alexandre.barthel irasec.com
Alexandre Barthel is a doctor in history (University of Caen, France) and a researcher at the Institute of Asian Studies (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand).
His research focuses on the political history of Laos and Thailand in the 20th century : history of the Lao Itsara and Viet Minh movements in Thailand (1945-1950), history of the political opposition in Northeast Thailand (1954-1965), and history of the origins of the Cold War in Thailand (1920-1950). (...)

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lois.bastide irasec.com
Loïs Bastide holds a doctorate in sociology from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He is a lecturer in sociology at the University of French Polynesia where he was director of the Department of Letters, Languages and Humanities from 2018 to 2020. He is an associate researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme du Pacifique (UAR 2503) where, since 2017, he has been leading the research programme "Seizing social change in (...)

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Julius BAUTISTA is Associate Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He received his PhD in Southeast Asian Studies (anthropology and cultural history focus) at the Australian National University, and has subsequently published on religious practice in Asia, with a focus on Christian iconography, religious rituals, and the relationship between religion and the state. He is author of Figuring Catholicism: An Ethnohistory of the Santo (...)

julie.bernath swisspeace.ch
Dr. Julie BERNATH is a senior researcher in the Dealing with the Past Program at the peace research institute swisspeace, and an affiliated researcher at the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC). She has conducted research on transitional justice and international interventions in Cambodia, and previously worked at the ECCC. Together with colleagues, she conducted a large-scale study on victim participation at the ECCC. She has published (...)

Dr. Didier Bertrand is a French scholar (PhD in Cultural Psychology, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France). Since 2004, he has been being the National Coordinator for AFESIP-Laos, a local NGO working to assist victims of human trafficking and prostitution. He spent several years conducting investigations in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, and has published a number of scientific articles and book chapters related to Southeast Asian studies, psychology, inter-culturalism, traditional (...)

Prof. Philippe Bessoles is a French Clinical Psychopathologist (PhD) and the Head of Clinical Masters in Victimology and Criminology at the University Pierre Mendès- France (Grenoble, France). He authored several books on victimology, rape, trauma, domestic violence and psycho-criminology : Le Déjà-là de la Mort et du Sexuel (St Maximin, Théétète, 1995, reprint 2003), Le Meurtre du Féminin. Clinique du Viol (St Maximin, Théétète, 2000), Le Meurtre du Féminin. Témoigner, Transmettre (St Maximin, (...)

Dr. Gilles Beullier is a French (M.D.), Paediatrician and Victimologist, with the Gabriel Martin Hospital Centre (St-Paul, La Réunion, France). A fellow of the “Comité de Pilotage de l’Unité régionale de Victimologie de La Réunion”, he has been developing the hospital’s capacity to welcome and take charge of sexually abused children. As a member of the Réseau Asie “French-speaking experts network on Asia”, French National Center for Scientific Research, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Paris, and (...)

francois-xavier.bonnet irasec.com
François-Xavier Bonnet is a geographer, doctoral student at the French Institute of Geopolitics (University of Paris VIII). His thesis focuses on the interconnections between clan conflicts (rido) and Muslim insurgencies on the island of Mindanao. He is the author of three chapters in the contemporary Philippine national monograph under the direction of Willam Guéraiche, to be published in the Savant Indies. He is also the author of several articles on (...)

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Thitisak BOONPRAMOTE is assistant professor at the Department of Mining and Petroleum Engineering of Chulalongkorn University. He passed a phD of Mineral Economics at the Colorado School of Mines.
His research interest are : mining industry economics, energy degradation , Waste, the environment and natural resources , Industrial project evaluation , Risk analysis of industrial investment projects. (...)

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Kunnawut Boonreak is a PhD student in Social Sciences at Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He earned his MA in Social Sciences and Development from Chiang Mai University, through the partial scholarship of SEASREP Foundation. He is also a journalist and ethnographic filmmaker concerning ethnic minorities and transnational migrants. His research interests include Muslim minority from Myanmar in transnational context of migration. (...)