ASEAN Women For Peace Registry (AWPR)

Staff Officer 1 Legal Unit-Judge Advocate General’s Office (JAG)
Directorate of Personnel, Ministry of Defense of Brunei Darussalam

Expertise:
Mediation, Education and Research, Policy-Making, Capacity Building, Disarmament, Demobilization of Combatants, Reintegration of Combatants, Program Monitoring and Evaluation, Networking and Liaison

Under-Secretary of State
Ministry of Womens Affairs

Expertise:
Mediation; Policy Making; Capacity Building; Healing and Reconciliation; Community Social cohesion; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization; Networking and Liaison

Deputy Director-General
National Center for Peacekeeping Force

Expertise:
Mediation; Education and Research; Capacity Building; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization; Networking and Liaison

Deputy National Police Commissioner, National Police Commissioner, Ministry of Interior

Mediator
Mediators Beyond Borders International

Expertise:
Mediation; Education and Research; Policy Making; Capacity Building; Disarmament, Demobilization of combatants; Reintegration of combatants; Healing and Reconciliation; Community Social cohesion; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization; Networking and Liaison

Managing Director
Indika Foundation

Initiator and Co-Founder
Sabang Merauke and Milenial Islami

Expertise:
Education and Research; Policy Making; Capacity Building; Healing and Reconciliation; Community Social cohesion; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Crossculture student exchange programs, Peaceful Islam, Peace education curriculum development, critical thinking education

Deputy Director-General of ASEAN Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR

Expertise:
Policy Making; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Networking and Liaison (particularly with the Lao Womens Union and other similar institutions)

Deputy Director-General
Lao Womens Union

Expertise:
Mediation; Capacity Building; Community Social cohesion; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization (coordinating with UN agencies, International NGOs, CSOs); Networking and Liaison

Deputy Director
Institute of Foreign Affairs

Expertise:
Capacity Building; Community Social cohesion; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization; Networking and Liaison

Ethnography & Development Research Cluster Head, Borneo Institute for Indigenous Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Dr. Ayesah Uy Abubakar is the head of the Research Cluster on Ethnography & Development at the Borneo Institute for Indigenous Studies (BorIIS) in Universiti Malaysia Sabah. She is a senior lecturer at the International Relations Programme of the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Arts & Heritage at the same university. Dr. Ayesah teaches human rights, international humanitarian law, and peace and development among many others. This 2019, she has published a book on Peacebuilding and Sustainable Human Development: The Pursuit of the Bangsamoro Right to Self Determination, co-published by Springer and UMS Press. She also co-authored a chapter on Mindanao in a book called, Comparing Peace Process, edited by McGinty & Ozerdem, published by Routledge, 2019.

In 2014, Dr. Ayesah was a recipient of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Presidential Award for her work on peacebuilding in Southeast Asia. From 2006 to 2014, Dr. Ayesah is among the three architects of a track 1.5 peacebuilding program called Consolidation for Peace for Southern Thailand, Aceh and Mindanao, a program by the Research & Education for Peace, Universiti Sains Malaysia (REPUSM), Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network (SEACSN) and JICA.

Dr. Ayesah completed her PhD in Social Sciences (Development Studies) at Universiti Sains Malaysia (2013). She obtained a Master in Development Management at the Asian Institute of Management (2002) and a Certificate in Inter-cultural Management-American Focused Management from the Japan America Institute of Management Science (1999). She received her Bachelor of Arts in Film and Audio-Visual Communication from the College of Mass Communication at the University of the Philippines in Diliman (1995).

Expertise:
Education and Research; Capacity Building; Networking and Liaison.

Coordinator for Community
Mediation Programme Department of Unity and National Integration

Co-founder and Director
Payong Organization

Representative of Pyithu Hluttaw
Parliament

Expertise:
Mediation; Policy Making; Community Social cohesion; Networking and Liaison Dr. Wah Wah

Director-General
Central Statistical Organization, Ministry of Planning and Finance

Expertise:
Education and Research; Policy Making; Capacity Building; Healing and Reconciliation; Community Social cohesion; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization; Networking and Liaison

Director-General of the Department of Social Welfare

Expertise:
Policy Making; Capacity Building; Healing and Reconciliation; Community Social cohesion; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization; Networking and Liaison

Former Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process

Expertise:
Mediation; Policy Making; Capacity Building; Community Social cohesion; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization; Networking and Liaison

Expertise:
Mediation; Education and Research; Policy Making; Capacity Building; Disarmament, Demobilization of combatants; Reintegration of combatants; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization; Networking and Liaison

Amina Rasul-Bernardo is the President of the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy. She is a member of the Board of Regents of Mindanao State University. One of the leading Muslim leaders in the Philippines working to strengthen peace and development as well as promote human rights, justice and democratic practices in Muslim Mindanao, she has spearheaded the organizing and capacity-building of Muslim women, particularly those who teach in the madrasah, for peace-building and prevention of violent extremism. Her efforts led to the establishment of the Noorus Salam (Light of Peace), an organization of Muslim women active in Mindanao and Muslim communities in Metro Manila. She has developed an Islamic peace education program in cooperation with Muslim religious leaders.

She has been a Trustee and Vice-Chair of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation.

She has written & edited several books on the Mindanao conflict, Islam, and democracy such as Broken Peace? Assessing the 1996 GRP-MNLF Final Peace Agreement and The Radicalization of Muslim Communities in Southeast Asia.

She was a member of the Philippine cabinet under former president Fidel V. Ramos, serving as Presidential Advisor on Youth Affairs and appointed concurrently as the first chair of the National Youth Commission (NYC), which she organized. In addition, she has served as Commissioner of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women, representing Muslims; as a board member of the Philippine National Oil Corporation (PNOC) and the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP); and as founding director of the Local Government Guarantee Corporation (LGGC). She was a member of the Board of the Mindanao Development Authority.

She was a UN PEACE awardee for 2019. In 2007, she received the Muslim Democrat of the Year Award from the Washington, DC-based Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) and is recognized as one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Foundation of Jordan.

She holds a bachelors degree in economics from the University of the Philippines, an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, and a masters in public administration from Harvards Kennedy School of Government.

Lead Researcher (Socio-Cultural)
ASEAN Studies Center, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Expertise:
Education and Research; Policy Making (Research outputs helped to inform or influence policy, but did not have a direct or immediate input to policy making per se); Capacity Building; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization (Not directly relevant but research outputs can become advisory inputs to potential or interested donors); Networking and Liaison; Human security norms discussion/ identification

Research Fellow
Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Expertise:
Education and Research; Policy Making (Research outputs helped to inform or influence policy, but did not have a direct or immediate input to policy making per se); Capacity Building; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Resource / Fund Mobilization (Not directly relevant but research outputs can become advisory inputs to potential or interested donors); Networking and Liaison

Former Ambassador/former Dean
Devawongse Varopakarn Institute of Foreign AffairsMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand

Expertise:
Education and Research; Policy Making

Lecturer
School of Languages and General Education, Walailak University, Thailand

Expertise:
Education and Research (Ethnography); Capacity Building; Networking and Liaison

Lecturer
Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand

Expertise:
Education and Research; Capacity Building; Networking and Liaison; Program monitoring and evaluation; Cross-community peacebuilding

Ambassador / Senior Advisor
Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam

Expertise:
Policy Making

Ambassador / Professor
Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam

Expertise:
Education and Research; Policy Making; Community Social cohesion

Professor

Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam

Expertise:
Education and Research