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 Second International Conference on Human Rights and Peace and Conflict in Southeast Asia!

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With the First International Conference on Human Rights in Southeast Asia, the Southeast Asian Human Rights Studies Network (SEAHRN) aimed to provide a venue to explore critical contributions by researchers and scholars in deepening the understanding of human rights-based framework and actual issues through in-depth engagement with localized sites within the region. The first conference was attended by nearly five hundred participants and more than one hundred papers were presented during the event.

Through the conference, scholars and activists were invited to reflexively addressed the dynamic changes happening in Southeast Asia and as a result, defied the culture of silence by engaging in discussions and debates on the dialectics of human rights, peace and conflict in the region. One of the main aspirations of the Southeast Asian Human Rights Studies Network (SEAHRN) is to motivate and support scholars, researchers and activists in contributing to the production of knowledge on human, peace and conflict studies in Southeast Asia and this project will open up space for continued dialogue and exchange of knowledge. The Second International Conference on Human Rights and Peace & Conflict would certainly contribute to ensuring a dynamic and vigorous debate on contemporary human rights in the Southeast Asian region.

The Second International Conference on Human Rights and Peace & Conflict in Southeast Asia aims to:

1.Provide a venue for the sharing and dissemination of academic and practical researches on human rights and peace and conflict in Southeast Asia;

2.Promote knowledge and skills among human rights and peace and studies scholars and activists to strengthen indigenous knowledge on human rights and peace and conflict in Southeast Asia;

3.Open up space for dialogue and networking among academics, researchers, postgraduate students, and members of civil society organizations and government and inter-government agency representatives who work on the research and greater understanding of human rights in Southeast Asia.

POSSIBLE THEMES

1. Academic Freedom

2. Universality and particularity of Human Rights

3. Individual and Collective Rights

4. Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights

5. Rights of Vulnerable and Marginalized groups

6. Peace, Conflict, Security and Human Rights

7. Challenges to Human Rights in Southeast Asia

8. Media, Advocacy and Popularization of Human Rights

9. Business and Human Rights

10. Human Rights, Climate Change and Natural Disaster

11. Human Security and Human Development

12. Human rights and Corruption

13. Migration