and international experts from diverse governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as private corporations.

Guest expert lecturers for the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Session I (July-September 2007) include:

  Dr.Tom Woodhouse Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University, UK
  Dr.Chaiyan Rajchagool Chiangmai University, Thailand
  Dr.Erik Melander Uppsala University, Sweden
  Dr.Christopher Mitchell George Mason University, USA
  Dr.Vanchai Vatanasapt King Prajadhipok's Institute, Thailand
  Dr.Suwit Laohasiriwong Khon Kaen University, Thailand
  Dr.Kamarulzaman Askandar University of Malaya, Malaysia
  Mr.Joe William Canadian International Development Agency, Sri Lanka
  Dr.Chaiwat Satha-Anand Thammasat University, Thailand
  Ms.Siriporn Skrobanek Foundation for Women, Thailand
  Dr.Gothom Arya National Economic and Social Advisory Council, Thailand
  Dr.Mark Tamthai Payap University, Thailand
  Dr.Imtiyaz Yusuf Assumption University, Thailand
  Mr.Soth Plai Ngam Alliance for Conflict Transformation
  Mr.Chaiwat Thirapantu Civicnet Institute, Thailand
  Dr.Lawrence Surendra Centre for Research in Environment, Innovations,
Technology and Trade, India
  Ms.Naree Charoenponpiriya National Reconciliation Commission, Thailand
  Ms.Pippa Curwen Burmese Relief Center, Thailand
  Dr. Chantana Banpasirichote Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  Mr. Alfredo Ferrariz Lubang Nonviolence International Southeast Asia
  Dr. Amara Pongsapich Rotary Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
  Mr. Joel Schaffer Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, USA
  Dr. Puntip Sirivunnabood Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  Dr. Panrapee Suttiwan Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  Dr. Vitoon Viriyasakultorn USAID/ECO-Asia
  Mr.Colonel Songwit Noonpackdee Deputy Regiment Commander, 11th Infantry Regiment of the King’s Guard
  Dr. Loreta Castro Miriam College, Philippines
  Ms.Reena Kukreja Woman’s Study Program, Queen’s University
  Ms.Irene Santiago Chief Executive Officer, Mindanao Commission on Women
  Dr.Kamala Chandrakirana the Secretary General of the Indonesian National Commission on Violence Against Women, Indonesia
  Dr.Abhoud Syed M. Lingga Executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies in Cotabato City, Philippines
  Dr.Craig Zelizer Senior partner , alliancefor conflict transformation and visiting Asst. Prof., Dept.of Govt., Georgetown university
  Dr.David Connolly Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU) University of York, UK
  Prof.Geoff Harris Lecturer and researcher at School of Economics, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
  Mr. John A. Wagner Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service, (FMCS)
  Dr. June Pagaduan-Lopez M.D. Professor of Psychiatry
  Mr.Mirsad "Miki" Jacevic Bosnia Program Director
  Mr.Peter J. Bryan Swanson Senior partner, carr swanson & randolph, llc
  Ven.Paisarn Visalo Abbot of Wat Pa Sutako, Temple in Kaengkhlor District,
Chaiyapoom Province
  Dr.Oliver Richmond School of internation relations university of st. andrews
  Mr.Jehan Perera Executive Director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka (NPCSL)
  Rev.Ray Helmick Instructor in Conflict Resolution at Boston College
and Senior Associate in the Program in Preventive Diplomacy
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.
  Dr.Hamdi Muluk Department of psychology University of Indonesia
 

