Leadership

Dr. Suphatmet Yunyasit

Titles
Secretary-General, Religions for Peace Interreligious Council of Thailand; Human Rights and Peace Studies, Faculty, Mahidol University, Thailand
Buddhist, THAILAND
Dr. Suphatmet Yunyasit is a lecturer in the field of conflict and peace studies, Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies (IHRP), Mahidol University, Thailand.

She is also currently served as Secretary-General, Religions for Peace-Interreligious Council of Thailand (RfP-IRC). She started her work on conflict transformation and peacebuilding in 2012 after graduated with a Ph.D in Anthropology with focus on ethno-religious minority group’s struggle to preserve identity and build community. Working at IHRP and serving as Secretary General of RfP Thailand, she has organized and facilitated intra and interreligious dialogues designed for conflict transformation and relationship building between conflicting parties in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces. Her current project focuses on the participation and roles of the Buddhists of the South in conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Her research interests and expertise include conflict transformation in Thailand and Southeast Asian contexts, inter-ethnic/religious and majority-minority interaction in multicultural society, freedom of religion or belief (FoRB), and cultural rights of minority groups. She is the author of The Siamese of Malaysia: Linkage of Two Lands.

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