Bhikkhuna Dhamma Nandha

Wat Shongdhamkalayani ,Nakhonpathom, Thailand
  Dr. Rosalia Sciortino

Institute of Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University


BIOGRAPHY

DR. TOM WOODHOUSE
Professor of Conflict Resolution
University of Bradford
Professor Woodhouse has worked in the Department of Peace Studies since 1974, when he was appointed as Research Assistant to Professor Adam Curle. He developed the first conflict resolution teaching and research activities in the department during the mid 1980s, and in 1990 he initiated the Centre for Conflict Resolution, serving as the founding director of the Centre between 1990 and 2000. In March 1999 he was appointed to a personal chair and took the title of Professor of Conflict Resolution (Adam Curle Chair). Recent publications include Contemporary Conflict Resolution, Polity Press, (with Oliver Ramsbotham and Hugh Miall). Much of his research is concerned with an examination of the relationship between peacekeeping and conflict resolution. With Oliver Ramsbotham he published the Encyclopedia of International Peacekeeping Operations, ABC/CLIO, Denver/Oxford, 1999, and Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, published by Frank Cass in 2001.He is on the editorial advisory board of the journal International Peacekeeping.
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DR. CHAIYAN RAJCHAGOOL
Department of History, Faculty of Humanities
Chiang Mai University
Dr. Chaiyan Rajchagool is from Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University. Prior to his social studies, he got his first degree in Fisheries from Kasetsart University, Bangkok. With a kind of detour, he has obtained his M.A. (Peace Studies) at the University of Bradford and Ph.D. at Manchester University, U.K. He has published a number of works related to Thai and Southeast Asian Studies. These include The Rise and Fall of the Thai Absolute Monarchy, Bangkok: While Lotus, 1994, and "A Socio-Historical Approach to Transport in the Greater Mekong Sub-region", In The Asian Journal, vol.12, no.1, August 2005. He is a core faculty member of the Rotary Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University.
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DR. ERIK MELANDER
Associate Professor
Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr. Erik Melander is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University in Sweden. He received his doctorate from the same institution and was also a visiting scholar at Yale University in the United States during his Ph.D. studies. Dr. Melander has been working in the field of peace and conflict research since 1992, most notably in the area of gender inequality and collective violence as well as forced migration. Dr. Melander is a Fulbright Scholar and is fluent in several languages. He is most recently the co-founder and chief consultant of Melander Schnell Consultants. Dr. Melander is the father of two children, Tor and Vija; he currently resides with his family in Uppsala, Sweden. He is a core faculty member of the Rotary Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University.
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DR. SUWIT LAOHASIRIWONG
Associate Professor
Department of Plant Science and Agriculture Resources
Director, Institute for Dispute Resolution
Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Dr. Suwit Laohasiriwong is Associate Professor at the Department of Plant Science and Agriculture Resources in Khon Kaen University. He is also the Director of the Institute for Dispute Resolution at the University. Dr. Suwit obtained his Ph.D. from Massey University in New Zealand. He has been actively involved in research and teaching at Khon Kaen University. He was Vice President for Foreign and Public Relations in 1992-1995. In addition, Dr. Laohasiriwong is the founding Deputy Director of several organizations: the Mekong Institute, the New Zealand Overseas Development Aid Project in Greater Mekong, and the Institute for Dispute Resolution. He is a core faculty member of the Rotary Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University.
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KAMARULZAMAN ASKANDAR
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences
Coordinator of Research and Education for Peac
e University Sains Malaysia
Kamarulzaman Askandar is the Coordinator of the Research and Education for Peace at University Sains Malaysia as well as the Regional Coordinator of the Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network (www.seacsn.net). He is also an Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences at University Sains Malaysia. He has an MA in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in Conflict Resolution from the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK. His area of specialization is Southeast Asia - focusing on issues of peace and conflict in the region. He has written and edited a few books on the subject including Understanding and Managing Militant Movements in Southeast Asia (2005), The Mindanao Conflict (2005), and Our Culture of Peace (2006). He has a keen interest in self determination type conflicts and has been involved in peace building activities in Aceh (Indonesia), Mindanao (Southern Philippines), and Southern Thailand. He loves the sea and hopes to retire on an island somewhere in Southern Philippines.   He is a core faculty member of the Rotary Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University.
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DR. CHAIWAT SATHA-ANAND
Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science
Director, Peace Information Centre
Thammasat University
Dr. Satha-Anand is an Associate Professor at Thammasat University.  He is the founder and director of the Peace Information Center, Foundation for Democracy and Development Studies and president of the Social Sciences Association of Thailand.  He is also a former vice-rector of Thammasat University, where he now teaches courses on political philosophy and nonviolence.  He is a former convener of the Nonviolence Commission and International Peace Research Association.  Professor Satha-Anand is the author of a number of books, published both in Thailand and abroad.  His recent publications include Thailand's Military Budget 1982-1991 (1996, in Thai), Peace Theory/Cultural Means (1996, in Thai), and the Nonviolent Crescent (1996). He is currently working on a monograph entitled State and Nonviolence, commissioned by the Thai National Security Council.
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DR. MARK TAMTHAI
Payap University
Mark Tamthai is a former head of the Philosophy Department, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, where he taught for 30 years. He teaches and writes in the fields of Philosophy of Science, Ethics, Social Philosophy, and Peace-Conflict Studies. Some of his recent papers are “Democracy with a Heart”, “The Democratic-Peace Hypothesis and Building a Culture of Peace in Southeast Asia”, “Forming Cultures, then Letting Go: Humanity’s Survival Dance”, and “Citizenship and the Struggle for Rights in Fledgling Democracies”. At the present time he is Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; member of Thailand’s National Reconciliation Commission; and is the current president of the Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand.
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MR.IMTIYAZ YUSUF
Head, Department of Religion
Graduate School of Philosophy and Religion
Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf is currently, Head, Dept of Religion, Graduate School of Philosophy and Religion, Assumption University, Bang kok, Thailand. Dr. Yusuf is a British citizen, born in Tanzania, holder of a Bachelor's Degree in Politics (Poona University, India), Master's Degree in Islamic Studies (Aligarh Muslim University, India) and Ph. D. in Religion (Temple University, USA). His academic specialization is in the area of Religion with focus on Islamic Studies and Islam in Thailand. Dr. Yusuf has formerly taught at the Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA; Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; College of Islamic Studies, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani, Thailand.  Dr. Yusuf has contributed to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islamic World,  Encyclopedia of  Qur'an (E. J. Brill) and Oxford Dictionary of Islam.  He has edited four books on Islam in Southeast Asia. His recent publications are:  "Dialogue between Islam and Buddhism Through The Concepts of  Tathagata and Nur Muhammadi" in  International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture, Vol. 5, February 2005 : 103-114;  "Faces of  Islamic Culture, Facing Contemporary Change" in Cultural Traditions and Contemporary Challenges in Southeast Asia: Hindu and Buddhist  edited by Warayuth Sriwarakuel et al. (Washington, D.C:  The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2005) pp. 333-350; The Ethno-Religious Dimension of the Conflict in  Southern Thailand in Understanding Conflict and Approaching Peace in Southern Thailand edited by Imtiyaz Yusuf (Bangkok: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2006)
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MR.CHAIWAT THIRAPANTU
President, Civicnet Institute
Bangkok, Thailand
Chaiwat Thirapantu was born in Nakorn Srithamarat province, the South of Thailand.  After finishing high school, he went to Germany to study Business Administration at Erlangen-Nuernberg University. From 1972-1973 he acted as the President of Thai Students Association in Germany.  He also worked as a Thai language teacher to train German development officers headed to Thailand.  Mr. Thirapantu returned to Thailand in 1974 where he worked as a journalist and an advisor for the labor movement.  In 1986, he was a founding member of Community Action Party (CAP).  During 1986-1989, he acted as a Board member of CAP to facilitate social change through the representative political process.   After realizing that representative political processes do not lead to positive and participatory change, Mr. Thirapantu decided to become involved in the civic movement.  In 1994, he founded Bangkok Forum, a non-profit civic group aimed at revitalizing old communities in Bangkok.  As a result, he was recognized as a "Public Innovator" Asoka Fellow in 1994. In addition, Bangkok Forum received a 1996 Award from ESCAP for its creative approach in engaging citizens for the goal of urban management.  In 1997, Mr. Thirapantu founded CIVICNET, a non-governmental organization network which seeks to promote civil society in Thailand.  He currently acts as the coordinator of Bangkok Forum and the president of CIVICNET Institute.  In the mid 1990s, Mr. Thirapantu has been applying a number of public participatory tools and techniques such as Future Search Conference (FSC), Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to involve local community members in making collective decisions for the betterment of the society.   He has also organized a number of public seminars and special events to encourage local communities to make participatory decisions on local and national issues.   Mr. Thirapantu has traveled extensively throughout the country and abroad to speak to the public on various topics ranging from civil society, system theory, chaos theory, participatory project planning, and participatory community development.  He has conducted workshops to train community leaders, community members, and key stakeholders on healthy city projects, change agent skills, principles of practices of civic innovators, communication and team building. In October 8 and 9,2004 he facilitated a conference titled "People Assembly in Thailand" with 3,000 attendees by using "appreciative inquiry" and "world café" methodology.  His well-known scholarly work is a 1994 book titled Chaos Theory and the Siam Society at the Cross Road.  In 1999, he edited Quo Vadis Thailand?.  He also presented a paper titled, "Thai Cities in the Globalization Era," at the International Conference on Thai Studies in Chiangmai in 1995.  He conducted a preliminary research project entitled, "How to create urban communities in Bangkok," funded by Thai research Funding in 1997.  He has also served as a visiting professor and a guest lecturer at leading universities throughout Thailand.
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DR.CHANTANA BANPASIRICHOTE
Associate Professor, Faculty Of Political Science
Director, International Development Studies Masters Program
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Dr. Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo was trained in regional planning at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is a faculty member of the Department of Government, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. At present, she serves as the Director of the Master of Arts in International Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science. She has taught courses on conflict and conflict resolution, democracy and development, and the politics of development. Her research interests in the past few years have focussed on the democratic movements in Thailand, civil society and public participation, and the current project on multi-ethnic democracy for the deep south of Thailand. Chantana also actively serves numerous non-governmental organizations as board member, advisor and consultant. She is a core faculty member of the Rotary Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University.
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MR.ALFREDO FERRARIZ LUBANG
Regional Representative
Nonviolence International Southeast Asia
Mr. Alfredo Ferrariz Lubang is the Regional Representative of Nonviolence International - Southeast Asia (NISEA) based in Bangkok, Thailand. NISEA endeavours to strengthen the ability of human society to use the power of nonviolence to bring about change which reflects truth, justice, and the desire for human development at the personal, social, economic and political levels. Prior to his Bangkok post, he served for five years as Director of the Peace Advocacy and Networking Program of the Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute (GZOPI), a leading peace institute in the Philippines. He also served as the Convenor and the founding-National Coordinator of the Philippine Action Network on Small Arms (PHILANSA), a growing network of nongovernmental organizations and peace advocates addressing the small arms and light weapons issue. He served as a member of the board of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) based in London. As a peace researcher, he has been the Landmine Monitor as a researcher on the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei since 1998 as well as in Burma/Myanmar, Laos and Singapore. He has also been involved with research on issues of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), democratization, civil society, conflict resolution and peace processes. Currently, he serves on the board and council of various peace organizations. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Philippine Campaign to Ban Landmines and the advisory board of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He also serves as a regional council member of the International Peace Bureau, recipient of the 1910 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Recently, he co-founded the South-South Network on Nonstate Armed Groups Engagement (SSN), a new region-anchored initiative from the global South (e.g. Asia, Africa and Latin America) which seeks to pay more attention to and develop more effective approaches, instruments and intellectual resources for the constructive engagement of non-state armed groups (NSAGs). As a peace advocate and educator, he has been actively involved in the promotion of the culture of peace and in the development of training modules on peace education. He has been active in leading trainings and workshops on peace and nonviolence. He has also lectured on peace and human rights course at the Graduate School on Human Rights at Mahidol University, Thailand.
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DR.AMARA PONGSAPICH
Director Rotary Center For Peace And Conflict Studies
Dr. Amara Pongsapich, Directory of the Rotary Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, is professor and has served as the Dean of the Political Science Faculty at Chulalongkorn University since 2002. After completing her undergraduate course at the University of California, she continued her study and obtained her MA and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Washington in 1974. Professor Amara was the chairperson of the sub-committee on the Development of Women’s Information Systems from 1989 to 1992 and was a board member of the UN International Research and training Institute for the Advancement of Women from 1990 to 1996. From 1986 to present, she has served as a board member of the Qualitative Research Association of Thailand and since 2003 for the Sub-Committee on Education and Development for the National Commission on Human Rights. Professor Amara has extensive experience of researching and education in Thailand, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, Philippines, and Nepal. Her recent research includes Globalization and Social Safety Nets in Asia-Pacific Region: A Case of Thailand (2003) and Public-Interest Sector in Thailand (2004).
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JOEL SCHAFFER
Commissioner
Federal Mediation And Conciliation Service
United States Government
Joel Schaffer has been a mediator with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for over eleven years. In addition to being responsible for the mediation of labor disputes in the private and federal sectors, he facilitates seminars on labor management relations such as steward training, building negotiating skills, grievance handling, Appreciative Inquiry, problem solving, interest based (mutual gain) bargaining, contract administration, organizational development and arbitration preparation. He has designed and delivered mediation and collective bargaining training to the labor management communities of Hungary and Croatia. In recognition of this work, as well as his contributions to the settlement of the 2002 West Coast Port Negotiations, Mr. Schaffer was awarded his agency’s highest honor, The Directors Award. Prior to joining FMCS, Mr. Schaffer was a Field Representative for Service Employees International Union, Local 790. He received his BA in Sociology, with Honors, from the University of California at Santa Cruz and holds a lifetime teaching credential with the California Community College System. He has received advanced training in mediation from both Harvard University and the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University Law School. In addition, he has been a Journeyman Sheetmetal Worker, an Ordinary Seaman in the U.S. Merchant Marine and holds a Black Belt in Aikido.
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DR.PUNTIP SIRIVUNNABOOD
Associate Professor
Faculty Of Psychology
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Dr. Puntip Sirivunnabood is presently an Associate Professor of Psychology at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. She received her B.Ed. in Teaching English from Chulalongkorn, her M.Ed. in Elementary Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and her Ph.D. in Human Development from the same institution. Dr. Sirivunnabood has been working at Chulalongkorn University as a member of the faculties of education and psychology since 1973. She has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Psychology as well as President of the Faculty Senate, and has been the recipient of numerous research grants. Her expertise focuses on developmental psychology, family psychology, human relations, and contemporary political behavior in the context of democratic movements. Dr. Sirivunnabood is a core faculty member of the Rotary Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University.
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DR.PANRAPEE SUTTIWAN
Assistant Professor
Faculty Of Psychology
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Dr. Panrapee Suttiwan is an Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Psychology at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. She also serves as the Associate Dean for Planning and Development at the Faculty of Psychology, and Director for the M.A. program in Developmental Psychology. She received her bachelor’s degree in medical technology from Chulalongkorn, and a M.A. in Psychology from the US International University in California. Dr. Suttiwan completed her Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the University of Hawaii. She has extensive clinical expertise in the field of early intervention and child psychology, and has been a lecturer with the present faculty for more than a decade. Dr. Suttiwan has also served in many administrative capacities during her tenure at Chulalongkorn, and has published extensively in her field of expertise. Her research focuses on family psychology, the psychology of communication, infant and child development and assessment, and human relations.
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DR. VITOON VIRIYASAKULTORN
Senior Governance Specialist
Usaid / Eco – Asia
Dr. Vitoon Viriyasakultorn received his B.A. in political science from Chulalongkorn and his M.Sc. in Human Settlements Development (Rural Development Planning) from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. He later received his Ph.D. in Community Forestry at Michigan State University in the U.S. He received scholarships for both his Masters and Ph.D. work from the Canadian International Development Agency and Winrock International for Agricultural Development, respectively. Mr. Vitoon has over fifteen years’ experience in capacity building, facilitation/moderation, program and project planning, management, evaluation, organizational management, and conflict management. He has worked for the Mekong River Commission in Vientiane, Lao as a program manager for Agriculture, Irrigation and Forestry. He has also served Kasetsart University as the Regional Community Forestry Training Center Head and Executive Director. He has provided his services as a consultant to many regional, national, and international groups. Mr. Vitoon is regularly invited as a guest speaker and trainer on conflict management in natural resources by government agencies, NGOs and universities in Thailand and abroad. He has also published on the topic of natural resource management by indigenous communities and authored curricula for use in his trainings in this field. His regional experience includes Vietnam, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Malaysia, China, and Denmark. He has traveled throughout the world in the course of his work, and is currently employed as a senior governance specialist for USAID/ECO-Asia.
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COLONEL SONGWIT NOONPACKDEE
Military Officer
Deputy Regiment Commander,
11thInfantry King’s Guard
Colonel Songwit Noonpackdee has served as a military officer in Thailand for the last 19 years. He currently serves in the 11th Infantry Regiment of the King’s Guard as the Deputy Regiment Commander. As such, he is in charge of the unit’s operation in the area of preventing social conflict, including protective operations and peace operations. Colonel Songwit received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Military Institute in the U.S. and his M.S. in Structural Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology. He has completed courses on humanitarian assistance, peace operations, civil affairs and international conflicts at the Royal Thai Army – U.S. Army Staff College. His direct experience with conflict includes the northeastern part of Thailand near the border with Laos where he has been involved in solving conflicts caused by exploitation of natural resources, illegal migration, and international demarcation disputes. In 1997 he worked in operations in the eastern part of Thailand near the Cambodian border and he has also vast experience in the western and southern parts of Thailand. Colonel Songwit introduced the King’s philosophy of “sufficient way of life” to significantly reduce casualties in the Southern Thai province of Narathiwat by 80% in one years’ time. The program he founded was recommended to the National Reconciliation Report as a successful example of conflict resolution in Southern Thailand.
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DR. LORETA CASTRO
Director, Center For Peace Education
Miriam College, Philippines
Loreta Castro is the Director of the Center for Peace Education based in Miriam College, Quezon City, Philippines. She teaches Peace Studies and Peace Education in the International Studies and Education Departments of Miriam College, respectively.

She completed her bachelor’s degree in Education and History at the same institution (called Maryknoll College then) with Cum laude honors and her master’s and doctorate degrees in the area of Social Studies Education at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Upon her completion of her doctorate degree, she was given an Academic Excellence Award and an Outstanding Research Award for her dissertation, “Students’ Concepts of Peace and Attitudes toward Peace Issues: Implications for Peace Education in the Social Studies Curriculum”. Last year she was chosen as one of 27 Filipino women among the 1000 women around the world who were collectively nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 by the Association 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize.

She has given talks and read papers in conferences and facilitated workshops in the Philippines and other countries (e.g. U.S., Canada, Lebanon, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, and Spain). In 2001 she served on the training team that conducted a teacher-training workshop at the Asia-Pacific Center of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) in Korea that was attended by teachers from 14 Asia-Pacific countries. In 2002 she was on APCEIU’s training team for a workshop held in Fiji for several South Pacific Counties and in the same year she was on APNIEVE’s training team in Adelaide, Australia. APNIEVE stands for the Asia-Pacific Network for International and Values Education.

She has co-organized along with three other Peace Education Center heads from the US, Lebanon and Japan a network that initiated a project called “The Spiritual and Ethical Foundations of Peace Education”. Since 2003 this project has been trying to promote ethical standards of human dignity and the beliefs regarding peace and respect for others that are integral to the major world religions. These workshops have been conducted in Japan, the Philippines and Korea.

She has written a book entitled Tungo sa Isang Mapayapang Mundo (Toward a Peaceful World) and has published many articles. One of these articles, “Peace and Peace Education: A Holistic View” was published in the World Encyclopedia of Peace (New York: Oceana Publications, Inc., 2000). She was a contributor and an Editorial Committee member for Learning to Live Together: Teachers Resource Book on Education for International Understanding (2004) and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Education for International Understanding. Both are publications of APCEIU. In 2005, she served as the Peace Education thematic coordinator for a UNDP Project entitled “Civil Society Peacebuilding Initiatives in the Philippines.” Her team produced a research paper on the peace education initiatives of academic institutions and a peace education tool kit.

Dr. Castro is the coordinator of a local Peace Education Network, the secretary of the Philippine Council for Peace and Global Education, a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Global Campaign for Peace Education as well as a member of the Executive Committee of Pax Christi International. She is the Chair of the Peace Education Working Group of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) in Southeast Asia.
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MS.REENA KUKREJA
Woman’s Study Program
Queen’s University
Ms.Reena Kukreja is an independent documentary film-maker, who has directed over 50 documentaries in the last 17 years mainly in India and in other parts of South Asia for international donor agencies and NGOs as well as local activist groups. Her documentaries, with development related themes such as environment, poverty alleviation, health and gender are used as tools for grassroots activism amongst rural women in South Asia. Some of her films, especially on child labor, have been used as advocacy tools by community organizations to press for legislative reforms.

Over the last few years, her filmmaking practice has led her to seriously consider the ethics and responsibilities of filmmakers working in cross-cultural contexts: do they have any accountability towards the people they film; how does the unequal balance of power that exists between them and the subjects get redressed and how does the question of representing others and representing reality to make a case or to suit the interests of an agency that supports the film-making activity get resolved. According to her, grappling with such questions has been vital for her self understanding and position on these issues.
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MS.IRENE SANTIAGO
Chief Executive Officer
Mindanao Commission on Women
Ms. Irene Santiago is the senior adviser to the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process in the Philippines. She also currently serves as the founding chair and CEO of the Mindanao Commission on Women and the Convener of Mothers for Peace. She has worked in the past as a gender expert for the Multi-Donor Trust Fund, and a member of the Philippine Government Panel on Negotiating Peace with the MILF. She has a long career of working in peace and women’s affairs, and also currently sits as the president of the Institute for Women’s Leadership. In 1998 she contested the national elections for the Philippines as the candidate of vice president. Ms. Santiago has worked internationally in the field of poverty reduction programs in Yemen, and on gender programs with the World Bank in Tokyo. She has served in the capacity of Chief for the Asia/Pacific Section for UNIFEM (UN Development Fund for Women) in New York. Ms. Santiago is a specialist on gender issues in peace and conflict transformation, post-war reconstruction and recovery, politics and governance, poverty reduction and economic empowerment, gender mainstreaming, strategic planning, and project planning and implementation. She received her B.A. in English from the Philippine Women’s College of Davao, and her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2005 she was a nominee for the Philippines of the 1,000 Women for the Novel Peace Price Group.
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DR.KAMALA CHANDRAKIRANA
the Secretary General of the Indonesian National Commission on Violence Against Women,
Indonesia
Kamala Chandrakirana, 43, believes passionately that government must be made more accountable if poor Indonesians are to receive the social services they need. She helped establish the Indonesian Working Group for the Eradication of Structural Poverty, KIKIS. As coordinator for the group, she leads a nationwide effort to identify and confront the causes of structural poverty. She is also a founder of JARI Indonesia, an organization which seeks to improve the delivery of vital social services in rural Indonesia by reducing widespread government corruption. In 1998, Chandrakirana became secretary general of the National Commission on Violence Against Women, a 21-member commission established by presidential decree. The commission works to eliminate all forms of violence against women in Indonesia through legal reform, public education, documentation, and capacity building.

Chandrakirana chaired the Jakarta-based National Commission on Violence Against Women, a national mechanism for women’s human rights. Following the tsunami in December 2003, she initiated a program to monitor women’s rights in the post-tsunami and post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation of Aceh. In 2004, Chandrakirana was appointed a member of a presidential fact-finding team to investigate the death of a prominent Indonesian human rights activist. In 2005, she was among 1,000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in an initiative lead by a Swiss parliamentarian to recognize women working for the cause of peace and human dignity.
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DR. ABHOUD SYED M LINGGA
Executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies in Cotabato City, Philippines

Abhoud Syed M. Lingga is executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies in Cotabato City, Philippines. He holds Master of Arts in Islamic Studies and Master of Arts in Education degrees. He participated in a number of trainings, among which are on conflict prevention and peacebuilding conducted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research; human rights and people’s diplomacy by the Diplomacy Training Program of the University of New South Wales, local government and civil society by Friedrich Naumann Stiftung in Germany, and various trainings on leadership and management. He participated in various sessions of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva.

For some years he had been Associate Professor at the Mindanao State University in Maguindanao and lecturer at Cotabato City State Polytechnic College, Sultan Kudarat Islamic Academy Foundation College, and Mindanao State University Buug College. His research interests are on Bangsamoro self-determination, conflict management, human rights, sustainable development, and Islamic education. As accomplished author and writer, he has published numerous articles in local and international journals and chapters of books.

Prof. Lingga is an active member of various non-government organizations, and has served in management capacities in various public and private sector organizations.

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DR. CRAIG ZELIZER
Senior partner , alliancefor conflict transformation and visiting Asst. Prof., Dept.of Govt., Georgetown university

Craig Zelizer holds a doctorate from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. His dissertation research examined the use of community arts in peacebuilding within Bosnia-Herzegovina. He received a Master of Arts in Society and Politics from Central European University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Thought and Political Economy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Dr. Zelizer is a founding member of the Alliance for Conflict Transformation. His areas of expertise include working with youth from violent conflict regions, civil society development and capacity building in transitional societies, conducting applied research and program evaluation, and mentoring aspiring professionals in the field. To date Craig has worked in over 10 countries, helped train hundreds of individuals in conflict resolution processes and facilitated several long-term dialogue processes He has worked with diverse groups including journalists and young people from Southeastern Europe, young people from Georgia and Abkhazia, Roma populations in several countries, and community groups in the United States.

Craig is also the founder of the ACT Forums one of the premier resources for professionals seeking employment and funding opportunities in the fields of peace and conflict resolution, civil society development, human rights and international education. ACT currently maintains Announcement Forums for individuals seeking jobs, grants and scholarships, and information on conferences and other events. Over 100 organizations and universities throughout the world currently use the forums to recruit entry-level to advanced professional and academic candidates and there are several thousand subscribers from throughout the world. He has helped to advise countless professionals and students on professional and academic opportunities in the field.

He has worked for several international
organizations and taught as an Adjunct Faculty at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He has also received a number of fellowships and awards, including serving as a Fulbright Junior Scholar in Hungary for two years and most recently as a National Security Education Program Fellow in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He speaks several languages including Hungarian, Bosnian and Spanish.

Currently, Craig is a Visiting Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor for the Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution program at in the Department of Government Georgetown University

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DR. DAVID CONNOLLY
Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU) University of York, UK

Dr.David Connolly is a Research Fellow who specializes in the theory and practice of post-war recovery and conflict resolution. He has taught and supervised research on reconstruction reform, governance, international intervention, and research methods at York, the Central European University, and the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale in Milan. David is also the convenor of the annual Chevening Course on Conflict Resolution, which is sponsored by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

With concentrated field experience in Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Northern Ireland and Sierra Leone, practical insight is fundamental to David’s research and teaching. He is currently an academic advisor to the London-based NGO, Tiri, and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the government of Afghanistan, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, and the Community Relations Council, among other organizations.

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PRO.F GEOFF HARRIS
Lecturer and researcher at School of Economics, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa

Geoff Harris is Professor of Economics at the University of Natal, where he is also Director of the Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies Programme. Geoff Harris is a development economist with a particular interest in military expenditure in developing countries. He also directs the university's Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies Programme.

His main research interests concern recovery from war and alternative ways of achieving security. He edited Recovery from Armed Conflict in Developing Countries. An Economic and Political Analysis (Routledge, London, 1999) and jointly edited Building Peace in Bougainville (Centre for Peace Studies, University of New England/ National Research Institute, Papua New Guinea, 1999) harrisg1@ nu.ac.za

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MR. JOHN A.WAGNER
Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service, (FMCS)

John A. Wagner is a professional mediator and conflict managing consultant with forty years of experience. His career began in 1968, in Labor Relations and Human Resources, before joining the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service, (FMCS) in 1973. He served in a number of administrative and managerial positions with the FMCS while continuing to mediate private, public and federal sector collective bargaining disputes, equal employment opportunity complaints, as well as facilitating Regulatory Negotiations. He has trained and lectured to a wide variety of audiences, both domestic and international, including the University of Moscow, and instructed for George Mason University at the Organization of American States.

Mr. Wagner offers a wide variety of conflict managing services which includes
consultation, systems design, training, mediation, facilitation, professional coaching and
evaluation. He has assessed, designed and evaluated conflict managing systems for both
public and private institutions, most notably: the Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of National Affairs, the Federal Elections Commission, the Peace Corps, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and National Aeronautical and Space Administration. He assisted in the design, training, intake and delivery of alternative dispute resolution services for both internal and external complaints procedures at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Mr. Wagner has lectured extensively on design and implementation of conflict management processes. He has been a featured presenter at the Annual Federal Dispute Resolution Conference.

His international work has been devoted to consultation, facilitation, training and
dispute systems design in Europe, Canada, Indonesia, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Since 1995, he has served on the Board of the Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution
at George Mason University. Mr. Wagner has chaired the Arlington Catholic Diocese
Fact Finding Panel and facilitated a number of parish issues.

Mr. Wagner received his B.S. in Political Science from St. Peter’s College and a M.S. in Conflict Management from George Mason University. Currently, he is on the faculty of the Lutheran Colleges Consortium in Arlington, Virginia.

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DR. JUNE PAGADUAN-LOPEZ
M.D. Professor of Psychiatry

June Pagaduan-Lopez (born 1951) has worked for more than three decades in human rights protection, psychosocial intervention and peace advocacy. As a professor at the University of the Philippines (UP) and a psychiatrist, she has helped human rights abuse victims in the Philippines and in other countries and contributed to the development of a more humane approach to medical practice. During the Martial Law regime, she risked arrest and detention and suffered personal and professional persecution because of her activism. She is currently head of the UP Center for Gender and Women’s Studies.

The work of Dr. June Pagaduan-Lopez is well known and respected internationally because of her involvement both in the academe and in global networks that share her advocacy. In the medical profession, she is at the forefront of psychosocial trauma management. She got involved in human rights work as a student activist before and during the Martial Law era. After graduating from medical school in 1976 and having finished her residency in psychiatry in 1979, she helped found the Medical Action Group (MAG), a non-government, cause-oriented organization that provided medical and psychosocial support to victims of human rights abuses of the Marcos regime.

Her work on torture victims resulted in the establishment of the Philippine Action Against Torture. At the UP Medical School, she worked for the implementation of a ten-hour Human Rights Course for Medical Students, the only one of its kind to be mainstreamed into an undergraduate medical curriculum in the country.

A founding member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), she has trained medical practitioners in the detection, management and rehabilitation of torture victims and other survivors of political violence in the Philippines, East Timor, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Kosovo. In East Timor, she managed a nationwide research project on the psychosocial effects of war trauma in coordination with the United Nations Transition Administration (UNTAET). Back in the Philippines, June Lopez decide to implement the East Timor concept in the war-torn regions of Muslim Mindanao. In 2002, using foreign and local government funds, she started “Balik-Kalipay” (Return to Happiness), a psychosocial intervention project for victims of armed conflict. It now covers 15 villages and has trained 46 teachers and more than 200 youth volunteers.

In current and post-conflict communities, community organization, healing and empowerment can be integrated into reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts. Dr. June Lopez has mobilized the academe, government and international institutions and NGOs to help the traumatized sectors in conflict areas. For her work she has received the Leo and Lisl Eitinger Human Rights Award from the University of Oslo in 1991, has bee nominated to the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize as one of the One Thousand Peace Women of the World and given the 2007 Most Outstanding Psychiatrist for Community Service Award by the Philippine Psychiatric Association.

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MR.MIRSAD MIKI JACEVIC
Bosnia Program Director

Miki is a human rights activist and peace program specialist from Sarajevo, Bosnia Hercegovina. He is a co-founder of Global Youth Connect and organized GYC’s first delegation to Bosnia in the summer of 2006. In addition, Miki works full-time as a senior policy officer at Women Waging Peace where he oversees policy efforts aimed at including women in formal and informal peace processes. Before the war in Bosnia, Miki headed the UN Youth Chapter and was president of the local committee of AIESEC, the largest student association in the world. During the war, he was involved in numerous projects to ease the suffering of youth and the elderly. In 1994, he founded and directed Collegium Bosniacum, an organization of Bosnian students in Europe. Out of that work grew the initiative, Academic Lifeline for Bosnia Hercegovina, which aimed at rebuilding the country's academic institutions. In 1995, Miki headed the Vienna office of the World University Service, dealing with education issues in troubled regions. During this time, he also lived and worked in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Palestine, and Central American countries. Miki has consulted with many conflict resolution organizations, including Search for Common Ground, where he led efforts to develop child soldiers programs. He has led several delegations of international activists and conflict resolution practitioners to various post-conflict settings, including the Balkans, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Guatemala. He has served on the Board of Directors of several organizations, including the KARUNA Center for Peacebuilding, Global Youth Action, Sustaining the Soul that Serves, State of the World Forum, and others. He has been honored with numerous awards, including the Fetzer Institute Fellowship, Rotary International Scholarship, Soros Foundation Scholarship, State of the World Forum ChangeMaker award 1999, and honorary President of the Bosnian Student Union. Miki holds a Master of Science degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. He teaches in the Conflict Transformation Across Cultures Program, (CONTACT) Summer Peace building Institute at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont, and is an associate faculty member for the Trauma and Conflict Program at Prescott Collage in Arizona. He is married to Guatemalan human rights activist Eva Morales, and they live with their two children in the Washington, DC area.

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MR. PETER J. BRYAN SWANSON
Senior partner, carr swanson & randolph, llc
Mr. Swanson has 20 years experience in the fields of mediation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, organizational development and culture change efforts, facilitation, negotiation, dispute resolution and leadership development including serving 7 years as senior partner in the consulting firm of Carr Swanson & Randolph, and 12 years with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS). While at FMCS he was responsible for developing and providing a wide range of mediation, facilitation, training, and dispute systems design services in the United States and abroad. He has worked extensively with organized labor and trade unions both domestically and abroad in the areas of mediation, negotiation, training and strategic planning. Throughout his career Mr. Swanson has worked with nearly 50 Federal, State and local agencies as well as trained nearly 3,000 mediators, leaders and negotiators. In addition to his extensive domestic practice, he is actively involved in international work, having provided dispute resolution and negotiation services, training and assistance in 15 countries. Mr. Swanson has a Masters degree in Conflict Management as well as an undergraduate degree in cultural anthropology, both from George Mason University.
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VEN. PAISARN VISALO
Abbot of Wat Pa Sutako, Temple in Kaengkhlor District,Chaiyapoom Province

Phra Paisarn, or Paisarn Wongworawisith as his former name, was born in May 10, 1957. He started his primary and high school education at Assumption School before his graduation in 1980 with the Bachelor of Arts from Thammasart University Thailand.

In 1983, he went into priesthood at Wat Thong Noppakun, Bangkok then moved to Wat Sa Nam Nai for his Dharma practice. At the present time, Phra Paisarn is the abbot at Wat Pa Sukato. He is also the chairman of many foundations and institutions such as the chairman of Komol Keemthong Foundation, the chairman of Thai Holistic Heath Foundation, the chairman of Peace Way Foundation, the chairman of the Institute for Peace studies at Khonkhan University and the independent chairman of the National Reconciliation Commission also.

Phra Paisarn is a thinker and an experienced writer as well. His writing works make him a writer, a coordinating writer, a translator, a coordinating translator, an editor and a coordinating editor. He is an activist and his views are requested by many magazines and journals.

His talent to combine and to explain Buddhist knowledge in a clear and practical dimension is outstanding. Phra Paisarn can illustrate life phenomena and Dharma principles explicitly and concretely causing many people to realize the importance of Dharma which should be studied and practiced. He is also involved in activities to preserve the environment and build harmony between man and nature (please refer to Bangkok post article).

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DR. OLIVER RICHMOND
School of internation relations university of st. andrews

Oliver Richmond's primary area of expertise is in peace and conflict theory, and in particular its interlinkages with IR theory. He is interested in how critical approaches to international theory impact upon debates about conflict and peace, and has recently finished a book project on concepts of peace and their implicit usages in IR theory (Peace in IR, Routledge, forthcoming 2008). He also published "The Transformation of Peace" in 2005. This was funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship and examined the conceptualisation of peace, and in particular the construction of the 'liberal peace', in post- conflict zones.
He is currently co-directing projects on 'Liberal Peace Transitions' (funded by the Carnegie Trust), Orthodox Terrorism and Liberal Peacebuilding (funded by the British Academy), and 'Rethinking the Liberal Peace' (funded by the UN University and University of St Andrews). He is also involved with a PRIO project on the 'Ethics of Liberal Peace'. He has been involved in fieldwork in Cyprus and Turkey, Kosovo, Bosnia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Nepal and Kashmir, as well as in the Eastern Congo region. He is also on the editorial team of the Review of International Studies.
He directs the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, which houses the 'Liberal Peace Transitions' and 'Orthodox Terrorism and Liberal Peace' projects, mentioned above. This centre is the first of its kind in Scotland, and aims to stimulate and facilitate new thinking in theoretical and empirical terms in the area of peace and conflict studies. The centre's research projects, conducted by Oliver Richmond and by the centre's full time research fellow, Dr. Jason Franks, involves theoretical and comparative fieldwork in a number of post-conflict peacebuilding sites. The centre also hosts a number of other projects, Phd students, and an Mlitt programme in Peace and Conflict Studies.
Finally, he edits a Palgrave Book Series called Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, which seeks to provide a forum for the development of new and alternative approaches for understanding the dynamics of conflict and of the construction of peace.

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MR.JEHAN PERERA
Executive Director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka (NPCSL)

Mr.Jehan Perera is presently the Executive Director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka (NPCSL).  He is also a columnist for the national newspapers, writing in both the English and Sinhala language media, focusing on the ethnic conflict and inter-ethnic relations.  He is also quoted in the international media.  He has been awarded two international peace prizes, the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti National Award for Peace, Tolerance and Harmony 2006 by the Inter Faith Harmony Foundation of India and the Nonviolence Award 2007 by the Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation.

In his work with NPCSL, Jehan Perera has traveled extensively throughout the country, addressing seminars and public meetings, and advocating a negotiated political settlement between the government and LTTE based on principles of federalism and power sharing with the ethnic minorities.  He has traveled extensively to the conflict areas, in both peace time and times of war, by land, air and ship.

He has met several times with LTTE leaders in the areas controlled by them, both during times when they were a banned organization in Sri Lanka and during the time of the peace process.  He has also addressed a public meeting in Kilinochchi in 2005, the administrative capital of the LTTE at the invitation of the LTTE on the issue of human rights.  In addition, together with NPCSL, he has led delegations of journalists and editors to meet with the LTTE and gain an exposure to LTTE-controlled areas.

However, most of his work has been in the Sinhalese areas, where resistance to a negotiated settlement with the LTTE has been greatest.  Over the past decade he has met with hundreds of community groups and addressed seminars and other educational programmes, seeking to give Sinhalese opinion leaders and community leaders a greater awareness of the aspirations and grievances of the ethnic minorities.

Prior to working with NPCSL, Jehan Perera worked with the Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka from 1988 to 1995.  He joined the Sarvodaya Movement soon after returning from the United States, where he had obtained a Juris Doctor (Doctor of Law) degree from Harvard Law School in 1987, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Harvard College.  In the US, he read on Mahatma Gandhi, and was inspired by his non violent philosophy and desire to seek the upliftment of all, and not only a majority or minority.  The Sarvodaya Movement offered a vehicle to transform these ideas into reality.

During the period at Sarvodaya, Jehan Perera worked closely with Sarvodaya leader Dr A T Ariyaratne and edited the organisation’s English language publications.  In addition he was the director of the Sarvodaya Legal Aid Services, creating a network of volunteer lawyers throughout the country who would assist the poorest section of the people.  While at Sarvodaya, he also was part of an effort to train Buddhist monks in the principles of conflict resolution and the ethnic conflict.  It was as Sarvodaya’s representative to the Inter Religious Core Group in 1994, that he helped to establish the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka.  He continues to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sarvodaya Legal Services Movement.


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REV.RAY HELMICK
Instructor in Conflict Resolution at Boston Collegeand Senior Associate in the Program in Preventive Diplomacy
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.

Raymond G. Helmick, S.J., Instructor in Conflict Resolution, Department of Theology, Boston College, has worked extensively in mediation. He has been involved in Northern Ireland since 1972, with the Kurds of Iraq since 1973, with the Lebanese factionssince 1982, with Israelis and Palestinians since 1985, with the Kurds of Turkey since 1992, and with the various Balkan countries since1995. He mediated negotiations between the IRA Army Council andthe Northern Ireland Office for six weeks during the hunger strike of 1981.
Father Helmick also was invited to the White House for the 1993 signing of the peace accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. He joined the Reverend Jesse Jackson in his 1999 mission to Belgrade for the release of three imprisoned American soldiers and the reopening of diplomacy in a tense political situation.
He is a founder and executive board member of the U.S. Interreligious
Committee for Peace in the Middle East and Senior Associate of the Program in Preventive Diplomacy at the Center for Strategicand International Studies. He is the author and editor of numerous books, monographs, and articles including Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy, and Conflict Transformation (with Rodney L. Petersen) and Negotiating Outside the Law: Why Camp David Failed.
Father Helmick started the discussion by describing Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 8, .Develop a Global Partnership for Development,. which he believes is one of the most ambitious MDGs, with its staggering set of targets: developing an open, rulebased, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system; addressing the special needs of the least developed countries, including tariff and quota-free access for least developed countries. exports, an enhanced program of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries and cancellation of official bilateral debt; addressing particularly the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island
developing States; and dealing comprehensively with the debt problems
of developing countries through national and international measures.

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DR. HAMDI MULUK
Department of psychology
University of Indonesia
Dr. Hamdi Muluk is a senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology at University of Indonesia. His current position is Coordinator for Master and Doctoral program, Graduate program at department of Psychology in University of Indonesia. He obtained his PhD in Political Psychology from University of Indonesia in July 2004. His dissertation dealt with the role of collective memory in community reconciliation after political repression. His research interests are mainly in the topics of social & political psychology and peace psychology, such as: terrorism, prejudice, voting behavior, and conflict resolution. With the eruption of social conflict recently in Indonesia, he actively joined in conflict resolution effort on helping the Baku Movement and Indonesian Peace Building institute in ensuing to the peace building in Indonesia. He also served as the associate at the Centre for Research on Inter-group Relations and Conflict Resolution (CERIC) (http://www.ceric-fisip.ui.ac.id/eng) at University of Indonesia.
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BHIKKHUNI DHAMMA NANDHA
Wat Shongdhamkalayani ,
Nakhonpathom, Thailand

Bhikkhuna Dhamma Nandha, or Associate Professor Chatsumal Khabilsingha as formerly, graduated primary education from Rajini Bon School then continued her bachelor degree in Philosophy at Santi Niketan ,India. With her first class-honored degree, she got the Canadian Government scholarship to study the Master of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Philosophy degree. With this notable opportunity, her Ph. D. thesis ‘Comparison Study on Bhikkhuni Pahtimohk’ was published in English in 1981.
Assoc. Prof. Chatsumal started her teaching career at McMaster University, Canada in 1969 and backed to Thailand as a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Thammasat University from 1973- 2000. During that time, she was also well-known as an advisor for master degree students and Ph. D. students from Thammasat University, Mahidol University, Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist University, etc.
With expertise in issues between women, religion and environment, Assoc. Prof. Chatsumal was often invited to many leading international conferences becoming a well-known person among religion scholars.
Her experiences were published in a famous Thailand Weekly Newspaper, Matichon Sud Sabda, in ‘Dhamma Leela’ (Dhamma Style) column. Her publications released in varied style such as academic research, dhamma documentary, Mahayana Sutra Translation and Dalai Lama’s books and article translation.
Moreover, she was also a founder of Ban Santi Raksa Foundation provided help for women and children, promoted them opportunities for a better life quality.
Having a remarkable rhetoric, Assoc. Prof. Chatsumal expresses her standing point bravely, impressively and clearly making her a host in Dhamma Television Show ‘Cheewit Mai Sin wang’ (There is always hope) from 1994-2000. The show was awarded as The Best Dhamma Television Show for 2 years continuously.
Assoc. Prof. Chatsumal ordained as a bhikkuni and had been known as ‘Dhamma Nandha”

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DR.ROSALIA SCIORTINO
Institute of Population and Social Research (IPSR),
Mahidol University
Dr. Sciortino, a cultural an-thropologist and development sociologist by training, is currently Associate Professor at the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand. For the past six years, she has been the Director, Southeast Asia Regional Program and Regional Representative of the Rockefeller Foundation Regional Office in Thailand overseeing grant-making activities in the region. Previously from 1993 to 2001 she worked as program officer Human Development and Reproductive Health at the Ford Foundation in Indonesia and the Philippines. She has done research in various South-east Asian countries. Her PhD research on health policy and implementation in Indo-nesia, later published with the title “Care-takers of Cure”, earned honors (cum laude) at the Free University, Amsterdam for the innovative application of ethnographic methods to draw out the complexity of development efforts. She has published widely on a range of issues related to development, including topics related to migration, public health, gender and regional integration in the Greater Mekong Sub-region. Since January she writes a monthly column for Inter-Press Services entitled "Mekong Currents" (www.newsmekong.org/mekong_currents).
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